The Mix: Kamloops vol 1: issue 3

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Sinksincider plays at a recent punk show.

KAMLOOPS
 SEPT. 29, 2016 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3

WHERE WE’VE BEEN

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Aaron Buttowski at the Tragically Hip Benefit Concert.

There were plenty of fantastic performers at the recent Tragically Hip benefit concert, including Nicole Clay.

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Morrigan splatters with her bestie at 4Cats Studio.

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The Take Back The Night March was well attended.

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Here it is, issue number three.

This one is special to me on a few fronts, and I thank you for picking it up and browsing its pages.

First off, there may be some language in this issue. But let’s be honest, there may be some language in all our issues. I could try and cut around it, try to water it down, but I feel that by the time we’ve hit grade school we’ve heard language that would make sailors blush.

Consider this your warning.

I had the ridiculously fun job of chatting with a bunch

of people from the punk scene here in Kamloops.

What was going to be a short little “punk rock rules” piece turned into a bigger look at the people that create the community. And, as a girl who dresses like a hippie but thinks Shane McGowan is a musical genius, I am thrilled to share it with you.

We talked with a budding artist, found out about the business of brewing a better beer, and took a reflective look at Gordon Downie’s latest gift to Canadians. There were tears,

beers, and much, much laughter.

Next issue we’re going to chat with a dj company who is bringing beauty into recycling, we’re talking with a local writer about a magical world with mermaids, checking out the Padlock Studio collective, and we’ll be spending some time looking into the spookier side of things.

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COMMUNITY

The science (and art) of making beer

BY TODD SULLIVAN It is a great time to be a beer drinker.

Maybe one of the best periods ever.

The last several years have seen a massive explosion in the number of small breweries making all kinds of interesting, complex, sometimes even weird beers, all for the connoisseurs to enjoy. Take a walk through your nearest liquor store and you’ll see dozens of IPAs, fruit-infused beers, chocolate porters, and even pumpkin spice ales (yes, there really is no escape the pumpkin spice onslaught).

And the best part is that they’re all delicious.

But if you want to enjoy a delicious, small-batch beer from a micro-brewery, you don’t have pick up a six-pack of something that was produced in Vancouver or Victoria.

We have a couple of excellent locations right here in Kamloops where you can wet

your whistle and enjoy a pint or two with friends.

Red Collar Brewing is a fairly recent addition to the city,

and to the world of beermaking, but brewer David Beardsell brings more than 25 years of experience to the table. And maybe most interestingly, the whole thing is a family affair.

“My dad David is the brewer,” explains Lara Beardsell, “my mom, Annamarie, she does all of the bookkeeping and all of the back of house stuff, and then I run, with another guy who we have on staff, I help to run the front of house as well as doing sales in Vancouver.”

David trained at Doemens in Munich, Germany, which might seem like a ways to go for training, but in the 1980s there weren’t as many options as there are now.

“Back in the early 90s, brewing and craft brewing and micro brewing was not really something that happened very much,” says Lara. “You still had the big five, you know, Molson and Labatt’s, all of the big breweries that controlled most of the market share, so there wasn’t a lot of people who were going out looking to get properly

trained as brewers.”

With those decades of experience, David has had an involvement with a number of breweries throughout BC and Alberta, including Bear Brewing and Okanagan Springs.

And that experience has helped to make Red Collar Brewing what it is.

Lara explains: “The bottom line is, having a brewer that has been in the industry for so long, that is traditionally trained, we have pretty consistent product and pretty consistently well-made product.

Our consumers can definitely look to us to be putting out the same thing all the time, and if we come up with something new, they’re pretty confident that it’s going to be good.

“It’s an art and a science and there’s a lot of things that can go wrong in the brewing process, so having my dad who has 25 years of experience, 25 plus years of experience at this point, it just ensures that what we’re putting out, we can always stand

behind it.”

