26 — Friday, April 30, 1999 — North Shore News Noise Therapy set f Bob Mackin News Reporter THE members of Noise Therapy are still reeling from the thrill of touring North America as Motiey Criie’s opening act. The journey with the reunited Los Angeles-based 80s metal band brought Noise Therapy and its heavy 90s industri- al groove into hockey arenas across the continent. They made new fans and new friends — including members of the Criic. Criie bassist Nikki Sixx spent some time with Noise Therapy at its East Esplanade rehearsal space last weekend. “He went back this morning, he had all the sushi he could eat,” bassist Rob Thiessen said Monday. “He made the mistake of asking if there’s any good sushi in town, and I’m like, dude, this is Vancouver, think about it.” Sixx was adding his expertise and loaning some equipment to the Noise Therapy, which also includes guitarist Kai Markus, drummer Oscar Irwin and vocal- ist Dave Ottoson, a North Vancowverite. _ “We became pretty good friends with HALIFAX’s Plumtree plays NewMueicWest at the Brickyard on Friday at 10 p.m. The band fs: Carla Gillls {teft), Catriona Sturton (washing hands), lis (rear) and Amanda Braden (right). Lynetts G Headlining all-ages gig Saturday, May 8 those guys on the road, plus Nikki's got lots of good ideas as far as songwriting and stutt,” Thiessen said. “We're working on a batch of new songs, and we're see- ing what h. -xought.” Some of those new songs will appear on the band’s first American release in July. It will be include several songs trom the band’s 1998 Myton Lowrider album, which was distributed only in Canada by A&M Records. A&M was gobbled up by Universal Music in the recent takeover of Polygram. Thiessen said Noise Therapy, for now, is on Universal's Interscope label. “It’s hard when you’re on a record label you’ve gor all these people that you trust who signed you, and A&M’ they’re no longer there. You’ whole new set of people to deal it’s an interesting situation. Bu record’s coming out one way or anoth- er.” . The band is hitting the road from June to September in the U.S. and will come home for a fall tour, before it gets too cold. “No more December or January tour- ing for us in Winnipeg, it’s not going to happen.” Thiessen said the band has a devovd following on the Prairies, but is still ery- ing to ignite fan interest in eastern Canada. “We're still working on Toronto and Montreal, they're a little bic tougher to crack. Because you're from Vancouver they think you're just into smoking pot and hangin’ out in your basement.” The band is among a plethora of acts gigging around town next weekend dur- ing the NewMusicWest festival. Noise Therapy is headlining an all-ages gig Saturday afternoon at the Vogue Theatre with God Awakens Petrified and Six Times Cruel. Tickets are $9.93, but you'll get in free with a NewMusicWest festival wristband. “We weren’t going to be part of it, we've been part of NewMusicWest for the last four years in a row, and this year we’re in pre-production, recording new songs. They called and said how'd you like to do an all ages show at the Vogue Theatre on May 8. We deo all ages shows any time we unas Jong as they’re prop- erly organized. This one will be.” It probably won"t be the last chance for local audiences to see Noise Therapy before summer. The band is hoping to put together a bill at the Croatian Cultural Centre or the Rage before the American tour. Piumiree harvesting fruits of their labour BANDS are coming from north, south and east to play at NewMusicWest. Pitmrce is flying in all the way from the east coast. Halifax, to be exact. The band is led by sisters Carla Gillis (guitar/vocals) and Lynette Gillis (drums). “We've always played together,” Lynette says. “She started playing guitar when I started playing drums, I was 11, she was 13.” Now 20 and 22, respectively, Lynette says: “We can do things without even thinking sometimes. The two of us will just play, and we don’t even have to say something, we'll just swic time.” at the same -Plumtree has two albums to its credit (Mas Teen Fainting and Plumtree Predict: the Future) with a third on its way ed to Halifax