EXPO SATIRE $1 - Friday, Juae 21, 1985 - North Shore News a nutshell PAGE 53 Cheers are not enough, he says IN SOME people's eyes, Expo 86 has been Jong on drama and short on humor. By TIMOTHY RENSHAW Comedian Michael. Met- calfe says the celebration has also sone financially hog wild and come up a little short on social consciousness. “There ure.so many more important issues in Van- couver: look at the food banks, for instance. | mean Vancouver has a basic pro- blem that Expo totally rolls over and sweeps under the carpet.’* Unlike the majority of Ex- po critics, however, the West Vancouver native has fun- nelled his venom into something more than idle negatives. . He has harnessed powers of sarcasm and satire developed in the get laughs or get lost forum of Punchlines comedy club to come up with, ‘‘Cheers Are Not Enough: The Unofficial Ex- po 86 Relief Song’’. The song, spliced to the tepressed-underdog strains of Bob Dylan’s ‘‘Hurricane’’, takes wicked roundhouse swipes at the ever-unfolding Expo soap opera: We had no choice but to go with the plan, just like the time before and the time before that. But in B.C. that’s just the way things go : trading our future for Ex- "NEWS photo Tarry Peto A GATE CRASHER at the Expo 86 party gates, West Vancouver native, Michael Metcalfe, explains inspiration behind the song, ‘‘Cheers Are Not Enough”, his satirical poke at the ex- cesses of Vancouver’s world’s fair. Proceeds from sale of the cassette witl be donated to the Vancouver food bank. Ouly 182 Shopping Days ‘til Christmas. DON’T PANIC? 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Metcalfe says ‘Cheers Are Not Enough”, co-written by Scotty Myers and recorded at Grantham Sound with a handful of local musicians, has had “incredible support and response from conser- vative areas where | didn't really expect such sentiments to come from.”’ True to the values he claims are missing from Ex- po, Metcalfe produced, directed, and financed an in- ital 100 cassette copies of the song, proceeds of which, he says, will go to the Van- couver food bank. The electrically en- thusiastic student of film, humor, and sociology shrugs off the $900 he has thus far sunk into the project: ‘‘It’s really broken me. I mean I can’t put gas in my car; I'm missing appointments, the whole thing's getting ridiculous. But I think it’s the only way to get the message across that a lot of people are suffering around here and the government spends a half million dollars to open Expo.”* Though his message may get across, Metcalfe has the wit to know that it will take more than 100 cassettes and an accompanying video to change the high-rolling capitalistic heart of Expo 86. He says he has been round- ly accused of being a leftist and totally anti-Expo by thin- skinned free enterprisers and Expo promoters, but Met- calfe denies both charges: “I’m not against the fair, I’m just angry at the way things have been handled.”’ “Cheers Are Not Enough’’ cassettes, Metcalfe says, will be made available in various independent record stores around the Lower Mainland. Price will “The money is not. important to me, if people give a dime then that’s another dime for the food bank. This is not a commercial scam, I sincerely believe the cause is worth it. And | feel good about what I’m doing here, that’s reward enough. I don’t think I have to explain myself about the song. it speaks for itself and brings attention to something worth bringing attention to."’ + Audience participation wanted ECKART Seeber's Premiere Organ Recital Tour °85 presents a unique experience for his audiences. Seeber, a young Canadian composer and organist, presents no less than 11 premieres of his own works along with audience opinion polling. Seeber can be heard on the North Shore at West Van- ~ couver United Church on Friday, June 21 and at St. Richard’s Anglican Church in North Vancouver on Wednesday, June 26. All concerts start at 8 p.m. and admission will be by dona- tion. 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