At the other end of the spectrum is Trevor Zechel, the brewer at the Noble Pig who has only been on the job for five months after completing a two year diploma at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Langley. Having been a paramedic for more than 20 years, Trevor had been looking for something new when he started down the beermaking path.

“Once I started doing the program,” he says, “the world of brewing is awesome, there’s so many styles you can play with, new things you can create. I’m very happy I made the switch and started a new career.

The Noble Pig’s current seasonal — a gose, which is a German sour wheat ale with coriander and sea salt — is Trevor’s first official beer, crafted from his own recipe.

“It turned out quite lovely,” he says. “I’m pretty happy with that first creation.”

But if there’s one thing that both of these brewers agree on, it’s that making beer is both an art and a science.

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“That is something that’s we even talked about in the brewing program,” Trevor says. “It’s a marriage of science and art. The science is always there for the brewing, you need that to make a proper beer, but the art comes in developing a new style or taking an old style and tweaking it and making it your own.

“There’s thousands of substyles of beer and that’s the fun of brewing. You can do what you want as long as the beer tastes good in the end.”

When asked to describe the art of beermaking, Lara describes it like this: “There’s a feel to it. It’s like when you cook, sure you

can follow a recipe, and when it turns out, it’ll probably be delicious, it’ll probably be great.

But the more you cook, the more you get a feel for something extra that you might want to put in.

“Part of craft brewing is that you’re making small batches of things and so tweaking recipes all the time.

Budweiser never tweaks recipes, they make the same thing all the time, whereas we’re constantly looking for an improvement.”

Trevor has that same idea to push towards improvement and innovation. When asked what he’s most looking forward to in the years to come, he says, “Just trying to play with

that artistic side, honestly. There are a lot of base styles out there. What can I do to make something unique, something different?

To make a notable beer is my goal.

Something unique, and that is difficult because there’s a lot of unique beers out there.”

And he’s right, there are a lot of unique beers out there, and thanks to brewers like David Beardsell and Trevor Zechel, there will be many more fantastic beers to come.

It’s a great time to be a beer drinker, and as a beer drinker myself, one of the highlights of living in Kamloops is having access to these kind of fantastic brews.

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VISUAL ARTS

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Aries: If you are involved in any financial or legal matters in your personal life, you should find that they go especially well this week. You will be especially level headed and find little attraction in taking unnecessary risks. Everything of a legal or financial nature that you tackle will be approached with forethought and planning. Your caution will be seen to pay off very quickly, as you find that you save yourself considerable expense. Help could be offered unexpectedly, from a very reliable source. If so, take it! Spend time with your lover; they will be very affectionate this week.

Leo: You at last you should start to realize that you need to get on with your life and not spend your entire time in the past. Things that have been and gone, and are no longer in your control, although, still significant, should now stop preventing you looking to the future. You could have the tendency, to use other people. You may not consider whether these people mind being used, or indeed, whether they will suffer a personal lose as a result. In your efforts to put the past behind you, you could develop a “devil-may-care” attitude. You may be very impulsive in your search for adventure and danger.

Taurus: Nothing that you have got planned will go quite as expected. Although recently, things should have been going quite smoothly, you will quickly notice a change. You could start to question your own plans and actions as your levels of selfconfidence start to diminish. You may even start to long for a freedom from your responsibilities, wishing that you were back in your childhood with little to worry you.

This certainly will not be a good time to make any major decisions. You also need to keep a careful eye on your finances as you may spend more than you can afford as a way to comfort yourself.

On the Wright track If you’ve strolled the Back Alley Art Gallery in Kamloops, you’ve seen, and likely marvelled at, a few of local artist Kelly Wright’s creations. His murals grace the walls of the old Castles and Cottages building, Central Station Pub, and Red Collar. And they are stunning.

Vibrant and full of life, Kelly’s murals tell stories through artistic skill, technique, and a vivid creative imagination. It’s hard to believe he’s not only not had any formal training, but at 28 he’s only just begun his artistic career. One that, if not for a broken ankle from a three story fall, might not have started at all.