indie label Cinnamon Toast. The band is si; this summer. Plumtree plays May 7 at the Starfish Room at 10 p.m. The band will also be featured on CBC Radio Two's Radiosonic between 7 p.m. and midnight May 8 on 105.7 FM. . —Bob Mackin NewMusicWest Venues Brickyard (315 Carrall St.); Penthouse (1019 Seymour St.) Starfish Room (1055 Homer St.); The Gate (1176 Granville St.); Richards on Richards (1036 Richards St.); Whip Gallery Cafe (209 East 6th Ave.);-Columbia Hotel (363 Columbia St.); Enterprise Hall (Plaza of Nations, 750 Pacific Blvd. S.); The Purple Onion (12 Water St., 3rd floor); The Vogue. Theatre (913 Granville St.; Mars Club (1320 Richards St}; Oavid Cyr photo Piccadilly Club (620 West Pender St.); Café Deux Solieux (2096 Commercial Dr.); Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir St.); Arts Club Backstage Lounge (1585 Johnston St.); Marine Club (573 Homer St.); The Rage (Plaza of Nations, 750 Pacific Blvd. S.); Srudio-16 (1551 West 6th Ave.)- ORTGAGES NEWS photo Bob Mackin Ex-Music West executive Laurie Mercer (leit), JP5 singer Gerry-Jenn Wilson and Sudden Death Records’ Joe Keithley. May we recommend @ May 6 — If you can’s get a seat at the Vogue Theatre for the 9:30 p.m. show by Lions Bay blues/swing man Colin James, go to Gastown for a taste of salsa. Rumba Calzada’s latin jazz stylings fill the Purple Onion in Gastown at 9:30 p.m. 4 little further cast, Victoria’s Purr opens festivities at the Columbia Hotel at 9:30 p.m. North Vancouver’s Plan Orange is on in the same venue at 11 p.m. The Ken Beattie and Mark “Itch” Critchley project called Radiogram is on at the Marine Club at 10:15 p.m. Odds’ soundman Bob Kemmis does his solo thing at the Railway Club at 11 p.m. Boss Hog won’t be at the Picadilly, but the North Shore’s Roscoe P. Coltrane wiil be at midnight. Smart dub DJ Jacob Cino and his Third Eye Tribe take over the Purple Onion at midnight, the same ume the leg- endary Motorhead hits the stage at the Rage. If you catch Third Eye Tribe for 45 minutes, you’re not likely to miss the phead play Ace of Spades. Lemmy usually saves the best for ast. Wi May 7 — Thank God It’s Friday and thank God Sean MacDonald is back at NewMusicWest. He'll be premiering his new band, the Robots, at the Starfish Room at 9:30 p.m. The Perry Farrell-influenced MacDonald led the short-lived Ids and will release a new disc on Nettwerk Records sometime this year. Maestro (don’t call him Fresh Wes anymore) and Run DMC are headlining a hip hop and electronica extravaganza at the Enterprise Hall in the Plaza of Nations. Also on the bill at Never Neverland IV are British dish DJ Heaven, Montreal teen | phenom A-Trak and Rahzel, the beat box master from ¢ Roots. If you like punk more than funk, head to the Penthouse for the Sudden Death Records’ showcase. Label master Joe “Shithead” Keithley, of GOA fame, is on at 10:15 p.m. No strippers at the Penthouse this night, but if you say please, JP5 singer Gerry-Jenn Wilson might just show you her belly button. She’s on at 1 a.m. Before there was Pure, there was After All. That band’s singer, Scott Acomba, just released a brilliant Pixies’-inspired solo album. He’s on at the Picadilly at 11 p.m. If you missed Motorhead on Thursday, Vancouver’s Coal will most definitely play its country-tinged cover of Ace of Spades at the Purple Onion, sometime after 1 a.m. @ May 8 — On Saturday, Social Distortion leader Mike Ness plays the Vogue, sans Social Distortion, at 9:30 p.m. . Ex-Rose Chronicles’ singer Kristy Thirsk exercises her ethereal pipes at 9 p.m. in the Gate. If you missed Junkhouse 7 singer Tom Wilson at the Vogue, perhaps you can catch him at the Railway Club at 1 a.m. . The whole thing comes to an unofficial end when Scattle’s - Murder City Devils rock the Brickyard ac 1 a.m. A NewMusicWest wrishand can be had for $40 at TicketMaster. IP’ get you in to every venue, space permitting. If you'd like to rub shoulders with record industry bigwigs at the NewMusicWest convention in Robson Square, that'll cost you $200 (wristband included). Students get a $75 discount on the full delegate pass. 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