From March 10 to April 5, I’ll be playing drums with Wax Mannequin and Mathias Kom of the Burning Hell on something we’ve dubbed, the Hear Some Evil Tour. I’ve learned how to play their songs and we’re feeling pretty good about things. Oh, and I’ll be documenting our trip every week day on my CBC Radio 3 show, the Wrath of Khanna, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM EST.

If you or anyone else might be interested in covering our shows press-wise here’s a helpful tour EPK link with hi-res photos, music, a PR, etc. If you know of anywhere in the following cities where we might be able to crash, that’d be helpful too. Here are the tour dates:

March 10 – Hamilton ON @ This Ain’t Hollywood
March 11 – Peterborough ON @ The Red Dog* (no Vish)
March 12 – Sudbury ON @ The Townehouse
March 13 – Thunder Bay ON @ Black Pirates Pub
March 14 – Winnipeg MB @ Lo Pub (Haiti benefit)
March 15 – Bruno SK @ All Citizens
March 16 – Edmonton AB @ Empress Ale House
March 18 – Vancouver BC @ The Railway Club
March 19 – Hornby Island, BC@ Joking Ballpark
March 20 – Victoria BC @ Logan’s
March 21 – Courtenay BC @ Joe’s Garage
March 22 – Nanaimo BC @ Queen’s Hotel
March 23 – Kelowna BC @ Habitat
March 24 – Penticton BC @ Voodoo’s
March 25 – Kimberley BC @ The Green Phoenix
March 26 – Cranbrook BC @ Finnegan’s Wake
March 27 – Nelson BC @ The Royal
March 28 – Ymir BC @ The Schoolhouse
March 30 – Medicine Hat AB – The Ottoman Lounge
March 31 – Lethbridge AB – The Slice
April 1 – Calgary AB @ The Palomino
April 2 – Regina SK @ The Exchange
April 3 – Winnipeg MB @ Lo Pub
April 4 – Thunder Bay @ Black Pirates Pub
April 5 – Sault Ste Marie @ Bottoms Up

So yeah, there you go. If you wanna contact me about any of this, please do.

See you soon I hope.

thanks,
vk

This week the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to present a radio special devoted to Jason Collett and Zeus at 8:05 AM EST.

Jason Collett & Zeus

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vk

This week the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to welcome Efrim Menuck of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra to the program at 8:05 AM EST.

Efrim Menuck

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vk

This week the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to welcome Stuart A. Staples of Tindersticks to the program at 8:05 AM EST.

Stuart A. Staples

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vk

Thursday March 11, 2010
KYEO & The CSA Present:

THE BONFIRE BALL

STARRING:

JASON COLLETT

ZEUS

BAHAMAS

Toronto, Ontario artists Jason Collett, Zeus and Bahamas have announced a North American revue tour featuring all three artists performing together and alone during a night long set of incredible music. The three acts have a long history of collaboration, as intertwined as their musical lineage. Instead of the typical show in which each act plays its own set, Collett, Zeus and Bahamas will all take the stage together, playing songs by all three. At times you will find Collett strumming softly on the guitar alone; Zeus pounding out their rich pop numbers; or Bahamas melting the rocks in your glass; then find them all back together again in full force. The energy, the creativity, the inherent knowledge each musician brings to the stage, of their fellow musician, will make for a unique and exciting night, each and every night along the tour. The Bonfire Ball will kick off first in March at Canadian Music Week in Toronto and reaches Guelph the next night, before heading to Austin for the SXSW Music Festival. The tour continues west from Seattle across Canada and the U.S. midwest, wrapping in Ontario, April 17.

Broken Social Scene member Jason Collett will see the release of his fourth full-length, Rat A Tat Tat, March 9 on Arts & Crafts. Produced by Mike O’Brien and Carlin Nicholson of Zeus, Collett began writing the album last summer in rural Ontario with Afie Jurvanen aka Bahamas. Those bare-bone recordings made there in the cabin would spawn what is Collett’s most inspired album to date.

Zeus will release their debut full-length, Say Us, on February 23 through Arts & Crafts. Featuring three songwriter/vocalists, Mike O’Brien, Carlin Nicholson and Neil Quin, who swap between guitar, bass and organ, with drummer Rob Drake, Zeus emerged having performed as Collett’s backing band, then supporting band, in Fall 2008. Zeus released their debut, the Sounds Like Zeus ep, in June ’09, quickly building a loyal fanbase in Toronto and beyond. Exclaim! Magazine called them, “One of the best live acts around.” The track, “How Does It Feel?” was featured in a nationwide Nissan commercial and Zeus spent the Fall ’09 supporting Cuff the Duke in Canada before making their U.S. debut at the CMJ Music Marathon.