“I stopped for a long time,” Kelly says about his art. “From just out of high school until I was 22, I stopped, then I broke my ankle and it just put me in that place. Six months later I had my first mural job.”

His first mural in town was in the garage of a private residence on the North Shore. “It was my first job painting and getting paid for it,” says Kelly.

Shortly afterwards Kelly showed tattoo artist Cye, from Sacred Skin, a number of his works. “He was like “Holy shit, you’ve got it.

People either have it or they don’t, and you have it.”,” says Kelly. It was through Cye that Kelly got his first city mural commission in 2012.

“When they called I was actually putting together a resume for a construction job and right after that it just opened up.”

It’s not just murals that keeps this artist going. He also has some pieces hanging at Pizza Pi, is working on a future mixed media show at Padlock studios, and will be one of the highlighted artists in the coming UNeek Gallery. He’s also headfirst in the music scene, having just recently opened up for SNFU with his band Sinksincider.

A two-time contestant in the local Art Battle national competition, Kelly was a close call to a win using nothing but random tools snagged from strangers.

“The first Art Battle,” he says, “Mike [O’Brien of 4 Cats] had me on TV and was like, ‘This is the way it’s going to be.’ All the brushes should be in front of me, and I got there for the first round and it was, ‘Alright artists, ten seconds, grab your brushes.’ And I looked down and there were no brushes there. I went to the bar and asked for a knife and he gives me a lime-cutter. I started my painting with a lime cutter. People came around and dropped off brushes, makeup brushes and whatever else.

Combs, there was a comb in there.

It was so fun. I’ll probably take it more seriously next time.”

Kelly will also be airbrushing willing bodies at the coming Art in the Dark fundraiser on October 15.

It’s safe to say he’s on the forefront of the creative crowd here in Kamloops, and with his own brand of style, he’s bound to continue to make waves.

“The goal,”he says, “is to inspire people to do it. Just something new. I’d love to go travel the world and paint some places up, but just creating a culture here would be something unique. Kamloops has the potential for it. It just needs that little something to push it.”

The creative culture is certainly growing, with Kelly right in the thick of it. And he wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I can’t live with myself without art,” says Kelly. “I’m a carpenter by trade. Taught from my deceased father. Who I love deeply. And what he taught me propelled me to accomplish my dreams. I want to connect with the world with my art. It’s just paint on a wall. But the impact could be just what the world needs.”

You can check out more of Kelly’s works, or talk to him about commissioned pieces, on his website at www.kellywright.ca.

Cancer: A chance meeting could be the start of a very physical and exhausting love affair. It is unlikely to be long lived, but you may find that this is to your benefit.

Although you will greatly enjoy your time together, you could find that you struggle to keep up with your partner who could appear to have an unending supply of energy.

Perhaps it will be for the best that this affair is destined to last only a few short hours.

Any longer and you would run the risk of burning yourself out.

Virgo: If you are in a relationship, you are likely to find that you are happy to do anything for your partner. As luck would have it, the chances are that your partner is also prepared to do anything for you. This should be the ingredients for a marvelous time and if you can, you will find the most satisfaction from spending the days only with your partner and not seeing anyone else. There is much love to share between you and distractions are not likely to be welcomed. It will be easier to talk in an open and honest way producing a sense of closeness not previously found.

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Gemini: You are unlikely to have a great deal of interest in your own needs this week, preferring instead to dedicate as much time as you possibly can to helping other people. You may find that you offer some time to charity, alternatively, you could make a cash donation. If you choose to keep closer to home, you could offer help to a friend or relative. This is not necessarily going to be strictly kept on an emotional level. It is likely that you will offer help of a more practical kind. Perhaps you may find yourself repairing a friend’s car or helping to redecorate a relative’s living room.

Libra: This looks as if it could be a time that you will want to put aside and dedicate entirely to having fun. You will be invited to a large gathering of your friends and you will be especially keen to go to parties, since all around you are likely to be in equally as good a mood. If you are in a relationship at the moment, especially if it is new and you are still getting to know each other, you could find that things now start to proceed to a new and more permanent level. If you have been considering proposing to your partner, you are unlikely to find a better time than now!

