Arts and Entertainment

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Seo Bupxitt

Well, in my usual forays to
the Urban Coffeehouse, I was
one day suddenly stuck by an
inspiration: Hey! If I’m coming
here anyways, why not do
something for the paper. So I
started talking to some of the
bands, and now I’m going to
print some of what I found out.
I won’t presume to call them

-“interviews,” because I can’t
actually do anything useful like
that. Most of them were me

"just talking to the bands. I did
manage to come up with some
‘quotable quotes, though.

Terror of Tiny Town, out of
- Vancouver, don’t have the
simplicity to play in any one
genre; instead, they feel
obliged to range through just
about every style of music
there is. There were no
complaints about this though,
as throughout the set they
managed to keep a completely
danceable vein underneath.
This was proven when the
audience went wild whenever
they played any kind of music.
I believe that their main intent
was to both have and create a
lot of fun, because that was
what the show was, completely
and fully. An explanatory
quote plagiarized directly from
their bio sheet made a few
things make a lot more sense:
“We take a pillaging angle on
the creative process. Any and
every genre is fair game for
appropriation and
bastardization. We are like
vikings in the cultural global
village.” (Geoff Berner, lead
singer and wearer of extremely
cool yet flammable bathrobe).
One last point about the band:
they got the name from the
classic B-movie “The Terror of
Tiny Town,” the only all-
midget musical western ever
made,

Small Town Rhino, also out
of Vancouver, formerly from
Yellowknife, has got to have
some of the worst luck I’ve
ever seen. Coming up here to
do the show, their van started
dying. Possibly it’s completely
dead by now, but who knows.
Before the band even started
playing, the guitarist’s guitar
broke. During the show, the

after fixing the string he
realized that his bass was
broken. Later on in the show, a
part on the drum set broke.
Luckily when the drum broke
there was only a song or two
left. Small Town Rhino would
like to thank Purge’s bassist
for lending them a bass, and
Mike from Total Deth for
lending them a guitar. Their
music was a lot of fun too. I’m
not going to even invent a title
to describe their music
(pumped-up-country thrash?).. .
because it was a fairly singular
type of music. Prior to their
relocating to Vancouver, they
WERE the music scene in
Yellowknife. This could be a
reason for their musical
strangeness. Another
interesting point was when
they told me “we used to all be
professionals.” Stuff like
teachers, etc. They also told me
that “we’re very very poor but
we’re trying.” I have no clue
what they meant by that;
probably something to do with
money, as they are a great
band.

Purge, hailing from Dawson
Creek, gave some interesting
quotes for me to print. Things
like “we hate cops,” as realized
in the song ‘Die Pig Die,’
“society blows in Canada,
communism/fascism,” and,
most importantly,
“LEGALIZE!” They currently
have two demo tapes out, and
they wanted me to print their
address if people wanted one:
Purge
1021 120th Ave
Dawson Creek, B.C.

V1G 3J8
(604) 782-3928
(Shawn)

The demos are $7 each, but
Purge says “send us a big
fucking bucket of puke and
we'll give you a free demo.”
The reason for wanting a big
bucket of puke? “So we can
throw it on the audience.”
Excellant band.

Bitter is far and away my
favorite loca] band, and one of
my favorite bands period.
They’ve been together for a
year and a half, making them
about the longest standing local
band. They are also about the

player broke a string, then

most hateful band in Prince
George. When asked about
their musical style, their
response was “to take 10
babies in a bag, get a bat, and
beat on the bag for eight
hours.” Also, “we like
disco...we can’t play it... we
love ABBA.” They have a
demo, but they don’t seem to
like it much. They are going in
to record a CD on December
Ist, and they say to just wait
for that one, because they
probobly won’t give you a

-demo. They also had a few

points that they wanted to say
to the outside world. Things
like “Clockwork Medusa
(another local band) is a
subsidiary band of Bitter; they
are all the guys we canned,”
“Come and see us, we hate
you,” “Bitter is in no way
affiliated with Spam...pigs are
affilited with Spork...we like
Spam though...Cops don’t like
us...fucking cops looking at
us.” This last part came about
when we were standing in a
back alley behind the Urban
having our little chat and a cop
drove by us a couple of times
shining a light at us. I guess it
looked like a drug deal and not

an interview. But around that -

point in time we started getting
too cold, so we left.

Twominutehate is more than
just local, three of the four
members go to the university.
In a rare case of chance, all
three showed up for school on
the same day, at the same time.
Taking this opportunity, I got a
few words from the band.
Twominutehate loves cheap
beer, refillable lighters, 8-hole
cherry red docs, comfy chairs

with spinning and rolling

capabilities, and basically
anything for a buzz. They’ve
been together for three
months, but they’ve been
trying to get it together for
about five years. Their musical
influences include Raffi and
the Irish Rovers. When I asked
how they would describe their
music (a fun question because
of the response it usually elicit)
I got two answers: “Ahh, for
fuck’s sake; Jesus Christ, why
the fucking hell would you ask
that goddamn question?” and
“We're a bastard child of the
Velvet Underground, The
Explioted, and Operation Ivy.”
More simply, they can be

; called punk. (Note: for all you

people that have not yet been
educated, Green Day and The
Offspring are NOT punk)
Strangely enough, both Matt
(bass) and Gareth (vocals,
guitar) have had classical
training. During the interview,
Gareth did some interesting
things, such as spinning and
rolling in a chair, showing
everyone his new cherry red.
docs and refillable lighter, and
he tore up a Rocketfish ad.
None of this made any real
sense, but it was fun to watch.
These guys sure seem to love
their fun. They wanted
everyone to know that “we’re
good, really...we’re loud...we
accept donations of equipment
and/or money for the
Twominutehate studio fund (a
nonprofit organization), or
anything for a buzz” and when
they scared out all the old
people at the Urban’s Open
Stage night,” it was the
intended effect.” This shows
how good their music is: they
can scare old people out of a
building. Their music is loud,
raucious, and extremely
enjoyable.

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