& Badly Drawn Boy,
‘Tuesday, Nov. 14 at the
Starfish Room.
“| “Apologies to anyone ve
got close to tonight”, Damon
Gough says to the audience.
“I -haven’t showered in a
week.” And it shows. Scruffy
“under the best of circum-
.. stances Badly Drawn Boy...
looks like a drunken garden
‘gnome. With a tea-cosied | -
ead, unruly beard and teeth

HOUSTON’S FenixTX
played at the Croatian
Centre last week, |

that give the Brits a bad name,
he is not what you would
expect of a typical English pop
star. But, as the sold out
crowd as the Starfish Room
was to learn, Badly Drawn Boy

_is anything but typical. °

ning with “Fall in a

“River” from his debut album,

Hour of the Bewilderbeast, the

~ boy wonder of lo-fi (move

- aver Beck) comes on strong _
-and cocky, smoking the first of
“what will prove to be one mil

lion cigarettes, Disproviny his
jon of being a~ “di
is the col

ladies in the front. row, he still
comes on ‘with'a subtle finesse --
Not often associated with lads

from Manchester.

is Without your help, children like. Matthew will oS
- have nowhere to turn this Christmas 7

” weirdbeirds from’: Et Paso.

@ Murder City Devils and:
At the Drive-In, Wednesday,
Nov. 15 at Richard’s on
Richards. fe,
Riding on the success of
their hardcore-meets-PC
album Relationship of -

. Command, At the Drive In, .

along with The Murder City
Devils, put on one of the : .
loudest and most hyperactive
shows to ever hit Dick’s on
Dicks. From the insane open-

” er “Archarsenal” to the ;

Fugazi-soundalike of “One
Armed Scissor”, it’s hard to
believe that music this visceral”.
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Refreshingly, At the Drive *-
In are firmly intolerant of the |
normal machismo induced stu-
pidlty usually associated with
ardcore shows. Stopping.
fwice to berate overzealous

r The New Pornogtap
_and Veal, Friday, Nov. 17 at
the Starfish Room. .

VEAL'S Howard Redekopp and Luke Doucet at the ‘Starfish last Friday night.

lead singer Cedric and bassist

Tony were visibly angered by a

few drunken, inconsiderate
fans. :

The audience at the
Starfish was treated to a dou-

er’s CD release. °*

hers.

, moshing and breakneck antics, :

party, Veal headlined and stole

siderable songwriting skill.
» Regular viewers of BCTV .
will recognize Doucet from

last year’s Telus Value Bundle. :
commercial, in which he per-

Yes, there really is a need
on the North Shore. °

Sponsor-a-Family program, you

t

_ Through the North Vancouver Christmas Bureau’s
can put.together a

is

_ food and gift hamper for a North Shore fa
"who will otherwise go without

: the show, due in large parr to’ =
” frontman’ Luke Doucet’s con-°:"

| The Pro.'N

formed their jingle with anoth-
er Vancouver songwriter, Lily
Frost. However, with a blend
of adventurous melody and
incisive lyrics, Veal were able
to overcome that minor dent
te their credibility.

— Elaine Corden

& FenixTX at the Croatian
Cultural Centre, Friday Nov.
17

_” Ttwas teen’s night out fast
_ Friday night as San Diego's

Fenix TX brought their brand
of guitar-driven pop punk to
Vancouver's Croatian Cultural
Centre. The group, along with
support acts Lefty, Good
Charlotte and New Found
Glory, pounded out sets fueled
with teen-angst and high
school high jinks to 4 small -
bur eager crowd of young —
punks in the making. Look for
a new album to hit stores in
the New Year.

— Joe Martin

va Ensemble

with guest artist Barbore Briden-Irschick(viola

_| playing selections from the book An Equ

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