Scorpio: If you wake up one morning this week with a dream still fresh in your mind, grab a pen and paper and write it down. There may be a message hidden in it that if you can decipher, will prove invaluable. You will find that you are influenced by someone with a religious background. Perhaps you will come into contact with a priest or religious figure that makes an original suggestion to you. This would also be a good time to offer help, particularly of a physical kind to a charity. You will be surprised by the end of the week, how much satisfaction this gives you.

Sagittarius: Don’t try to make any major changes to your life this week. These decisions will be far better left to another time. If you are artistic, particularly if you are involved in music, you will have an exceptionally lucky week. A project that you have been working on or considering is finally likely to get the financial backing that you could only dream about. Wednesday evening looks likely to be an especially happy time when you will want to surround yourself with as many friends and family as you possibly can. Romance also could be in the air.

Capricorn: Good news should come your way this week, and you could start your week with a bright and optimistic outlook. There are likely to be many unexpected and perhaps unusual opportunities that will come your way when you are least prepared.

This certainly will not be a tedious week! If the chance arrives for you to travel to a strange and exciting place, you would do well to accept the opportunity. Even if this involves a lot of upheaval in your domestic and working life, the rewards should be huge.

Aquarius: This week is going to be good for those of you with an interest in sport.

You are unlikely to be happy to simply sit on the side lines; you will feel the need and the ability to participate. If this is not usually your cup of tea, perhaps this will be the time you take a look at your general level of fitness and do something about it. If you decide to lose weight or to get fitter, action taken should prove invaluable in the future and success in these areas is more than likely. Avoid waffle and get straight to the point in your dealings with other people.

Pisces: Good news should arrive at the start of this week! This unexpected and possibly unusual news will bring an opportunity that you would be very well advised to take advantage of. If you do, you could easily find that your cash flow will improve.

Cash will at last start to flow in the right direction! Into your bank account instead of out of it! You will find that you have plenty of time on your hands, virtually everything that you have planned for, will go far more smoothly and quickly than expected.

The Tragically Hip: Building a legacy

BY TRINA BUDAI In the summer of 1991 I hopped a Greyhound from up North all the way to Victoria where I saw The Tragically Hip for the first time. They were promoting the release of their second full length album, Road Apples. They played a little pub on a stage marked off by masking tape to a small crowd of appreciative onlookers still munching on wings and beer. The pub filled to capacity by the time they played ‘Little Bones’ and when they ended their set with ‘Fiddler’s Green’ we picked our way through a crowd that extended a full city block to the Inner Harbor. I never wanted that night to end and knew I was a fan for life.

Like all great moments in life, that night came to an inevitable end, as did the last tour of the Tragically Hip, which all of Canada was invited to share. Their music has always brought people together in a very real, timeless connection. Their farewell tour served the same purpose and with an entire nation listening, a legacy was born.

“Well, you know, Prime Minister Trudeau’s got me, his work with First Nations. He’s got everybody. He’s going to take us

where we need to go,” Downie said from the stage of that final show.

“It’s going to take us 100 years to figure out what the hell went on up there,” he continued, “but it isn’t cool and everybody knows that. He cares about the people way up north, that we were trained our entire lives to ignore, trained our entire lives to hear not a word of what’s going on up there. And what’s going on up there ain’t good.”

Tragically Hip

lead singer Gord Downie is helping to bring national attention to one of the most haunting legacies of the residential school system: the children who never made it home. His medium?

The release of a multimedia project titled Secret Path, devoted to the story of Chanie (Charlie) Wenjack, premiering on October 23, 2016.

Downie is one of the most high profile voices speaking to the cause of reconciliation.

Wenjack, the 12-year-old

Anishinabe boy, died of hunger and exposure after he escaped from a residential school in Kenora, Ontario and tried to find his way home.

