Sleuth reporter Olak Reece reports on the Jan 21 supper show
Once again a full house came out to celebrate Vancouver's only weekly free show from 7:30-8:30 on Wednesdays... couldn't find any others.
Opening up the show was Chris Kelly kingpin of the band Pender, that was formerly known as That Kelly Boy, and may again take that name. Chris has a nice rich voice and can sure write a mean song and was sounding just fine playing 5 numbers.
Next up was the wonderful Land of Deborah who played some original tunes and a Poison cover. Soundman JLS was working the board as boss Nick... and husband of LOD looked on.
To finish up the night the supper show's hero Super Robertson kicked into a few tunes explaining that they were mostly about himself except one that was about his father's long lost bee hive and then it was the tune "Fuse lit bombs" to end the night... a hit from 21 Tandem Repeats Never Wanted to be Anyone.
Next week January 28 we have Ben Mahony from the Yukon and a few regulars from the V5T postal code Dustin Rilcof, and Super R.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
January 14: Sim Special Supper Show
Cub reporter Mule Hughes forgot his camera but weighs in nevertheless:
With an ailing Super Robertson tending to his ailing family this week, it was left to Max "Sim Special" Arnason to run the Supper Show. And the thing ran like a top, with a healthy crowd of attentive punters, drinks in hand, bums in seats, filling the half of the Railway Club that matters.
Bryce Drohan was up first, singing a set of serious songs in a big Cornell/Vedder/Lanegan-calibre voice. I gathered that these were acoustic arrangements of songs usually performed by his band—no matter, they sounded pretty full-on to me.
Then it was time to put on your black leather for the power-goth big-beat stylings of Simian Special. This set marked the debut of new guitarist Yakir Biton, who's definitely a keeper. He had a really good sense of when and what to play. The hits, they were plentiful: "Freaky Release," "Solid Hole" (raging!), a U2 or maybe a Coldplay cover (I don't know from popular music anymore), and a concluding dip into the communal song well for "Hey Rock Took the Bait." Despite being justifiably cautious about their volume ('tis bad form to rock too loudly at the Supper Show), they played a belting set, with Sim wailing away like Ian Gillan at times. If that sorta thing doesn't pull your pork, then you are dead to me.
With an ailing Super Robertson tending to his ailing family this week, it was left to Max "Sim Special" Arnason to run the Supper Show. And the thing ran like a top, with a healthy crowd of attentive punters, drinks in hand, bums in seats, filling the half of the Railway Club that matters.
Bryce Drohan was up first, singing a set of serious songs in a big Cornell/Vedder/Lanegan-calibre voice. I gathered that these were acoustic arrangements of songs usually performed by his band—no matter, they sounded pretty full-on to me.
Then it was time to put on your black leather for the power-goth big-beat stylings of Simian Special. This set marked the debut of new guitarist Yakir Biton, who's definitely a keeper. He had a really good sense of when and what to play. The hits, they were plentiful: "Freaky Release," "Solid Hole" (raging!), a U2 or maybe a Coldplay cover (I don't know from popular music anymore), and a concluding dip into the communal song well for "Hey Rock Took the Bait." Despite being justifiably cautious about their volume ('tis bad form to rock too loudly at the Supper Show), they played a belting set, with Sim wailing away like Ian Gillan at times. If that sorta thing doesn't pull your pork, then you are dead to me.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
January 7th re-cap
Cameron Dilworth and Jesse Matheson put on a major clinic last week. Standing up on stage together armed with guitars they played songs and sung together. They were funny, smart and quick and they are both excellent singers... perhaps they had a few to many songs about "Super Robertson", but i can let that slide. I was wishing i filmed the show but i just don't have time to deal with that right now.
It was a good time... we made Mule a cake and we ate it all... but then the Canucks lost, and i had to watch it by myself as Super Steve was absent.
Next week (January 14) we will have Simian Special.
