Cameron Dilworth put on a full clinic this night. This guy is good. The Show was called The New Music Super Robertson Supper Show and it was called that in jest because a festival called New Music West was starting in Vancouver that night. The festival had to change it's name from Music West, because it was run by a bunch of shifty hacks that knew a few things about soaking indie bands for bogus application fee's all the while pushing the same old same old.
My Old Band ROADBED use to loose 20-30 bones per annum, trying to get heard through that industry outlet. It was always the same bands that got to play. Later, like a few years ago... Shockk, who was with me in Roadbed, and left to play in Mongoose, ended up getting a show there with Mongoose. The only problem was that Mongoose was on tour in another part of the country at the time. Mongoose never applied... they were just a big band in the city who got to the head of the line without even trying. i recall Shockk saying "I have become what i hated". Beware of industry things... they are like a bucket of leaches that latch on to the hopes of music folk and suck them dry.
Probably why New Music Super Robertson is one of the finer festivals in town... no money is exchanged.
Cameron Dilworth
21 Tandem Repeats
and the "Poem Moment"
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