Emily Milliken and Super Robertson manned the Supper show last week an played some music to a boisterous crowd. We played a few songs we wrote together this year and a few that we know otherwise.






Jeff Hawker will join Genny trigo and Super Robertson for the supper show on March 25... which is coming up in a few hours.

Girlfriends and Boyfriends played the Super Robertson Supper Show last week and brought half of Vancouver with them... it was more of a show for them than a supper show but everybody was having a good time so i laid low and listened to a fine set of indie tunes. Did i mention they did Joy Division's Shadowplay? Any band doing Joy Division can play with me any day. The band seemed confused over the format which is odd because a few of the members have actually played the supper show before, but then i guess that if you read the SRSS blog then you might think SR has his head up his ass anyhoo... and what is a good band without a few patented mix ups

To close the night was a project presented as "Smashing SR" that SmassBass caught with a digital recording device.



The next show which would be tomorrow will have the lovely and talented Emily Milliken and perhaps some other surprises.

the good news is that i taped the show last week and i have the video up already, so if you are a Bloggerson, as am I, then you are in good shape for a monday night. Oddly enough i was just tinting my fingers together in celebration of how i could possibly be so on the ball when my wife raced up from bed and reminded me what we forgot to do.

You see tomorrow is my daughters 5th Birthday and her first tooth came out today so we set her up for thee old "tooth ferry deal"... but then mom and dad got into the Ceasers and almost forgot... which would have been a bad start for a little girl who is aware, nervous and excited about her big day tomorrow. It's OK dear, the tooth ferry probably had some important things to do on the internet... maybe tomorrow? No worries it's all sorted now and i can go back to my fuzzy little bubble.

Last week was a pure clinic at the Supper Show Cam and Jesse had their natural chemistry:



it's a good combo.

One of the great things about the supper show is it's ability to evolve and i think a great mutation has happened this year with the introduction of the Dilworth/Matheson and guest routine. They call their guests out of the audience who leap up and quickly play a song... sometimes they question the guest as in the case of Gido:



I Myself go the call:



And then there is a guy named Caleb Stull who i would like to define as KING HELL. it's always good to have the bar raised every once in a while... do yourself a favour and check this out:



Caleb is in the band "Parlour steps" so they would be worth checking out for sure.


Cam and Jesse did this song i believe is called Poop machine which i have heard a few times now that i have been to a few Dilworth and Matheson supper shows...



Next week we have special guestsGirlfriends and Boyfriends

And Super Robertson's latest offerings

Another full house at the Supper Show last week (Feb 25 2009), which was good but then a late band , late sound man, Drum stool gone, drummer concerned about the drum kit quality, Fire-Man explaining things too people... so i had to go have a few words with Super Steve... Super Steve, i think, could sense my anxiety over the latest facts my brain was forced to process. The lesson of course is all is well... except of course for the fact that SOME SWINE BASTARD STOLE MY FUCKING DRUM STOOL. it was, i'm sure, one of thee old patented misplacement misunderstanding things where somebody gets an extra drum stool that magically made it out into the club... very annoying indeed.

Anyhoo where was i... well i guess the whole blogaroo is fucked now that i am in the mindset of chewing on the fact that the drum kit has taken a further hit... if you play drums you know that sitting on a chair is officially bullshit.

OK this happened:



Reminds me of live 21TR in the year 2007 for some reason.

Camp Campfire routines never fail however:


And after that we had an insanely strange and elongated turnover but luckily we are professionals:



By the time Andorra played it was so packed i had to move the recording device by the side of the stage. Andorra is a bright new band on the Vancouver scene that mentioned during their set that they are looking for a drummer... i think Adam said "if you play drums and you like whats going on come and talk to us"



So in recap... MY FUCKING DRUM STOOL IS GONE... does anything else matter.

Next week Cameilon Danworth and Jose Maffelson run the supper show if you know what i mean

I have a damaged hand and a lot of things to do this week... so let's get through this dog.

