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Talent contest wins
big boost for band

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Brian Harding, guitarist Tony
Wilson and percussionist Dave
Macdougall} come from a jazz
background, but ali have quickly
crossed over to the inimitable BBQ
style.

“We don’t consider ourselves
a jazz band, but we still play the
jazz festivals. A lot of the jazz
purists are not impressed,’’ laughs
Boothroyd.

“But then, ii depends how
broad your definition of jazz is. If
it is improvisation, then that’s what
we do. We're just not a capital
“ys jazz band.”

“We're a small ‘‘j’' jazz band
with a big “A” (for alternative) in
front of it,”” chortles Harker.

They like to have a good time
when they perform so they create
music to dance and fool around
to, complete with jokes and off-
the-wall lyrics.

“The humor,’’ observes
Harker, a big Was Not Was fan,
“comes from a sensibility we all
share.-You can see that in the
name of the band, which com-
bines two elements of modern
culture we know and love so well.
There’s a lot of sardonic imagery.
We all have a very joyously
cynical vision of the world, and
that comes through in our music.
it’s not part of some manifesto we
thought up."’

If they had a manifesto it would
be short and sweet: music to party
to. To wit, their curious cover of
Led Zep’s Misty Mountain Hop. -

“It’s fun to watch the heavy-
duty Led Zeppelin fans at our

concerts,’” laughs Harker. “They
get this look of incredulity and
horror on their faces. But when
they recognize their famous guitar
solos in our horns, they roll on the
ground laughing.”

Winning the West Coast Music
Award for Independent Album of
the Year in 1990 and Shindig!,
CITR’s battle-of-the-band talent
contest, were welcome boosts, but
both Harker and Boothroyd know
that success can come painfully
slowly, particularly for an in-
dependent band.

What the band needs now, both
agree, is a cross-Canada and/or
European tour. .

Says Boothroyd, “The fact that
we've never gone anywhere else
and made a splash is a bit of a
stigma.”

“!’'m happy with the way the
band has gone — we're ‘a lot more: ~

_ concise, more focused now, but

we need to move into our next
phase,’’ says Harker. :
“Ve haven't toured Canada
yet because the cost of taking
seven people on the road is for-

midable. And we're all far too old: |”

to sleep on the flocr and eat ham-

- burgers for four years. But the

problem is, you can't sella CDin =
Toronto if you don’t go and piay =: -
there. . ue a .
And Europe? _ ee
“tt think we'd have better suc-
cess there,”he says. “I think |.
both our music and lyrics would ©." ;
be accepted better over there. The:
audiences aren’t as pummelled by

’ the media machine‘as they are’...

here.’

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