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LOCAL BANDS are in the TV
limelight Saturday nights

beginning tomorrow at |! p.m.

on Shaw and Rogers Cable 4.

By Michael Becker
Music Reporter

DemoVision Project Discovery
is funded entirely by Shaw
Communications. Project Discovery
originated in Alberta about seven
years ago.

The program format features 20
bands participating in !0 shows
taped last summer at the Centennial
Theatre in North Vancouver. The
program is being shown across the
country. Shaw is taping a similar
series in Saskatoon. Add the 10
weeks worth of shows produced in
Alberta and Shaw tapes 30 weeks of
‘production featuring young
Canadian bands.

The program airing tomorrow is
the first for B.C. “it’s the first of five
guaranteed years... Shaw has
promised to back this project,” said
Leslie Payne, Shaw Cable 4 pro-
‘gram coordinator, .. *

Shaw is partnered with Shaw
Communications-owned radio sta-
tions CKLG and 99.3 ‘The Fox. “We
work with CFOX on selection of the
bands,” said Payne.

The DemoVision name links the
TV project to the CFOX annual
Demolisten Derby competition for

» local: bands. Demolisten _ Derby
finalists 2s well as other interested
local bands are “featured on

‘ DemoVision. Twenty bands are

Selected each year for the TV pro--

Bach half hour show includes
“stage footage of two bands as well
aS interviews with Stevie Ray

“Dunbar from CFOX. ‘The program
host is Kelsa Kinsley, an indepen-
dent on-air personality.

Shaw initially became involved
with the DemoVision concept when
it saw the advantage of meshing
resources owned by the company.

’ Said Payne, ‘How can a cable sta-

tion help a radio station and how
can they can help the community
they serve? Hopefully part of that
community is. -performers. When
you’ re starting out as performers,
it’s hard to get exposure. Not only.
that, it's also expensive to produce

that video or get your name seen by ~

somebody who could perhaps help
you.”
.”~ Restrictions for participation by
‘bands: include the stipulation that
- | the talent be.unsigned to a label.
~.. Bands must play original material.
‘The lineup for this year's
DemoVision Shaw and Rogers
Cable 4 television broadcasts is:
8 Jan.’ 28, Damn The Diva and
Blake Havard;

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Bi April 1, Grandma Moses and Red
Sun.

The 99.3 The Fox connection
dictates a rock format.

But said Payne, “There is a real-
ly wide diversity within the list of
bands we've taped. There’s gothic
and folk rock to bhangra and funk.
It’s really an interesting mix.”

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