Last week (February 18) there were 3 performers... first off was a man named Adam from the Bob Dylan Society... Super Steve thought it was great and King Dinosaur noted that it was early Bob Dylan. You can never really go wrong with a Bob Dylan song and Adam did the songs justice... Then up came Robert Thomas Murphy and Adam moved to a supporting role with an electric guitar. Robert Thomas Murphy played some original songs that used Dylan'esque chord patterns with more modern rock vocals... it was all good. Last up was our hero S Robertson who once again was treated to a surprisingly attentive audience. The plan was to play with passion... whatever the hell that means... i guess what i found out that it means that a lot of people read the SRSS blog, as people kept referring to the words they read in the blog. How did old SR do? that's a good question and since i opted not to tape the show we will never truly know, which i wished after wards that i did tape the show, but if i had a recorder going... it would it have changed the balance of the universe enough. I remember being a kid playing hockey by myself in the driveway before a Toronto Maple Leaf playoff game... i would make up these scenarios whereby if i could perform a task at a certain lever for a prolonged period of time then the Leafs would win the game... one of those superstitious things... another example would be a few years ago when the Canucks were in the playoffs and i was doing my mail route and i came across a group of native people having a celebration under a giant tree and as i walked by we smiled at each other and they asked me if i wanted to hug the tree... SR's is always game for a little tree hugging so i gave the tree a hug... and the Canucks won that key game. now what do you think i did on the next game day... of course i had to hug the tree.

I don't think we will ever know how old SR did as he was among a room full of friends, and they always say nice things. There were a few folks rooting for a return of 21 tandem repeats... i guess it's good to be missed.

Next week we have Andorra and The Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra and old SR trying to make it all work.

25 random facts about the Super Robertson supper show

1) Monday April 1st 2005 was the first show
2)It was originally called the Super Robertson King Show
3)Last week the most beautiful Jacqui Brown played a scintillating set to a packed house to open the show.
4)Last week Simian Special put on a clinic following Jacqui Brown and did a cover of ROADBED'S Hey Rock took the Bait

5) Every April there is an awards ceremony where the regulars receive GOLD MEDALS for their prowess.
6) Many people get "nick named" if they come out to the show.. Like Super Steve and the latest Gino... who's last name is Mallen, but was mistaken as Malkin.
7) The most coveted awards the SRSS award show are "Best hockey mind" and "best facial hair"
8) Most common sound man over the years would be JLS
9) S Robertson has exposed himself 2x during the show's tenure... the firs time being a Burlesque parody and the 2nd time a joke gone wrong.
10) Next week... or tomorrow the guests will be from Main Belt Entertainment... Bob Dylan Society and Robert Thomas Murphy
11) Super Robertson will play tomorrow with a focus on Passion... playing with passion.
12) the show is free
13) Despite the fact that the local media is constantly complaining about the lack of venues, nobody has seemed to notice the fact that the supper show is a classic case of smart recycling... use what is there but at a different time.
14) From time to time the supper show has a segment called "poem moment" where the audience writes a poem (a few lines each) and the performers perform the poem.
15) S Robertson once did a puppet show using exact dialogue from a conversation he had with the bank manager in an episode that defines "mind numbing stupidity"
16) There is a SRSS live album coming out for good or ill.
17) Simian Special played drums on the best version of Hey Rock's living room
18) One time we had a sprint out on the street outside the railway club and Dave Parchumchuck won.
19) There has been a few aerobics classes
20) One time i led a routine called Beer Yoga
21) Some crazy dude honked a horn that wasn't in key with anything on a regular basis for 2 years every time there was a whiff of improvisation.
22) Carl Fatman has never been to the SRSS
23) On Feb 25 we have a band Andorra and The Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra
24) a guy can drink a lot of beers writing a supper show blog
25) I wrote a song about the supper show the other day

Hi Ho to all of those out there in Blogland... may i suggest you now do something productive like go for a walk. I am home alone with the kids and i have watched all of the hockey highlites (only 2 games today). Where was i?

Did i mention that the class "A" Hammerhead Cam Dilworth kept referring to the show and myself as "Robinson" and not "Robertson" for like the 18th million time... you would think that all of the posters on the club wall that announce "The Super Robertson Supper Show" might help, but it's probably like that gig we did in Nanaimo back in November and we had that huge Banner behind us that said "21 Tandem Repeats" and of course some dude comes up after the show to tell us we were really good and "What was the name of our band" and so WB tells him "21 Tandem Repeats" and he says "OH like the Banner that was behind you when you were playing"... "Yea like that". Kind of funny when ever i write his name in the blog i become paranoid.. "are there 2 l's or just one" and i look it up. But then again one of the members of the Super Robertson Supper show Facebook group came to the show and his last name is Mallin and i came up to him and barked "Malkin what's going on!"... i corrected myself looked up on stage and was called "Robinson" again.

