24 — Friday, August 20, 1999 — North Shore News

SLOT 9 vocalist Jordan Doeli at the MADD show.

TRICKY Woo’s Eric Larok on Friday the 13th.

NEWS photos Sprout www eyeteasor.com (aproutbe @ hotmail.com)
ABERRATION’'S Andrew Weins at the Columbia.

icky Woo wows Starfish crowd

Hi Aberration: Friday, Aug. 6 at the Columbia
A barrage of heavy metal rocked the Columbia

with admirable guitar and bass interplay. Derek on

guitar/vocals and Dave on bass deliver. A great

sound mix, solid beats and metal riffs abound.

The band plans on recording at Skynoise (in
New West) with Scott Young. The full-length CD
should ’be out by Christmas. If you like heavy metal
check them out: Drums — Colin Furnesse,
Guitar/vocals — Andrew Weins, Bass —- Dave
Loew, Guitar/vocals — Derek Hayden.

&@ New Big Shoes: Thursdzy, Aug. 12 at the
Starfish

NEW Big Shoes vocalist
‘Shawn Woiss.

Drums — Patrick Conan, Bass/vocals — Erik
Larok, Vocals/guitar — Andrew David Dickson,
Guitar — Adrian Popvich.

@ MADD concert series: Saturday, Aug. 14 at

With serious CFOX rotation and diligent tour-
ing New Big Shoes have established their name.

The band cruised through their set with energy and
candour. Accompanied by pounding rock beats and
polished vocals New Big Shoes are about to top the
charts. Bass — Dave Spide}, Drums — Daniel
Adair, Guitar — Jesse Wainwright, Vocals — Shawn
Weiss, Guitar — Randy Defazio.

@ Tricky Woo: Friday, Aug. 13 at the Starfish
Tricky Woo rocked through their set with ener-
gy and groove — punked out rock and roll with
slick guitar solos. The band has a new release out
on Sonic Unyon Records called Sometimes I Cry.

the Lonsdale Arena,

Poor turnout for Slot 9, The Orchid Highway,
Raw and Star Collector last Saturday at North —
Vancouver’s Lonsdale Arena. The bands made the
best of it and jammed for a just cause —- Mothers
Against Drunk Driving. Retrograde, Midge and
Wisecrack are scheduled for the final show of the.
MADD series tomorrow night at The Britannia
Community Centre (1661 Napier St.) in
Vancouver.

— Sprout

Rheosiatic headlines Stoltmann [ICBC

Boh Mackin
News Reporter
RHEOSTATICS’ guitarist Martin Tielli isn’t a
veteran of many benefit concerts.
But apes eager to play one next Saturday night south of

Tielli i is headlining the third annual Stoltmann Music Festival,
a grassroots event intended to save the old growth rest.
“What am I expecting? To play in the woods, which will be

As are a festival has aged and grown it’s moved closer to the area
it’s named for. The debut took place near Fort Langley on
Kwantien First Nation land. Last year’ 's event was on Squamish
Nation’s Capilano reserve. This years 's version is on Whistler
Volleyball Association land south of Whistler Village.

. . John Bottomley, Lily Frost, Grames Bros. and
Groot Roost on de on the ta, which begins at 1: 30 p.m.

Tielii will be debuting his new side-project, Farmer in the City.

The band includes guitarist Michael Keith, bassist /keyboardist

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Bob Loblaw and drummer Max Arnason.

Tielli_ practised and played with Keith, Loblaw and Michael-
Philip Wojewoda twice at a street festival in Toronto’s Parkdale
neighbourhood i in July under the Farmer in the City monicker.

“It’s austere, freer sounding and more concerned with more
abstract, pure feeling as opposed to topics and issues,” says Tielli
of Farmer in the City. “

The name comes from a song by an obscure writer named
Scott Walker, says Tielli, and sums up what the band’s about.
“Being disoriented, being confused, maybe looking for peace,
some sort of stillness,” hi

Rhcostatics’ fans will be ‘doubly excited because the band

-includes some of the quirky Toronto quartet’s favourites in its set,

such as California Dreamline, Take Me In Your Hand and Shaved

Head.
Organizer Damian Kettlewell is ecstatic to have a Rheostatic
headlining the festival.
“We want to h
Sea-to-Sky region.

build grassroots community support in the
copie across Canada recognize Whistler, so

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