Daily ticket stories
On January 17th, 1987 I huddled in the cold with my back pressed up against the front door of the Moncton Coliseum. I arrived two, maybe three hours early for the show and was among the first in line to get in. Back then I was a rail-hugger…
On January 15th, 1997 I drove to Montreal to see Tricky at the Spectrum. A hard-grinding rap artist like Tricky would normally have been well off of my radar but I was dating a girl with a very good, eclectic musical foundation that she eagerly shared with me…
I had seen Phish play thirty-one times without hearing them play Llama…
My first experience with Lyle Lovett dropped my jaw…
On February 4th, 2011 m’lady and I were just starting to dig into our America-crossing musical treasure hunt…
On January 26th, 2015 I went to see Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen at the Maple Leaf Bar. It was my first experience with both the band and the bar and I can report that both are exceptional and neither should be missed…
My 2010 interview with Joel Plaskett as the former Thrush Hermit frontman set out tour yet another solo album, this time a three-record set.
(reprinted courtesy of Soundproofmagazine, May 31, 2010)
Back in the mid-’90’s I was part of a really interesting Ottawa freakrock band called Bob Loblaw. In 1996 we rented some recording equipment, set it up in the living room, and spent an intense week creating our only album – Monkey Do – which we released on cassette. For the record, Arrested Development didn’t start airing until 2003.
This pending hit song is a tribute to Pumpkin, a rough-and-tumble tabby who died of feline AIDS long ago, and is performed by puppets.
On January 18th, 2020 the biggest snowstorm to ever hit Newfoundland was just finishing up and I found myself holed up at my mother’s winter home in New Port Richey, Florida for a week longer than I intended to visit as the crews busily worked to reopen the St. John’s airport…
Todd Man Out 