It was a good time... we made Mule a cake and we ate it all... but then the Canucks lost, and i had to watch it by myself as Super Steve was absent.
Next week (January 14) we will have Simian Special.
Monday, January 05, 2009
2009
OK,
Clearly there is some confusion about the state of the Super Robertson Supper Show... most likely due to our Hero's poor communication skills and general bad attitude. Well I'm kind of in a good mood now, how could you not be after the Canadian Junior team stomped the balls of the Swedish national Junior hockey team.
The supper show goes on and starting this week (Wednesday January 7) we have the team of Cameron Dilworth and Jese Matheson as the bill. As it sits now these guys will play one supper show per month... perhaps the first one (wednesday in the month). This will give the audience more variety and will set a challenge to S. Robertson to Be BETTER!
Beyond that it is also unlikely that 21 tandem Repeats, as the core 3 guys and a rotating drummer, will remain as a constant in the show. Now there is no ill will here or anything like that, rather an opportunity for us to take a breath, refocus and come back with a new set list and energy... It is quite possible that 21TR may have some new singers when the new program is launched.
Now i would expect that the "new 21TR" songs will be worked into many upcoming super robertson supper shows... actually i will demand that from myself.
so we are going to open up the supper show and get some other fine talented folks out there on Vancouver's premier small venue stage... on wednesday January 28 we have a fine man named Ben Mahony from the Yukon coming down to play.
We even started a facebook page for the supper show to go with the myspace super robertson supper show page, and then there is this damn blog... and i am essentially a computer incompetent.
Which reminds me... i learned about Flash memory lately and apparently you can get a video camera with Flash memory that will save hours of time... because with tape you have to load it into the computer in real time. i can no longer possibly film the show and upload it during the week as i run a household taking care of 3 kids while trying to manage a "web presence", a band that for some reason can't seem to get gigs... which kind of raises another question... why are we never... never mind.
Anyhoo, happy new Year to all and i have many other ideas to keep the Super Robertson Supper Show fresh, but hey right now they are just ideas and anybody can have those... the time is now for action.
SR
Clearly there is some confusion about the state of the Super Robertson Supper Show... most likely due to our Hero's poor communication skills and general bad attitude. Well I'm kind of in a good mood now, how could you not be after the Canadian Junior team stomped the balls of the Swedish national Junior hockey team.
The supper show goes on and starting this week (Wednesday January 7) we have the team of Cameron Dilworth and Jese Matheson as the bill. As it sits now these guys will play one supper show per month... perhaps the first one (wednesday in the month). This will give the audience more variety and will set a challenge to S. Robertson to Be BETTER!
Beyond that it is also unlikely that 21 tandem Repeats, as the core 3 guys and a rotating drummer, will remain as a constant in the show. Now there is no ill will here or anything like that, rather an opportunity for us to take a breath, refocus and come back with a new set list and energy... It is quite possible that 21TR may have some new singers when the new program is launched.
Now i would expect that the "new 21TR" songs will be worked into many upcoming super robertson supper shows... actually i will demand that from myself.
so we are going to open up the supper show and get some other fine talented folks out there on Vancouver's premier small venue stage... on wednesday January 28 we have a fine man named Ben Mahony from the Yukon coming down to play.
We even started a facebook page for the supper show to go with the myspace super robertson supper show page, and then there is this damn blog... and i am essentially a computer incompetent.
Which reminds me... i learned about Flash memory lately and apparently you can get a video camera with Flash memory that will save hours of time... because with tape you have to load it into the computer in real time. i can no longer possibly film the show and upload it during the week as i run a household taking care of 3 kids while trying to manage a "web presence", a band that for some reason can't seem to get gigs... which kind of raises another question... why are we never... never mind.
Anyhoo, happy new Year to all and i have many other ideas to keep the Super Robertson Supper Show fresh, but hey right now they are just ideas and anybody can have those... the time is now for action.
SR
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