Promotions Director -photo Cameron Rowe

Impressions of the Backyard

BBQ II

-by simon

Impressions of the Backyard BBQ
Il aré many and varying. In my opin-
ion it was an excellent show, if you
ignore a few glitches. Most or all of
the glitches that were prominant on
Saturday were to do with immature
underqualified people doing jobs
requiring qualified trained person-
nel. I am not saying that everyone
who was volunteering did a bad job
-- in fact most did a terrific job--but
a few (one in particular) were trying
to renact Roadhouse instead of main-
taining the peace and protecting the
performers. Another glitch I saw
was that communication between the
volunteers was crappy to say the
least. You had a bunch of first and
second years students running
around with radios and if you wanted
to get in touch with someone, no one
had a clue how to do it. The biggest
complaint I had with the whole af-
fair was that instead of getting a bar-
ricade for the mosh, no one bothered
to spend the extra money, hence
Bif’s untimely ending to her set.
Well, that was a little negative... Oh
well. On a more positive note, the
Beer Garden was handled much bet-
ter than last year, (although how can

Nathan of Another White Male. -photo Jes Burkitt

you get worse than a riot?) The
show went as well as can be ex-
pected with a little hail and rain.
The bands were great. My local
fav, twominutehate, was excel-
lent as always with their own
brand of hard edge sound, espe-
cially since they didn’t get elec-
trocuted. (BTW there will be an
interview with Matt, the basist for
twominutehate in the next issue).
Another White Male, who is one
of my all time favorite bands, was
looking and sounding excellent,

especially since Nathan, the lead
singer, was wearing my old, (now
his new PVC trenchcoat). Bif, of
what we got to see, was in rare
form, who after getting her tooth
chipped, wanted to come back out
and play for us. About Bif, she is
the nicest, most polite media icon
I have ever met in my entire life. I
could not say enough about that
talented young lady, but there is an
article especially about her in this
paper as I speak...or whatever.
Well, I must hand it to Brenda for

organizing this concert, she did all
one person could do. All in all I
had a great time and hope every-
one who went felt the same.

P.S. if you disagree with anything
I said or I was wrong in any way
please contact me through the edi-
tor or e-mail me_ at
pounm000@ugrad.unbc.edu, or
just come and accost me in the hall-
ways, if you don’t know whol am,
you are in the minority.