Secret Path includes an album with 10 new songs based on poems written by Downie.

There’s also a graphic novel by award-winning author Jeff Lemire, based on Downie’s telling of Wenjack’s story. All proceeds from the project will be donated to the National Centre for Truth and

Reconciliation.

Thanks to his courage, Downie is helping to change the stigma around these issues and restoring dignity and closure so that healing can begin.

I grew up along the northern corridor of frozen asphalt known as the Highway of Tears and my biological father was a residential school survivor. For the most part, nobody talks about it, but there is a story like Wenjack’s in many First Nations families. To find out

more about Chanie Wenjack’s story, go to Jody Porter’s online documentary Dying for an Education.

Now, 25 years later, I picked my way through a crowd that extended a full city block to the Thompson River at the end of the final performance of The Tragically Hip broadcasted at Riverside Park with the knowledge that this is not really the end at all. The music and magick of this legendary Canadian band will live on forever with the outstanding gestures of positive change that Downie has had the foresight to implement.

About 10 minutes before the Hip were supposed to come out on stage, the back half of K-Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario suddenly burst into “O Canada.”

Within seconds, most of the room was on its feet, 6,000 people singing the national anthem together. That is his gift and it is what I will miss the most about Downie’s performances. He brought us together as a nation and used his time to focus on lasting positive change and awareness to causes that affect me to the core.

Well played, Mr. Downie. You said it well with, “You’re going to miss me.

Wait and you’ll see.

Fully, completely.”

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Was there anything more jarring in the pop culture landscape this week than the announcement that Angelina Jolie was filing for divorce from Brad Pitt? I mean, they were the epitome of the Hollywood powercouple. Many had come before them, but they really were the perfect example, two of the most attractive people in the world joined together in some kind of super-union that reminds the rest of us that we’re all just humble little gnats in the grand scheme of things.

Though rumours promptly started flying that there was an infidelity at the center of this, word from Jolie’s camp is claiming that the split is related only to issues with Pitt’s parenting style, which may be connected to substance abuse problems on

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Pitt’s part. There were further stories about an apparently drunken Pitt on the family aircraft, but let’s not wallow in those sorts of salacious details more than we need to.

I’m actually surprised to see that this story hasn’t dominated the headlines more than it has. The public has traditionally enjoyed

the spectacular endings of Hollywood marriages, partly, I think, because it makes them feel better about their own failings – I may not be rich and famous, but at least I can keep my marriage together, unlike those two losers.

Maybe it’s the unnatural amount of political discussion going on right now. I don’t want to touch on that topic too much here, because we’re on the verge of the first debate, and I’m sure that’ll give me plenty to respond to.

Speaking of debates, as I write this word has come down from the debate commission (or whatever its official title is) that that the debate moderators will not be fact-checking the candidates statements.

Which is just … it makes my head spin.

If a candidate makes a false statement during the debate, and the moderator knows that it is false, he is not able to correct the candidate or call them out. No wonder the American electorate seems to be getting stupider.

But it’s another night before debates will come streaming at us.

And in the time until then, there are plenty of ways to entertain yourself, like watching former child-star Corey Feldman on the Today show, where he appeared last week to perform a song from his latest album Angelic 2 The Core.

This performance was equal parts terrible and bizarre, and as things of this nature do, it became the hottest

thing on the Internet for a few days. Feldman responded to the critics on Facebook Live, complaining that the criticisms were some of the meanest things anyone had ever said to him. Which seems hard to fathom given the quality of the some of the films he’s done, but maybe he’s traditionally avoided reading his reviews. I know I probably would have.

And in a far more disturbing blast from the past, Jonbenet Ramsey was in the news again following two special programs that aired on CBS — an interview with Burke Ramsey, Jonbenet’s brother, conducted

by Dr. Phil, and a two part investigation into the Jonbenet Ramsey murder that found that the abundance of evidence pointed to … Burke Ramsey, Jonbenet’s brother, as

the killer.

