Two Hours Traffic, The Danks, and Danny Sather will be playing at The Ottoman Longue, putting on an indie-rock-extravaganza. Two Hours Traffic and The Danks are both coming down on tour from their east-coast homeland of Charlottetown.
The Ottoman Lounge
502 South Railway St. Se
Medicine Hat, AB
Thursday, November 20, 2008
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Tickets: $5
Two Hours Traffic, The Danks, Danny Sather Poster
Two Hours Traffic @ MySpace
The Danks @ MySpace
Click the jump below to check out some sweet vids!
One Shot Left is a punk rock band originating from Medicine Hat, Alberta. They have been together for over ten years and have been a headlining band for much of that time, and what is more, they have toured extensively across Canada to boot.
One Shot Left - Photography from their MySpace
The band is fronted by guitarist and vocalist Jeff Barrett and to either of his sides are guitarist Blair Cooney and bassist Corey Tapp, both of whom provide backing vocals, and drummer Chad Schiebelbein. The band has received much praise from fans, including crediting from sources such as The Leader Post, Beatroute Magazine and PunkRocks.net. They are currently signed to MeterRecords.
One Shot Left - Red Deer 2005
They continue to play across south eastern Alberta, mostly between Calgary or their hometown of Medicine Hat, but in either case, if you manage to see one of their shows, you will invariably be in for a night of listening to awesome music and be provoked by an unstoppable force driving you to either tap your toe, or even jump in the pit.
Poul Nielsen is a renaissance man of the art community. Actually, The word ‘community’ does not
actually do his name and accomplishments justice, a more appropriate term would be a renaissance
man of the art world, because world indeed, Poul has traveled far and wide in his pursuit of
not only artistic knowledge and discovery, but also far and wide to show his artistic expression
and talent.
Portrait of Terrin
Poul Nielsen is no stranger to the Medicine Hat community at large, and it is not unusual to see
his artwork anywhere you might look in The Medicine Hat College. As a teacher for Visual
Communications, he has influenced countless individuals with his artistic insight and creative
suggestion, but his career is not confined to Medicine Hat. Poul has had exhibitions in many
places outside of Canada, including Denmark, The United States, and China.
Inside / Out #7
Tobie Laliberte, Medicine Hat (he actually isn’t from here, just living here) artist and musician, and father of two is this months featured artist. He is in his third year (and final year) of the Visual Communications program here at the Medicine Hat College. He also has won 12 consecutive french spelling bee contests. Actually that last one is a lie, I don’t know that much about him, although he is french and of the Canadian persuasion (if you couldn’t tell by his name). Below you will see two of his videos that he had created in Video 1 class during 2007.
Tobie Laliberte - Photography via his Facebook
Executed in 1979 (2007)
View his other video and some art after the jump.
Cypress Center
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Doors open at 8:00PM
Two Canadian bands will be rockin’ the Cypress Center on November 10 here in the hat. Both of these bands I haven’t listened to in quite some time. I have fond memories of feeling “hardcore” listening to probably Finger Eleven’s hardest song called “Drag You Down” whilst still in high-school.
Finger Eleven - Photography from MySpace
The first time I heard of The Dudes was actually when I was downloading some music by The Strokes and they just happened to have a couple songs hidden in the archive file… for some reason. Anyways, I realized why they were in there, because they kind of sound similar in ways, in that indie-rock-sounding-kind-of-way that was popular years ago – however I still say they are more similar to bands like Modest Mouse, which is not a bad thing at all.
The Dudes - Photography from MySpace
Tickets are available at the Stampede Box Office, The Medicine Hat Mall Customer Service Kiosk, or by calling 403-527-1234.
Videos and links after the jump.
The Ottoman Lounge
502 South Railway St. Se
Medicine Hat, AB
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 9:00pm
Tonight, starting at 9PM, Corby Dorner, Jason Helman, and Troy Biccum (also known as Jones) with special guest Tim Herman will be playing at The Ottoman Lounge. This isn’t the first time Tim will be playing with Jones and will not be the last. There is several more performances planned in November and December.
Tim Herman is a guitar instructors at the United Conservatory of Music here in Medicine Hat and even has a music video.
