Playlist 09/07/26

Desolation Wilderness/ No Tomorrow b/w Pacific Palisades/ No Tomorrow
Vibrarians/ Vibrarians/ The Woods
LAKE/ Let's Build a Roof/ Madagascar
My Friend Wallis/ When the Blue Turned Yellow/ That Little Dream
No Gold/ unreleased/ Hot Bay
'It It/ Hang Out/ Ontario Girls
Colourbook/ Colourbook/ Spout/Bec
Defektors/ No to the Nite b/w Torn to Pieces/ Torn to Pieces
Petroleum By-Products/ Emergency Room Vol. 1/ Rat Face
Vapid/ Emergency Room Vol. 1/ Sex Stain
White Lung/ Emergency Room Vol. 1/ Therapy
Pony Up!/ Pony Up!/ Matthew Modine
The Organ/ Grab That Gun/ Brother
The Jaywalkers/ Try a Little Sunshine/ (You Can't Be) Happy All the Time
Nicholas Krgovich/ In the Yard, Havin' Fun/ Pearl Divers
Knots/ The Blistering Sun, the Pale Moon, Hahahaha/ Woodsmoke

Pretty fun show! Nice to see Ming Hudson! xoxoxo!

Camera jam!

This video rooooolz.

Gumdrops absence, last Carload of Whatever

Emma Cochrane, our well-traveled and highly intelligent Women's Radio Collective Coordinator, will be filling in for me on G&L this Sunday July 19th.

Please stay tuned to the program following my regular slot, as it will be Ryan Ferko's last episode of Carload of Whatever.



I said a sort of farewell on the air last week, but I would like to reiterate my sentiments dans le blog: the Ferks is the story I will tell my grandchildren some day.

Reasons:
1) Witnessing a 3 year evolution of Carloads from its first day until its second-to-last.
2) The Bicycles show in a courtroom in the old provincial courthouse aka the Maritime Museum of British Columbia.
3) Andrea & Ryan Presents... in general. I am happy that every show was all-ages, and that we found some new venues. Lots of stress was mixed in with the fun, but I think we learned a lot.
4) Visiting Mississauga/ Toronto and staying at la maison de Ferko on a murphy bed. Ryan driving the red Durango. The largest church garage sale in southern Ontario.
5) Witnessing the early days of Old Life from the outside. In particular this priceless interview. So good on both sides of the equation.
6) Ryan + beerz + Pit

SEE YA IN TORONTOES IN JANUARY, FERKS.

Playlist 09/07/12

Jon-Rae Fletcher/ Now Then/ Bird on the Wrong Side of a Window
Jon-Rae Fletcher/ Oh, Maria/ No Dancing
The Bruce Peninsula/ A Mountain is a Mouth/ Steamroller
Cobras Cobras Cobras/ The Third Old Life Compilation/ Commandon't
Ruthie and Winfield/ Rough Bubba Trauna/ City Calling Stephen J. Nash
My Friend Wallis/ When the Blue Turned Yellow/ Running
Gregory Pepper & His Problems/ With Trumpets Flaring/ Tea Biscuits
Nathan and the Noise/ Get Out of Your Basement/ You're the One
Malcolm Middleton/ Waxing Gibbous/ Ballad of Fuck All
The Lucksmiths/ Green Bicycle Case/ Two Storeys
Desolation Wilderness/ No Tomorrows b/w Pacific Palisades/ Pacific Palisades
Grouper/ Dragging a Dead Dear Up a Hill/ Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
Phil Elverum & Nick Krgovich/ David Shrigley's Worried Noodles/ Whatcha Doin'
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone with Dear Nora/ Advance Base Battery Life/ Hot Boyz

Playlist 09/07/05

The Magnetic Fields/ Holiday/ Take Ecstasy With Me
Doug Hoyer/ Busy Busy Busy/ Teenage Romance
The Endless Bummer/ No Beach Out of Reach/ Southern California
Bubblegum Lemonade/ Doubleplusgood/ I'll Never Be Yours
Crystal Stilts/ Alight of Night/ Verdant Gaze
Brighter/ Disney/ British Summertime
Belle & Sebastian/ I'm Waking Up to Us/ Marx & Engels
God Help the Girl/ God Help the Girl/ Pretty Eve in the Tub
The Left Banke/ Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina/ Pretty Ballerina
Butcher Boy/ Profit in Your Poetry/ Profit In Your Poetry
Cats on Fire/ Our Temperance Movement/ Letters From a Voyage to Sweden
Hormones in Abundance/ (floating around the internet but officially unreleased?)/ Silent Obligations
Dear Nora/ Three States/ Second Birthday
My Friend Wallis live on-air: "Running", "In the Winter", "Free Day"
My Friend Wallis/ When the Blue Turned Yellow/ On a Vacation
Kimkio/ En Az Iki/ En Falza Sekiz/ Dogru
P:ano/ The Den/ After School Special
Candles/ The Second Old Life Compilation/ Follow the Leader
Blank/ The Third Old Life Compilation/ Tripe

