Tag: The Sadies

Ep. #56: Dallas Good

Post author By vish
Post date December 4, 2013

Dallas Good is a tremendously gifted multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, Ontario who is best known for singing and playing guitar in the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band, the Sadies. The hardest working, most prolific band I know, the Sadies have been conquering this planet one town at a time for almost 20 years, collaborating with a long list of luminaries and making their own mark with each new album better than the last. Their new record is called Internal Sounds and is available now courtesy of Outside Records in Canada and Sadie plays shows in Hamilton and London, Ontario this week with more dates to follow. Here Dallas and I talk about him producing the new Sadies LP, how it compares to working with people like Steve Albini and Gary Louris, how the band dynamic is tested when he’s the boss, why some new Sadie songs sound like the Band, the band’s punk pedigree and whether punks enjoy Sadie as much as folk festival people do, how the road can be weird, the time Dallas broke his leg and missed a show in Saskatoon, working with Buffy Sainte-Marie, what’s up with Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Career Suicide, and the Good Family, the song “STORY 19,” and more.

Related links: thesadies.net vishkhanna.com

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Tags Buffy Sainte-Marie, Career Suicide, Dallas Good, Gary Louris, Outside Music, Saskatoon, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Steve Albini, the Band, The Good Family, The Sadies

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Ep. #40: Sarah Harmer + Graham White of Enbridge

Post author By vish
Post date October 3, 2013

Sarah Harmer is a very gifted Canadian singer-songwriter who originally hails from Burlington, Ontario and is one of this country’s most successful and respected artists. Each of her five studio albums have been critically acclaimed and her latest, 2010’s Oh Little Fire, was no exception. Harmer is also a noted activist and advocate for environmental and political causes close to her heart. Eight years ago, she co-founded PERL or Protecting Escarpment Rural Land, an organization which successfully campaigned to prohibit a gravel development that would’ve destroyed parts of the wilderness in the Niagara Escarpment. This Sunday October 6 in Mel Lastman Square near Toronto, Harmer and the Environmental Defense organization are holding an event called Rock the Line, which features short sets by MINOTAURS, Hayden, Gord Downie and the Sadies, and Harmer herself. It’s meant to draw attention to the Stop Line 9 movement and to protest Enbridge’s controversial plans to modify the Line 9 pipeline running between Sarnia and Montreal. Graham White is the manager of business communications at Enbridge, which, according to the company’s website, “transports, generates, and distributes energy across North America, and employs more than 10,000 people in Canada and the United States.” Despite the fact that Enbridge states that they adhere to a strong set of core values–namely “safety, integrity, and respect”–some Ontarions are up in arms about the company’s plans to modify their use of the Line 9 pipeline in Ontario. Both Harmer and White appear in separate conversations, which took place minutes apart, to offer insight about their respective and wildly divergent takes on Line 9.

Related links: environmentaldefence.ca sarahharmer.com enbridge.com vishkhanna.com

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Tags #noline9, #RocktheLine, #StopLine9, Enbridge, Environmental Defence, Gord Downie, Graham White, Hayden, MINOTAURS, Rock the Line, Sarah Harmer, The Sadies

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Ep. #10: Sled Island & Calgary’s flood + Houndmouth + Derek Christoff on James Gandolfini + Mike Belitsky of the Sadies

Post author By vish
Post date June 27, 2013

Weird tone to this one. Drew Marshall of the Sled Island music festival gives a firsthand account of the flooding that has devastated Calgary and forced Sled Island to cancel its plans, Matt Myers of the U.S. band Houndmouth (who play Montreal on June 27 and Toronto on June 28) talks about the fake ‘folk revival’ going on right now, Derek Christoff, a.k.a. D-Sisive, remembers the late, great James Gandolfini who got him through his father’s death, and, because his Boston Bruins lost the Stanley Cup to the Chicago Blackhawks, I make a random call to Mike Belitsky of the Sadies.