Tim Herman’s “Wrap Your Arms” – 1997
The Esplanade is hosting two David Hoffos installations entitled “Catastrophe” and “Another City”. David Hoffos is a prolific Lethbridge-based artist or “video/installation artist” if you prefer. The official name of the show is called “Disaster & Desire” and also features “Bedroom Window” which was created by Art 30 class students from McCoy High School. David Hoffos had an artist residency at the school from October 1th4 to October 24th and worked with the students to demonstrate all the techniques, ideas, and everything that goes into making a full environment art piece.
David Hoffos - Disaster & Desire at the Esplanade
The reception took place on October 24th, 7 PM and featured a live performance of “womandflutter” by Decidedly Jazz Danceworks from Calgary. Unfortunately this was a one-time showing and if you weren’t there, you will not get to see it – well at least not at the Esplanade. It was composed by Amon Tobin, choreographed by Kimberly Copper and featured some projected elements by David Hoffos. Overall the performance was very hypnotic at times and the movements of the dancers and projections of the dancers fit very well with the chaotic jungle-esque experimental beat music in the background. There was even a bonus track at the end.
David Hoffos, Another City, installation detail - Photography via the Esplanade website
The installations are up from October 15th to November 30th, 2008; however “Bedroom Window” has only been set up since October 24th. More on David Hoffos after the jump.
Flogging Molly arrived, Dave King’s unmistakable Irish voice filled the venue and the crowd was on its toes.
Paddy’s Lament came from the stage, a song from Flogging Molly’s new album – ‘Float’ and the crowd dived in and immersed themselves in the Irish punk rock. The 7-piece band busted out about 25 songs from their just over a decade long repertoire including older favourites: Salty Dog, Drunken Lullabies, Seven Deadly Sins, and many songs from their new album including Requiem For A Dying Song, Float, Lightning Storm, and others. Flogging Molly proved there is no rival, accompanied by Dave King putting down his guitar and dancing around on stage and his newly wedded bride and fellow band member, Bridget Regan, sawing on her violin. The rest of the band performed a myriad of banjo solos, accordion solos, mandolin solos and many other seemingly obscure instruments that ten years ago, would have been unfamiliar to the punk going community, but now are beloved by them.
The crowd managed to pull Flogging Molly back out for an encore which they were more than thrilled to perform and after an hour and a half, the show had came to an end, leaving the crowd well pleased and cheering.
If you haven’t seen them already, here is the complete listing of all Medicine Hat College videos that have been uploaded on to YouTube by the college. The last two, the ones with the students are a little cheesy and even maybe a little awkward at parts; however, the are pretty decent for being made locally – if they were made locally that is.
Life after Medicine Hat College
Click the jump below to watch the other two videos.
Bad Religion, obviously eager to meet their fans, were mostly all out in the crowd during the first two opening acts of Ultimate Power Duo and The Briggs. Jay Bentley and Brooks Wackerman walked around, watching the show, checking out the sales tables and talking to fans. Time passed and it was their turn to perform.
Bad Religion, sans-Gurewitz, nonchalantly stepped out of the darkness around the stage of the (Venue). They have been on the stage since the early 80’s, and fourteen albums later, they have nothing to prove to anyone. As of late, their shows seem to have become almost a time for them to party and fool around while performing for their fans instead of just a job where they get on stage, perform and leave.
21st Century Digital Boy kicked off their set list, an old time favourite, and followed by the newer epic, New Dark Ages. The new epic was followed by their blast from the past, Suffer. The first three songs encompassed Bad Religion’s nearly 30 year career in the Punk Rock business, and nearly 30 years later, they have not lost their edge and appeal to the crowd. They performed a surprising amount of twenty-eight songs, including an acoustic set from their deluxe reissue of New Maps Of Hell which included such songs as Won’t Somebody and Dearly Beloved. The crowd left Greg Graffin on stage after that, much to his joking dismay, and he began a song solo. Bored and Extremely Dangerous came out of his guitar and voice and during the break in the song, the lights dimmed, he got off stage, the silhouettes of the rest of the band coming on stage could be seen and for the latter half of the song, the band returned in full on punk rock, contrasting and juxtaposing the acoustic first half.
Bad Religion performed many such staples as Generator, Infected, Sorrow, No Control, American Jesus, and some older more rarer songs such as News From The Front and Anesthesia.
Despite a nearly 30-year long career, Bad Religion shows no signs of slowing down or waining in their art.
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