It was of course the 2nd episode of the Cameron Dilworth and Jesse Matheson Supper show... 2 great guys with excellent talent who are learning the supper show ropes doing one show per month. They brought out C.S. Rippin, Jeremy Todd, Super robinson... i mean Robertson and Caleb Stull to play some songs and they had a neat twist on the guest vibe. They just stayed up on stage drinking while the guest played a song... Cam just took off his guitar and passed it to the guest. This can actually be better than trying to orchestrate a massive curtain pull and lineup change that the supper show has seen in the past. It created a nice open feeling of people sharing songs. After the show the leaders were suffering from post Supper show Stress disorder where they thought that the failed to put on a good show. For the record it was a fine show totally worth the price of admission. I just know the feeling.

Next week on February 11 we have Simian Special and Jacqui Brown.

Dustun Rilcof, Ben Mahony and S Robertson

On this night a lot of the "regulars" who frequent the Supper Show were absent, but two large conglomerants of forein exchange students completed january for a string of "sold out" shows.

First up Dustin Rilcof showed his sensitive side, and played some songs that bordered on... love songs. the Canucks were up 2-1 at this time. Rilcof's set demonstraited some excelent finger picking and some fine melodies... but like the exchange students i missed a lot of the words. It was a great set and i'll give him 4 stars.

Next up was Ben Mahony, a man who has lived all over this fine Country and played a geographical set with songs written in all different provinces at various times in his life. He seemed like a king hell fellow and he brought some guy he met at an open stage in Toronto a month back. His songs had good energy and drove like an old school Buick down a mountain road... which reminded me about this time i hitchhiked back from 100 mile house.

Last up with the rapid turnover was our hero, the Kingpin of the Supper Show... Super Robertson. The crowd was incredibly good to him... people listened to the songs applauded and then sat in silence for the next song... this definatly caught SR off guard but like a veteran soilder he adapded. He played a fine version of the littles which earned him a few CD sales. Go tiger go!

After the show we got to catch the patented Vancouver Canuck collapse as they turned a 3-1 lead into a 5-3 loss. You could tell that Super Steve had seen this type of thing happen before and smartly made a quick exit after the 2nd period.

On Wednesday February 4 2009 we have the 2nd edition of the Jesse Matheson and Cameron Dilworth Supper Show... and they have invited S Robertson, CS Rippin, and a few others to come and play a song. Lets fire it up boys.

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.

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.

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.

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

on wednesday December 24

@ 7:30 go to your computer and watch this...

tht can be the Supper Show for this week



it's our man Dave Hind with one of his percussive contraptions.

I remember the old days when i started playing music... Dave had a studio outside of london, i think it was an old gas station and we would go out there for Jams... It was usually cold as hell but there was a heater and lots of things to make rhythm on. And there would always be a very long version of the song "Wicked Style". A song where the pocket has been lost it was this hypnotic rhythm on a finger hammering d chord except the d was played 1 fret up... and then it resolved to an e major. I have the feeling it might have been one of those ideas that was never really that good in the first place... great for rhythm grooves and easy to solo over. It was one we always hit at those jams... i remember one time there was this weird bearded guy who was always on acid and we hit that song and he was dancing away in a trance and when it was over he said "that was wicked man, you guys should be playing the Embassy"... the Embassy of course was the shithole dive bar/ hotel/ music venue at the time. Now that i think about it i don't think it was the embassy... it's hard to remember anything anymore... I think the embassy is the actual good venue...

The place the bearded guy on acid said we should have been playing would have been about the same as where we were playing except we wouldn't be able to drink our own spirits rather pay for them at a bar... there of course would have been other side affects as well... = more acid eating beard men.

December 10 re-cap

well i didn't film the show and that made for a better week... Step one in making the supper show more manageable. I am a good employee... i stay on task, for good or ill.

So i guess i can now write anything, no longer bound by the truth... a first for me as a blogger. somebody is shaking their head out there... i can feel it.

It was a good show, there were no drums until i pulled Mule Hughes out of the crowd to play on the last 2 songs. It gave him a good chance to scope out our backs so he could find out where to put the knife... (small inside joke).

The supper show works well with a more toned down (not full band) feel. it gives people the opportunity to talk over the music rather than having to shout over it.

Next week (December 17) is the last supper show of the year, and on January 7 2009 i have managed to talk Cameron Dilworth and Jesse Matheson into doing the supper show... so you could say that the supper show just got stronger... they are going to do 1 Wednesday per month.

