56 - Friday, April 19, 1985 - North Shore News

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MOJO IS A SPARKLING blend of the old and the
new. A band that has taken classic rhythm and
blues, and reggae rhythms, fused them with the
energy of modern music, and come up with what
Mojo original, Tim McHugh, calls ‘‘African pop’’.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

Until mid-June 1984, Mojo
was the ‘A’-circuit lounge
duo of McHugh and Joani
Bye, a successful musical
partnership that goes back six
years. Last summer the two
joined forces with ex-

Blenders, Cecille Larochelle
and Scan Hosein.

The result brings an
automatic smile to McHugh’s
face: ‘‘The magic in this band
comes only once in lifetime.”’

As a band, Mojo has
always striven to be more
than a static purveyor of Top
Fortiana. And though that is

MOJO WORKING. Playing at Holiday’s to April
27, Mojo knocks out a bright blend of originals
and classics from the 60s and 70s in their infectious
rhythm and blues meets the 80s style.

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the standard fare demanded
by most nightclub owners,
McHugh's songwriting
abilities and Bye’s vocal dex-
terity have usually combined
to overcome nightclub owner
and audience fears of original
material.

As a quartet, the band re-
tains this core of musical
originality and bolsters it
with the modern pop sen-
siblities of Larochelle and
Hosein. Cover versions of
60s and 70s classics ranging
from ‘'The Banana Boat

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Song" to ‘‘The Lion Sleeps
Tonight’ to ‘*Satislaction*’
to ‘‘Walk On The Wild Side’’
are taken by the band and
converted into Mojo Music:
electrified 80s rhythm and
blues that vaults off the stage
with excellent’ vocals and
bubbling musical snap.

Bye (guitar), Larochelle
(keyboards), and Hosein
(drums and percussion) han-
dle the bulk of Mojo vocals.
While McHugh, the band’s
principal songwriter, anchors
the Mojo sound with

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JOANI BYE WAILS, One
quarter of Mojo's vocal
power, Joani Bye, lights up
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Insistence on using the half
dozen Mojo originals that the
band works into each set has,
according to McHugh, tossed
compromise to the winds and
invested the band with
personality.

“We're not a small town
band. Audiences seem either
to love us or hate us, there’s
no grey area,’’ says McHugh.
He adds that though Van-
couver is still a Top 40 city,
“people are bored to death
with that sound.”’

Mojo is that rarity on Van-
couver’s nightclub circuit, a
band dedicated to its own
originality and overflowing
with the exhilaration of shar-
ing that originality.

Catch them at Holiday’s
until April 27

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