Thanks My Friend Wallis and Almonds, Cohen for dropping by the station and doing a live studio session with us! It was a lot of fun, and I think it sounded great. Hopefully, the complete studio sessions and interviews will be uploaded to the UVic website as a podcast later this month. Perhaps you will also be able to hear this edition of Sunday Surprise on campus stations across the country if we decide to share the show with them. Thanks Donald from CFUV program We Are Ugly but We Have the Music and the now famous Burger Blog for providing extra production support.

I should also review the Pterodactyl Sneak Attack Productions show since I'm blogging about Sunday already. Iji (Seattle) and Watercolor Paintings (Santa Barbara) visited the island and joined Almonds, Cohen and Ruthie and Winfield for a show at the Bayanihan Centre. Ruthie and Winfield played really well, despite their lack of violin. I actually liked the synth substitute--you folks should keep it! Pick up their new CD, Rough Bubba Trauna; it looks and sounds awesome. Watercolor Paintings gave us the first non-picnic sit-down set Victoria has seen for awhile. (I can't remember sitting down since Second Story or old Fifty-Fifty days, but perhaps that's just because I never actually sit down at shows anymore because I'm always running around getting stressed out or feeding off of Cody's stress.) I thought they were pretty good, but I was a little surprised that I wasn't more into it. A few years ago, I might have been absolutely thrilled that Rebecca and her brother Josh--that guy with the familiar face and radio show--were here in Victoria; however, 2008 brought me so many bands that are ripping off the C86 cute-but-still-with-a-punk-rock-edge thing (which I like way more) that I haven't felt a need to listen to stuff that's only cute without being particularly witty or snarky to get my pop fix. In this way, Watercolor Paintings felt like a blast from my personal musicology past. Still, how can you really go wrong with a brother-sister band that plays baritone ukulele and celtic harp? Iji was fun, but really loud, and the group screaming ("aah!") was a little brusque after the gentle Watercolor Paintings. The singer actually has a really sweet indiepop voice, though, and I'm glad they rocked out a little. This band also featured some indie pop celebrities: Chris from Indiepages, who was wearing an Eric's Trip shirt chosen specially for his visit to Canada I'm sure, and Jon Manning of Lost Sound Tapes. I don't feel like I can properly comment on Almonds, Cohen, because I hear them jamming so often in my living room. Largely, this concert was a huge geekfest--a comforting, DIY geekfest. Lost Sound Tapes had all their merchandise for sale, including the Endless Bummer's Donald Fagen Mix Tape.

It was a busy Sunday, a busy weekend, and a busy week. So it's no surprise that I'm sick now, but getting better. Also, the eczema on my hands is flaring up, so I just swallowed a spoonful of hemp oil because it's supposed to help my cell membranes or something? Eugh. Swallowing oil feels so gross...

Live over the airwaves of Sunday Surprise: My Friend Wallis and Almonds, Cohen

Sunday, July 5th Gumdrops & Lollipops and Carload of Whatever are hosting two bands: My Friend Wallis (Crystal who also plays in Vincat) and Almonds, Cohen (Brock who also plays in Colourbook/ 'It It). We hope it will be a blast--and how could it not be? Be sure to tune in for the full three hours of Sunday Surprise from 2-5pm PST.

My Friend Wallis will be promoting a newly released CD. You can catch Crystal and friends live and in-person tomorrow at 9pm at the opening of Studio 16 (the otherwise nameless place beneath Studio 16 1/2 in Fan Tan Alley). Old Life kidz 'It It will also be playing, as will Himalayan Bear. And you can see some nice art on the walls--cause it's a gallery, after all.

Almonds, Cohen plays a concert following their radio performance at the Bayanihan Centre on Blanshard near Fisgard. Iji and Watercolor Paintings--two American bands who nearly played here last year--will share their cute lo-fi sounds. David B (Boffa, not Barclay, but maybe Barclay too?) is a fan, and you should trust his taste. It's an all-ages, Sunday show, so you'd best arrive promptly at 7pm. One of the last Almonds, Cohen performances before Brock moves to Toronto!