Free Speech: themusicalrevolution.com

*Note: This newsletter is a reissue - all dates are null & void.

www.themusicalrevolution.com (tempsite)
themusicalrevolution@yahoo.ca

Jun./2004.
Edition (i).

L)
only a tear
and nothing more
for death is only knocking once

M)
our factories are built
with manpower songs
steam- stacked and abrasive

Copyright: Zoë Zagg, 2004.

PROMO:

Jon Coe on CHRW: every Friday morning at 11:am - www.chrwradio.com or 94.9FM if you live in the London, ON area. JC's show features house, electro, tekhouse, nu-jazz and miscellaneous. Czech it!

ELEPHANT BAND shows:
NXNE showcase - Thursday, June 10th at 10:00pm at the TRANZAC club, Toronto.
Opening slot w/ KIM MITCHELL - Saturday, August 7th at the JUS JORDAN arena, Iroquois Falls.

If house music is your flava then here are a few sites you NEED to check out:

MUTEK festival - www.mutek.ca
John Acquaviva - www.jacq.com
Richie Hawtin - www.plastikman.com

Big ups to my boy JC for passing these along.

IN THIS ISSUE:

I've spent the entire month wading through search engines and phone lists to find bars/pubs that feature live acoustic music from Toronto to Vancouver. If you dig live music in pub surroundings then check the sites IN THIS ISSUE.

EDITORIAL:

All I can say is that this has been one hell of a month for myself and the revolution. Actually, that isn't all I can say. If it was then I wouldn't be the ramble-on-blow-hard that you've all come to know and love/despise :) All self-effacing aside, this month has plain kicked my ass. Every project and experiment that I've been working on for the last two years has come to a head.

themusicalrevolution.com - honestly folks, it's on the virtual drawing board as we speak. I just handed it over to my boy Scotty a couple of months ago knowing that he was already up to his neck in musical projects (see thefairmonts.com), a full time job and last but not least his own web related solo projectS (check ineedmorecowbell.com). All this and we won't even mention his debilitating medical condition that occasionally finds him drinking copious amounts of alcohol and calling his old buddies at 4:00 AM to yell, "yOoohlhhhh FfuuLKerrrrrsssss" at their answering machines. LOL!!! I think his condition is closely related to Tourettes... All joking aside, this site is very close to my heart and I intend it to be my life's work, continually evolving, documenting my own failures and successes as well as (and most importantly) helping others discover and promote music that they truly believe in. Since Scotty knows me better than most, he really is the best/only man for the job.

Corporate Cash Cow... - Those in the know, know that this is what I call myself when I've been a "naughty boy" *jokes*. Actually, this is myself playing cover tunes on acoustic guitar/singing solo. Locally, it's been a BITCH!! Booking in TO is difficult to say the least. The competition is stiff, everybody has a demo and their own P.A. system. That being said, I'm a resilient bastard and where there's a will*...
Provincially has been better. This "Canadian Idol" promo thing going on in area bars has been a little bit annoying but, whatever. Brian with the G.S.T., now Ben... Fuck 'em! Those Mulroneys.
Nationally. Yeah fellow babies - I'm takin the Cow national! I've begun canvassing bars/pubs in Western Canada and hope to play my way to Van City (drink up wi my girl Pauls and my boy Hud) and back. Late July and most of Aug. Check the INSPIRATIONS section of this newsletter for some Canadian pubs worth visiting, online at the very least.
*will - in this context means stubborn, ugly, annoying, slightly greying but refusing to believe that I'm still not 21...LOL! Mark my words though, once I'm in, I'm yanking everyone else I can along with me!

Busking for Cash Cow... - Yeah, I got my Toronto busking liscence. I went down to 112 Elizabeth St. (Bay and Dundas, Toronto, ON), paid my $31.71 (total) and now I can play anywhere in Toronto until March/05. Broke it in the other day at the beaches. Sun, bathing suits, me, my guitar, 45 songs, s'all good... and I got dinner to boot! Why? The reason is threefold. One - to hone the songs for the road. Two - dinner. And three - to build up confidence in myself that I can singlehandedly entertain anyone, anytime. This is by far the most challenging.

Demo - I've set up a tempsite at www.themusicalrevolution.com
The site is in no way representative of the revolution other than I'm its proprietor. I set it up so that I can book shows out west without wasting precious resources. Check it out if you want to. There are a few amateur covers/demos on there - nothing too spectacular. Because of this I am working on a full scale acoustic demo. This one will be ALOT better. I've only just begun this project so there isn't much to tell but I will keep you posted and all songs will be represented on the revolution website as finished.

Blah blah blah, ME blah Me blah... I know. The main reason that this is all so important is that if any of it works out, maybe some of the steps that I took will help others succeed in their like ventures. Mainly I share because I haven't had time for much else this month :P Most importantly, I promise to document it all once the site hits and hopefully my failures and successes will both prompt and warn. If I can find a way to tour across Canada on a song, create a webspace where one musical person can meet another and they can share ideas about our musical future, book an actual paying gig in Toronto or just help eveyone to hate Ben Mulroney just a little more then, "it's aaaaalllll good!"

INSPIRATIONS:

This is very much a work in progress and some of these pubs/sites may have burned down in "accidental" insurance fires since I acquired the addys but give 'em a hit, especially if you're likely to be in the area. Generally, these places put a lot more stock in who they feature than the traditional concert bars and tend to have actual patrons who regularly visit and expect to hear decent talent.

North Bay: www.100georges.com
Sudbury: www.100georges.com
Sault Ste Marie: www.loplops.com
Thunder Bay: www.roxys.ca
Winnipeg: www.wiseguys.mb.ca
Brandon: www.royaloakinn.com
Regina: www.thepumproadhouse.com
Saskatoon: NA
Medicine Hat: NA
Lethbridge: NA
Calgary: www.ceilis.com - www.joyceon4th.com
Edmonton: www.ceilis.com - www.obyrnes.com -
Banff: NA
Kelowna: www.bluegator.net - www.rosespub.com
Kamloops: NA
Vancouver: www.purpleonion.com - www.fairviewpub.ca - www.bar-none.ca
Victoria: www.cambiehostels.com - www.swanshotel.com
Whistler: www.whistlercrabshack.com

Discover and Promote. It's good for the soul.

Big Love,
i220

www.themusicalrevolution.com (tempsite)
themusicalrevolution@yahoo.ca