A Feathery interview with The Ruffled Feathers

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Sloan Bones

theruffledfeathers 300x168 A Feathery interview with The Ruffled Feathers Lots of amazing things have happened to this band since they re-released their debut cd “Lost Cities”. The band has had a successful fundraising campaign to mix and master their new cd raising the five thousands dollars they needed.  Also a new music video “MockingBird” which is a song off their new album “Oracles” which shows the wide range of music diversity the band has. The influences coming from ” A common stage in our youth where we have to make critical decisions about our future and who we look to for advice.” said Gina Loes (Singer, Guitarist, Ukulele).

OrAcLeS F Cover web 300x270 A Feathery interview with The Ruffled Feathers

Another interesting thing about the band is how they interact with their audience, none more apparent then how they are currently releasing “Oracles” to the public by 2 songs at a time over the course of about two and a half months.  Gina explains,”Each pair of songs gets more closely considered and appreciated. It gives us an avenue to put out good content. We knew it would be a lot of work, but its been worth it to us.”

Cities past and present are another thing that dominates the minds of the Feathers as the song (All my Cities) and art work (Oracles cover) reveal. “Each member of The Ruffled Feathers is from a different city, and those places have shaped who we are and the people we want to be.”Gina says. More cities will know of the Ruffled Feathers as a tour of the U.S and Canada is scheduled for early summer.

The song “Rosin and Horsehair” talks about relationships something that is also a strong voice in this band. Gina reveals, “The song is about past relationships and how sometimes they come back into our lives and how we have to choose between a place that we once loved and a place of new possibilities with someone new. That someone new, happened to play violin, and was the inspiration for this song.”

The passion for their environment, music, art and creativity is evident in this band and  not much seems to “Ruffle” their feathers (except for being late for practice).  The artwork for the album  done by Mike Ellis visually shows off all the passions that the band has and paves the way for the future successes.

The cd release show for the Ruffled Feathers is April 20th at the Woods with Jasper Sloan Yip, Doors at 9pm.  They will also be playing an all ages cd release show on April 25th at the Prophouse.

I am

Sloan Bones

Posted in Interveiws | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Hell Raiser at the Rio Theatre

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Sloan Bones

Sloan Bones out on a Friday Night heading down to the Rio Theater for the Hell Raiser show to help make the Rio a multi media theater.  The neat thing about this night is most of the bands are of the experimental type and are playing because they care about what happens in their community.  Now I have to admit I came late to the show and missed some of the early bands such as Gyre (experimental, electroacoustic) and Female Blue Balls.  Both bands have the multi instrumental Poib as a member and because of that fact left me feeling swollen and unsatisfied. Female Blue Balls are playing a show on 4:20 in April so I will remedy that then.

DSCF2068 225x300 Hell Raiser at the Rio Theatre

Half Chinese rockin it!

But the show did go on and I watched as musicians onstage set up two drum sets plus lots of guitars, a clarinet and a Saxophone.  This line up called themselves the Peter Volbek impromptu band and most of the songs were soft with Volbek speaking spoken word poetry. The weird th ing is is Peter Volbek’s recordings are better than what I saw last night.   After he left I discovered most of the members made up a group called Half Chinese. Now they had some great party songs and again the songs online were better than the ones live, just a little too unorganized.

Corinne Lea came out and thanked everyone for coming out to this very important event and asked us to sign the new petition to get Rich Coleman to make good on his promise to change the Liquor laws and you can sign it by going here.

DSCF2074 300x225 Hell Raiser at the Rio Theatre

Colby Sparks busting out sounds

Colby Sparks put on the best performance that I saw with his space techno beats accompanied by some cool rave lighting made for an entertaining set. Some of it reminded me of the final boss in an 80′s video game.  Chriss-a-Riffic ended the show off with lots of people onstage chanting God Damn while he spouted off some chest anger spoken word.

The point of this show was to raise not only money but awareness to our problem in the arts in Vancouver. Humans have always been creatures of habit and are used to routine, with that comes doing things the same way and expecting different results.  Another is when something like the Arts is completely gone from the culture that we live in for things to change.  Maybe that’s what it’s going to take, either that or sub coming to corporate sponsorship to save the Arts.  The point is doing the same things to fix this problem doesn’t work and until all of our creative minds do things differently we will be stuck with the short end of the stick.

I am

Sloan Bones

DSCF2081 300x225 Hell Raiser at the Rio Theatre

Chris-a-Riffic organizing the masses

Posted in Show Reveiws | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Booms Day Mega Show at the Media Club

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Sloan Bones

Well honestly music is an amazing thing, yes stating the obvious (it’s what I do).But something special happened at the media club that reminded me of the first time I met the Booms Day Crew. It showed me that music has no boundaries if your open to the possibilities, no genres, no labels just great musicians coming together to play from their heart.  Amazing DJ Dahesh keep the night flowing all night between sets with his upbeat vibe music.

ZenithD 300x201 Booms Day Mega Show at the Media Club

Zenith D Rocking the Media Club

The Show started off with some comedy by the host Kwasi Thomas followed by some acoustic songs from Jordan Mcdonald (Me Monster) who has a sweet voice singing about Rainbows and Sex. He wrote a song about a tour van accident (that he was involved in) called “I still Bleed for this” which was beautifully done.

Jordan and his brother(MD) will be working together on a electronic project called “Come Hither”.  Check on Jordan’s website for updates here.

Shea Carter took to the stage and had the time of his life starting off with a song with Zenith D called “Wonderful”.  His rap is flowing poetry, just about the things happening in his life and around him.  High energy performance getting the crowd dancing and bouncing.Just one of his gem lines “Life’s a Bitch but hip hop it is my mistress”.

Check out his ep Here!