Bahamas is the solo project of Afie Jurvanen, whose debut, Pink Strat, was released in July of 2009 on Nevado Records. His previous band, Paso Mino, consisted of Zeus members Rob Drake and Mike O’Brien and was Collett’s backing band for 2005’s Idols of Exile release. Following Collett’s touring cycle, he was asked to join Feist’s band, whose lengthy tour schedule forced Paso Mino into hiatus (leading to the eventual formation of Zeus, which took over as Collett’s backing band). During the years he was on tour with Feist, Jurvanen continued to write songs, and upon his return spent a week in a cabin in rural Ontario recording Pink Strat. Response to Pink Strat has been excellent–Jurvanen was asked to play solo directly before Elvis Costello at last year’s Winnipeg Folk Fest, he stole the show at the recent Hillside Inside event, and was chosen as support for select dates of the current Wilco tour. You can hear his guitar work on albums by Hayden, Jason Collett, Amy Millan, The Stills, Buck 65, Feist, and many others.

Special Guest:

DJ Charless

Thursday March 11, 2010
The Ebar 41 Quebec St. Guelph
Doors at 10:00 PM
All-ages/Licensed

$12 with non-perishable food item
$14 without

Tickets Available:
The Bookshelf – 41 Quebec St. – Guelph
Orange Monkey – 005 Princess St. – Waterloo
CSA Office – University of Guelph – UC Room 274
(non-perishable food items will be accepted at ticket outlets)

All proceeds benefit Out on the Shelf
All food items collected will benefit the Guelph Food Bank.

musicprogramming [at] gmail [dot] com

UPCOMING KYEO/CSA SHOWS:

THURSDAY APRIL 15: OLD MAN LUEDECKE – JESSY BELL SMITH – PAT LEPOIDEVIN @ Ebar – 10:00 PM – $8 w/food donation /$10 – AA/LIC benefit for: www.outontheshelf.ca

This week the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to welcome two guests to our program this week.

First up, Douglas McCombs of Tortoise joins us at 7:20 AM EST.

Douglas McCombs

Then, at 8:05 AM EST, we speak to Ian Blurton about his new album and project, Ian Blurton+Huron=Happy Endings.

Ian Blurton

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vk

This week the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to welcome Daniel Romano of Daniel, Fred & Julie and Attack in Black to the program at 8:05 AM EST.

Daniel Romano, Julie Doiron, & Fred Squire

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vk

KYEO & The CSA Present:

Thursday February 18, 2010

EVAN GORDON & THE SAD CLOWNS
+
IAN BLURTON+HURON=HAPPY ENDINGS

Evan Gordon & The Sad Clowns

Over the past 15 years, Evan Gordon has made some of the most groundbreaking rock ‘n’ roll to ever come out of Canada. Gordon has left an indelible mark on early songs and records by Jim Guthrie, Royal City, Constantines, and even his father, folk singer James Gordon, all of whom have gone on to find audiences well beyond Wellington County. Now a member of such notable bands as the Magic, Islands, and the Skeletones Four, Evan’s been so busy that he’s neglected his own band, the Sad Clowns. All that changes with the dirty, sexy rock ‘n’ roll quintet’s first show in forever. If you like your classic rock from the future, don’t miss the return of Evan Gordon and the Sad Clowns.

Ian Blurton+Huron=Happy Endings

Huron is a rock ‘n’ roll band from Hamilton, Ontario. Formed in early 2008, by the end of that year they began tracking their debut record with producer Sir Ian Blurton (Weakerthans, Cursed, Amy Millan). The result will see the light of day this spring, on Latent Recordings/Fontana North. Huron describe it as “a big old southern-fried Sabbath riffin’ affair, with heavy nods to electric Neil Young, the Beatles and The Band. Sometimes the Floyd and the Dead get the better of us and it gets psychedelic. Often it’s some combination of those.” Most recently Huron have teamed up with Blurton to form a new band called Happy Endings. Best known for leading Change of Heart and C’mon, Blurton explores his love of heavy, psychedelic, stoner rock in Happy Endings. For the project’s new record, Blurton played almost every instrument on record himself, with the exception of a couple of appearances by Damon Richardson on drums. Scott from Raising the Fawn has a big vocal part on the record; Michael Thompson has an incredible trumpet part that lasts about 15 seconds but is unbelievably memorable; and Kevin Drew plays guitar. For this show, Huron will play their own set and then back Blurton up as Happy Endings.

Special Guest:

DJ Charless

Thursday February 18, 2010
The Ebar 41 Quebec St. Guelph
Doors at 10:00 PM
All-ages/Licensed

$8 with non-perishable food item
$10 without

Tickets Available:
The Bookshelf – 41 Quebec St. – Guelph
Orange Monkey – 005 Princess St. – Waterloo
CSA Office – University of Guelph – UC Room 274
(non-perishable food items will be accepted at ticket outlets)

All proceeds benefit Out on the Shelf
All food items collected will benefit the Guelph Food Bank.

musicprogramming [at] gmail [dot] com

UPCOMING KYEO/CSA SHOWS:

THURSDAY MARCH 11: THE BONFIRE BALL ft. JASON COLLETT – ZEUS – TBA @ Ebar – 9:30 PM $12 w/food donation /$14 – AA/LIC benefit for: www.outontheshelf.ca

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This Wednesday the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to welcome Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields to the program at 8:05 AM EST.

Stephin Merritt

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vk

This week the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to welcome Charles Spearin of Do Make Say Think to the program at 8:05 AM EST.

Do Make Say Think

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