The plot thickens and the days go on, and The Super Robertson Supper Show will re-invent itself again.

Have a good Holidays and remember to enjoy all the good people out there.

The supper show

Last week was fun... we broke it up a bit... you see ace guitarist Willingdon Black was out of town so ace guitarist Snow Leopard brought down a guitar and Stupid Robertson went to Bass. It was fun, did i mention that the ever amusing and stellarly skilled Shawn Killaly was on the drums.

It got me thinking about our little tour a few weeks back, and more precisely the makeup of the band for the tour. It was essentially SR and 3 excellent guitar players with one of the excellent guitar players playing excellent drums (Shockk), and Alvaro (Snow Leopard) on bass (as per usual in 21TR) and WB on guitar.

So the supper show is closing out this year and is almost 4 years old now... anybody want to take the reins? i think i am kind of burning out on the old super show...

Just thinking... is the super robertson supper show worth anything to anybody? I say that in a very real way and i say it to a person like myself who does see a value in having a house gig in a good house with good sound and a good location with good food and all... are you somebody or do you know somebody who would like this opportunity, see it as an opportunity and treat it with professionalism and respect to the sound equipment. Perhaps we could go rotating weeks which would cut the load in half and bring greater variety to the show.

I'll keep doing it for now but you know, we will see.

so last week we did a fine number called "Jeff Younger drops a bar of soap and then eyeballs Raoule"

enjoy:

Nov 26 re-cap

Well 21 tandem repeats are back from their coastal tour minus guitar player Willingdon Black who is in Hawaii looking into a hotel gig for the band.

Brock Pytel came back to the supper show after a long absence... he played some tunes to an very chatty crowd



Brock then moved onto the drums and we were joined by our good friend Simian Special



Finding our groove we hit an old Knockin' dog number called The Drumheller Boogie where Willingdon Black's presence was felt when Alvaro played a variation of his "dish pig" riff



and then we closed the show with the key of 5, a song from out latest CD "no junk mail please"

Nov 20 @ the Railway Club

Nov 20- Railway Club 10:00 PM
Nov 21- The Dancing Bean (Chemainus B.C) 8:00 PM
Nov 22- The Cambie (Nanaimo) 10:00 PM
Nov 23- Logan's (Victoria) 4:00 PM

now i know how we did last week

I watched the tape... and made it into mini song movies.

it was in fact the rhythm section that put on the clinic last week after all. it left me wondering about the idea of just replacing SR with a goat, a bucket of oats and a tarp (for the goat shit). Just let the goat eat the oats and call it a show.

Of course I'm joking... the SPCA would be all over that with some animal cruelty bit. if i were a goat, and i am from time to time, i would prefer a bar and a bucket of oats to a cold wet barn. How could i truly know what it is like to be a goat... as in the hoofed ungulate.

where was i... Oh yea the rhythm section stomped some balls.

Shawn Killaly on drums

I wonder how we did last week.

I haven't look at the footage yet which is an odd perspective in writing a little blogaroo, which of course is why it is an approach worth taking.... For the science of it all. Did you see this science experiment, these things are important for the grand "lessons"... which i had just typed "lesions". Almost another freebee there Mule, who for that matter was at the show eating a nice supper and thinking all of those Mule thoughts during the show.

It was a good night to pull drum duty as there was a fine kit on the stage for us to use and perhaps that contributed TO THE FUCKING RHYTHM SECTION MUTINY that occurred on the stage that night. Luckily the super robertson supper show is a place where one can get away with a rhythm section mutiny... from time to time.
where was i, the sound was good.. there was a SKA version of Bengal Tiger that i wish i could have back... i think there might be a fade out in the "official" online version.

Missed a chance to do "transmission"... not sure what i even want to do anymore.



damn the babies are up.

Nov 5 re-cap

Our guest last week was Clare Love, she was great and i made movies of her set and sent them to her. I figure that since she has her own video upload page then i don't have to worry about being responsible for the © issues... of course i always ask for permission. But i do want to do the right thing for everybody... you come and play the supper show you don't get paid in money... you are treated like a human and if you want you get some video of your set... for good or ill. Anyhoo, if she puts it up i'll post the fucker.

we did this... now there is a nice new red curtain @ the Railway club so i started thinking in terms of bright lights. Turn all the lights up i told the sound man at the start of the show, which went over like a lead balloon with the band, so the lights got turned down again.