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SOUNDSCAPE

Muckabout with the Clumsy Lovers

By Nicole Larson

The Annual Outdoors Club
Muckabout has come and gone.
The Muckabout is a mood
event, you have to want to have
fun. The atmosphere is one of a
high school dance, in the early
hours everyone sits in the gym-
nasium, around the dance floor,
listening to the music, and trying
to talk over it. Unfortunately, if
you are not a member of the
Outdoors Club, it is kind of like a
dance at a high school you did
not attend, you only know the
people you came with and may
be one or two others.

Once the beer started flowing,
however, the dancing began,
well sort of. A determined group
(of about 6) danced to the musi-
cal styling of Ruby Trout, the
guest DJ. It is hard to describe
the genres of music that Ruby
played, there was a little bit from
every era, but none of the easi-
ly recognizable songs from any
of them. The music was mostly

from the ‘60’s but there was
some that went even farther
back. The most easily recogniz-
able pieces were Elvis songs,
and people started to dance to
anything with an easily deter-
mined rhythm out of despera-
tion. The doors opened at 7pm
but the band did not begin until
9:30, the prudent audience
members also did not arrive
until 9:30 or so.

So what do you get when you
cross a barn dance with
Riverdance? The music of The
Clumsy Lovers, a: band out of
Coquitlam, BC. Musically they
were excellent performers, but
their vocal talents need to be
polished. They should also
invest in a sound man so that
Chris Jonat, bass player, can
turn and face the audience
while he plays instead of having
to do the sound as he performs.
Kevin Ball is an amazing musi-
cian, his talents on the bag-

Contest Winner!!

The following is the winner of our “What | did on my read-
ing Break” contest. Amy Dash won two tickets to the
Zuckerbaby and Sandbox concert at the Munk this past
Monday. Way to go and thanks to all those who entered!
Look for our new contest in the Top 10 of this issue!

Reading Break Reality

by Amy Dash

This year on reading break,

| got nothing done.

| dreamed of just one year ago,
Where | was basking in the sun.

A trip to California,

was the agenda last year;

On a cruise ship,

where we drank a lot of beer!

This year however,

the funds we low.

No student loan ta take me,
where | wanted to go.

So I'll wait again till next year,

to see if my surprise;

Is actually another great trip,

one that involves boys...um, toys...

Oh nevermind!

pipes, the acoustic guitar and
the penny whistle made the
evening worth while. Andrea
Lewis plays the fiddle with an
unmatched enthusiasm. When
the Clumsy Lovers mesh musi-
cally there is nothing clumsy:
about them. Chris Hamilton,
Cam Jonat, and Cameron
Thomson are musicians who
know their craft and fill in incred-
ible harmonies. As an
aside,Cam Jonat, the drummer,
really should keep his shirt on
during the entire performance, it
wasn’t that warm in there and
we just did not need to see that.

On the whole a good time was
had by all, once the Clumsy
Lovers took the floor. Their
music was energetic and left no
toe untapped. They are a band
that can be danced to and that
have an excellent connection
with their audience.

iy

The Clumsy Lovers featured at the UNBC Muckabout,
brought crowd to it’s feet, and kept it there.
photo by Jodie Feist

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March 24, 1998