i tend to be hard on myself

the supper show videos are better than this

last week and this week

Our special guest will be the lovely and talented Emily Milliken, who sings and plays the bass ukulele. She came by the house last night and we wrote a song so we will give that a go as well.

Last week our guest was veteran singer Jacqui Brown who is fresh back in town from a stint in L.A. She played some tunes, 21TR played some tunes and then we all got up together and pulled something out of nothing.




now we definitely have to get the light on the beautiful woman when we do these things

October 15 re-cap

Vale, making their second appearance at the supper show put on a fine clinic. This is a band that the supper show people seem to really like... look for some gold medals to come Vale's way next April if you know what i mean... and if you don't (know what i mean) you should really get your head out of your ass.

Now where was I... Oh yea i was going to insult the readers, i guess i did that.

Next week, or more appropriately tomorrow, we have a special Guest by the name of Jacqui Brown. She is a beautiful woman with a wonderful voice and she will be performing solo. For our part, our man Simian Special will be on drums... is it time for POEM MOMENT?



Notice i got the fucking date wrong? I said it was the 14th... which happened to be election day... was i just hoping for a re-vote?

October 8 re-cap

DCR was in town from Edmonton, but for some reason didn't play. It was OK because Klagg came back from the dead to reminded Vancouver what good songwriting is. It was a great show and a good lesson on the power of those songs. For me "Toyah" and "Skytrain surfin'" have been going through the head all week.

Super Robertson opened the show with a few numbers, and then a Beggars/21 Tandem Repeats hybrid finished the show with versions of "frusterated man", from the Roadbed Represented CD, "Wishing machine" a 21TR classic and a work in progress titled "Nothing was heard".

last week re-cap

The best part about last week was that i showed some films... (episodes of the Carl Fatman show) so i didn't film the set which meant that this past week i was spared the inane task of making internet movies of the songs and posting them for viewing for a few dozen people.

Which of course begs the question of WHY do i do it? I should probably let somebody like SMASH answer that question because he is more likely to come up with a righteous uplifting answer that would leave one with an overwhelming sense of patriotism towards one's music scene, perhaps even going so far as to use the phrase "National Treasure" in a summary statement that might make one feel foolish for even asking the question in the first place.

never let the truth get in the way of a good story
- J. Frank Dobie

It was a weird night to show movies as a whole floor from a female college residence came to the show to celebrate a birthday party... apparently they had heard a 21 tandem repeats song on the radio and heard about the show so they thought they would come down town early and warm up for the evening... But it was just me in a suit and a projector showing short TV like episodes of a show i made that are full of constant shameless self promotion.

Imagine a pack of young excited music hungry folks confused while Carl Fatman interviews Shockk on the merits of the band ROADBED.

I did play "what's in the bag", "the man" and "Robertson's dream orchard"

Next week (October 8) a rare and special treat Klagg... who have no NMC page that i can find???