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Yeah! Happy birthday dude, hope to see you at some point this summer!

Say hi to Nina for me

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If someone can get a 2000-km beer bong over the border to me in a farmer's field in Tennessee, I'll participate in the beerfest for sure. I'll just need someone in Ottawa to load it up for me once in a while.

:) :)

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What a nice thought. ::

At least he's not a stuffy boring idiot like Mahoney, or a Flake like Mike Murphy. And he has experience. And he's well spoken. And he's got integrity. And he's NDP. And he's not a Liberal. (that was for Hux too)

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[color:"orange"] Ed! has got my vote in Ottawa Centre.

I'm there for the 2nd night, thanks to the gentleman MarcO.

Hope to see y'all there. Think I'm heading back to Ottawa right after the show, have to work on the Monday morning.

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I think money has a lot to do with it. It just doesn't make sense for independant promoters to pay $5000US not knowing what the draw will be like on a Tuesday night for a band that hasn't played up here before.

Maybe the independent promoter has to do more market research then to avoid shelling out the cash. If House of Blues (who has lots of knowledge in this area) won't bring a band to town, why should we assume an independent promoter can do it better?

Or maybe I misunderstood your point. It's Monday after all

The marriage proposal during their set was pretty cool too.

Anyone we know??

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it is a real shame that bands seem to be discouraged about crossing afictional line.

Damn those fictional lines.

The plain truth is that it costs money, time and considerable effort to cross the border and play in Canada (likewise I'm sure for our Canadian bands playing in the states).

I'm not pissed about it though. What good would that do?

I just really appreciate it when good bands come play in Canada. Like last night I saw Gomez TEAR SHIT UP in Ottawa. But there were still 400 tickets available at showtime. Maybe that's another good reason; lack of audience...

Gomez are awesome. Everyone who hasn't heard / seen them should definitely get on it soon. Next Canadian date is August 6 at Lollapalooza in Toronto. Although they said they'd come back to Ottawa ASAP. For those who say Ottawa crowds are lame, 600 raging people last night might have a fair argument for you.

GOMEZ!!

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yup, bye bye siket disc

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And I thought the quote about his daughters was funny, because the first thing I thought is that Mike would be hitting on them.

Excellent work Sean, you beat me to it...

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Internet presale is on right now - thanks to Booche for the heads-up.

Go ****HERE**** and scroll down to the Hull show. Tickets are US$32 plus other charges, probably works out to around $50 CDN.

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Tix onsale at Ticketmaster at noon tomorrow

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Robert Guertin Arena

The Pixies just announced a November 28 show in Hull!!!

Tickets on sale tomorrow at noon!!

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They're playing on the 5th in Toronto as part of Lollapalooza, and I imagine they're playing the 7th or 8th in Montreal

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Jon Spencer is June 29, one day before they play MTL for the Jazz Fest.

the MTL Jazz Fest looks pretty good this year

Galactic, Ani, Roots, uh... Jon SPencer... That's all I can remember off the top of my head, but there are more top-shelf acts. FUll lineup was released last week

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And let's not forget Jon Spencer Blues Explosion late June at Babylon fer Chrisakes,....

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OK, so Wilco is playing Capital on August 4

Sonic Youth is playing Capital on August 6

Spearhead and BSS are playing the Folk Festival.

What's happening to Ottawa? This is awesome!!

Also, anyone have ticket infor for the Wolfe Island Music show in Kingston? This year it's the Rheos, Sadies, Joel Plaskett and a few others... Good times...

And everyone should be at Capital on June 6 for Gomez.

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yup, no worries here MarcO. I love how PTBM always makes the Canucks wait until last minute before shipping... Although I haven't mail-ordered since '99... Maybe it's changed since then.

So yeah, if Ottawa folks need a ride, let me know

Alan

Assuming my tickets come through from MarcO, I can give 2 people round-trip rides from Ottawa.

Email alan DOT dodson AT rogers DOT com if interested

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I'll definitely be there. Been there pretty much all week, and I'd never miss a Hawksley show. So it all fits. Yes.

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this is the best thread ever,,,

more!!!

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I hope people aren't too rude and disrespectful of the venue / staff. 3 of my very close friends work at the Capitol and it'd be a shame to piss good people off who are just doing their job because you can't smoke drugs indoors...

Although I might need massive amounts of something to get through a SCI show without poking my eyes out ::

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Its also interesting this comes out right after the iraqi prisoner abuse. Good way to deflect some media attention away from that and puts america back into were a victom category. please. there have been 10,000 iraqi civilian casualties and you don't hear shit about that.

another interpretation is that american is now a victim of america... did you not read that this beheading was in retaliation for the abuse of prisoners and occupation of iraq? in that light, it's putting the civilian casualties very much on the front page, above the fold. this kind of action by the beheaders will only further the american public's attention to this, and maybe people will start saying 'let's get the hell outta there' (john mccain i'm looking in your direction)

although they shouldn't leave just yet... install the iraqi government, make sure things are working, then get the hell out. and stop killing people. and stop abusing people. and stop being so rightious (sp).

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i thought it was aaron stein at the clifford ball...

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