Look for “The Michael Kurtis Project” coming soon

Zenith D. Wonderpants took the stage next bringing us some Jazzy boombastic beach music. As only Chef Poib(Djembe,Vocals), Zenith (Guitar,Vocals) and GTone (stand up bass). Oh and by the way Gtone had the flu but you couldn’t tell. The expressions that Zenith makes are priceless plus a song called “46 high 5″ was also amazing. Beach days with Zenith D. are the best.

Check out a Video of the Group here!

MdandCompany 300x181 Booms Day Mega Show at the Media Club

Md with Zenith and Jordan

Another rap act called Apos and Skulastic from Victoria and Nanimo who put down some mad beats and rap.  The highlight was Skulastic who just killed the stage with her style and talented speech.

Check out Both Artists : Apos and Skulastic

Shockload! Well the blast of sound that these men made on this night rattled some teeth and spilled some beer.  Ryan Ruin (Guitar Vocals) with his Howie Mandel style hair from the Bobby’s World days kicked some serious ass and Gtone who rocked it flu and all !! Song to hear from that night would be “Last Bar Fighter”.

Go to Shockload and check them out.

Gtone 200x300 Booms Day Mega Show at the Media Club

GTone of Shockload Givin er!

Md jumped up and did some amazing raps spitting out rhymes faster than you can pour a Jacky D. This guy is a busy man producing great acts like Shea Carter among others,  MD (aka Jayme Mcdonald)  is also going tour across Canada opening up for Masta Ace and Marco Polo.They re playing a show in Vancouver at the Red Room on March 24th so clear your calender for that.

Check out MD doing the Challenge series vs Rza its fly !

boomsday 300x155 Booms Day Mega Show at the Media Club

Rockin the Space with Dr No,Zenith D and Chef Poib

Noobie Noobinson and the Boomsday Alliance kicked it on the stage and played some new songs nice and heavy.  But quickly turning us onto a nice Galactic ride for the next song.  A song called “Monkey Canister” returned us to the heavy with Karl the Red blasting and Chef Poib cooking up a great solo.  They played “Vegetarian Samosa” (a fan favorite) and also did an encore because space music never goes out of style.

Check The Booms Day Alliance for more info!!

Kida 300x161 Booms Day Mega Show at the Media Club

Kids and all

The rap group Kids ended off the epic music night with amazing rap style. Jakub Evolved, Kelvin and Jay Mizz (whos going tour with Md) hail from southern Ontario but came together in Vancouver and have been hitting up the lower mainland ever since.  Their fast and furious approach to rap plus audience participation made this a fitting end to the night.

Look for their new album “School Mixed Tape” comming this summer.

Check out Kids and all their sounds

Wonderful night with Music and friends BoomsDay!!

All photos taken by Diane Jackson.

I am

Sloan Bones

 

 

 

 

Posted in Show Reveiws | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Peeks Self Titled Ep

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Sloan Bones

Hey if your like me and like old school English rock then you will like the Peeks. The songs are very straight forward and to the point about girls, great times and Love! Very Oasis esq but dirtier, especially with the vocals of Connor Mcnicholas. “One time lover” is a dance rock hit but I think I like “Bring it on” the best.  This band is young and they’ve started out in the right place kicking ass and bleeding out some sweaty rock and roll. All the boys moved in together to Fallowfield in Manchester where they met their lead guitarist Simon Preedy. They maybe young but if they stay the course I can see this band making a big mark on    British rock.    peeeeks 300x168 The Peeks Self Titled Ep

Check them out : The Peeks

The Peeks are playing on March 15th at the Dry bar in Manchester

Keep it up Lads!!

I am Sloan Bones

Posted in Cd Reveiws | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Servicing our ears at the British ex Servicemen Assn. on Friday Feb 24

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Sloan Bones

Well when it rains it pours with beer and sounds brought to us by the Indie Pop Vancouver Series. This Friday night had Rowan Tichenor, Two Apple Tobacco and Kill Matilda.

Rowan started off the night with some amazing guitar playing, doing some old time east coast sounding songs.  These melodies would definitely relax you after a hard day of work and he also records all of his own material.

Rowan is playing at Tree’s Organic Coffee house on March 23rd and also check out his music here:Rowan Tichenor

DSCF2010 225x300 Servicing our ears at the British ex Servicemen Assn. on Friday Feb 24

Giving a warm start to the evening Rowan Ticheno

Next was Two Apple Tobacco who put on a explosive show with a sound that is very Zappa esq.  But there’s more to this band by not sticking to the regular formula that a rock band uses.  Starting by having an amazing violinist Phyllis Ho who with Daniel Deorksen (vocals,guitar) doing some crazy back to back solos. Jessica Harvey (vocals) lent her hand to the mix by providing amazing vocals as well as harmonies with Daniel’s guitar playing.  The back end held up beautifully by Jordan Kling(bass) and (drums) Vernon Shewchuck.  Such smooth transitions into the next song keeping everyone interested in what they were going to do next.”Elephants and Crows was  definitely one of the highlights of the night where one side of the band was making Elephant like sounds the other side crow sounds.This band smoked The British ex leaving everyone relaxed and satisfied.

Look for their new album Squinters Paradise in May.

Check here : Two Apple Tobacco for music and updates.

DSCF2021 300x225 Servicing our ears at the British ex Servicemen Assn. on Friday Feb 24

Two Apple Tobacco smooth!

 

Kill Matilda ended the show with their dance rock horror pop and even though it’s not my fly bag they can still rock le shit out of a place.  There was even a slow dance happening while the tunes were rockin so not a bad way to end a Friday night.

Check out: Kill Matilda

 

See You on the Fly Side

Sloan Bones

 

 

Posted in Show Reveiws | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment