overtheedge 21 Feb, 1996

Arts and Enterte
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by Stephanie Willett

People Playing Music Hit the Internet

People Playing Music,
Nudge, and Anita Genevieve

Wed, Feb. 14, 1996 at
the Internet Cafe. -

Presented by the UNBC
Radio Society and
~ Rocketfish Productions

The night began with
the voice and guitar of Anita
Genevieve. The guys of
Nudge, Giles Theriault
(drums), Ilya Medlicott
(bass) and Mike Callewaert

Left: "Time to have
some fun" Anita
Genevieve and Kim

_ Citton enjoying the rest

of the night. Anita was
one of the opening acts
for People Playing
Music at the internet
: cafe on Valentines day.

(guitar/vocals) were the spe-

cial guests who were on be-
fore the headliners People
Playing Music. People Play-
ing Music, originating out of
Vancouver, include Jamie
Kaufman (drums/vocals),
Panos Grames (vocals, keys,
guitar), Dave Sikula (guitar
vox), Martin Blackwell
(bass), Jesse Tellez (tenor
sax) and Cory “Show Boat”
Weeds (alto sax). People
Playing Music were playing
without Apple Jensen (vo-
cals) because her plane from
Vancouver was fogged in
(sounds typical for Prince
George, weather gets us ev-
ery time, eh?)

I enjoyed the evening.
It seemed as though most of
the people who came did.
One member of the audience
is quoted as saying “It was
‘s0000 wicked! WICKED!!!
The lights were shaking due
to the dancing audience.
Unfortunately the turn out
was less than desirable, but
the timing was bad. Hope-
fully if People Playing Mu-
sic come back again it will
not be during midterms(or
finals)!. At times it was hard
hear the lyrics, and the stage
set-up was a little

squooshed(it was difficult to
see some of the musicians),
but this did not damper the
evening at all.

People Playing Music
are, as Panos described, “yel-
low”. It is difficult to really
give them a certain sound.
They played a mixture of
funk and acid jazz, with other
music stylings added here

and there as well. At timese

they could be described as
having a sound similar to
UB40, at other times they
could be compared to the
Dave Matthew’s Band.

More than likely, most of.

you heard what they sounded
like if you were in the Win-
ter Garden at all this
week(good stuff eh?).
People Playing Music are
now off to do a six show, five
day tour, and then on Febru-
ary 27 they. are off to Italy.
Nudge and Anita
Genevieve were also very
good, as stated by Goth Girl
“Nudge was fucking awe-
some”. There was a very in-
teresting mix of music
stylings between the three
acts, which made for a ex-
ceptional Valentines night.

Photo T. Gula

‘Left: Jesse Tellez

(tenor sax) of People
‘Playing Music showing —
off his stuff at the :
Internet Cafe

Photo T. Gula