Council for Burke Ramsey has since claimed that he’ll be filing a suit against CBS for the claims made in the special, and I can’t say I can entirely blame him, even if the evidence is compelling and convincing.

Two of the names involved with the show are fairly notable in the field of justice -- Jim Clemente is a former FBI profiler and Laura Richards is criminal behavioral analyst and former New Scotland Yard — but even with that pedigree, it seems bordering on shameful to splash these sort of allegations all over television without a thought for the person at the center of the allegation.

It’d be one thing if this was a legit police investigation, but this is hardly that.

While I didn’t get

wrapped up in at the time, I can remember the sensation of the JonBenet Ramsey case, and how it captured and held the attention of the American (and Canadian) public that was hungry for the next big crime story following the OJ Simpson trial, and this case provided it.

And of course the real tragedy of the case is that no one was ever charged for the crime, no one ever convicted, and there will be no justice for the girl who died far too young.

And now I’m depressed so let’s bring this to a close. If you want to tell me what’s bugging you in the world of pop culture, you can email me at guru@themixkamloops. com. And if you want to hear ramblings of a similar nature, you can follow me twitter.com/ lewzr

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BY JULI HARLAND The sky was dark and there was a chill in the wind as we gathered together in the courtyard behind the hospital building at the site of the old sanitorium at Tranquille Farm Fresh. A man who claimed to be in

charge addressed the crowd of supposed experts in the field of mental health to talk about a special case. A young woman whose steady decline into madness took us all through a journey where, by the end, there were more questions than answers.

Writer and producer Andrew Cooper of Chimera Theatre has created a tale taken right from the history of the hospital itself. From a time when psychiatric medicine was experimental and the mind was even more mysterious than it still is today, the story of

a young woman and her journey leaves you to wonder how much of her condition was caused by the very treatment that was supposed to save her.

The entire cast delves into their roles, and captures your intrigue from the moments you meet them. From the one upmanship banter between the two men in charge to the frustration of the staff who work tirelessly to do all they can in their small amounts of power to save a young woman from herself.

It is the young woman, our patient, who stands out in this stellar interactive experience. You feel her sanity slipping. You see how she fights for her own thoughts and experience. And you are angry with her, and for her, through her journey.

It’s a hell of a tale.

Add to that the history and the general mood of the buildings, themselves, and you

are transported to another era. And let me tell you, it’s scary as hell. But not because of ghosts and goblins, but because of the questions the experience brings up. Because of the indirect torture of so many people involved. And because, at the end of the day, the story is true. And that, my friends, is the most frightening thing of all.

A job well done by Chimera Theatre and

by Tranquille Farm Fresh. The show is running until October 30 and shows sell out fast. Don’t let this year be another year where you mean

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Small notes: bring a flashlight if you are not good with unsteady ground.

Dress warm and wear shoes that you can tromp through the grass and gravel in.

The walking is easy and at a gentle pace.

Young kids are not going to understand what’s going on, best to leave them with a sitter. Older teenagers may enjoy the creepy aspect of it,as well as the story. The rest of you grown ups — what are you waiting for?

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Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 4:00 pm except holidays #103-340 Victoria St.

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The first one was such a hit, we brought it back Don't miss out on the 2nd annual Art in the Dark!

This engaging 19+ evening of interactive arts activities and performances will not disappoint.... black light, bodypainting, live music and dance performances and much more!

Ticket price gets you a full night of activities + performances... bring cash for cocktails, wine, beer, food + silent auction.

Tickets $40 ($30 KAC members) at kamloopsarts.ca All proceeds support the KAC's community arts programming.

Art in the Dark 2016 is generously sponsored by: Lansdowne Village | TRUSU | Jordan Rinke | Urban Systems | Ra Hair Studio | Art Battle

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LITERATURE

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Secret Submissions

BY TRINA BUDAI Grasping at walls I tear away my sanity As flesh from wearied bones Spattering my soul in crimson droplets It sprays the darkest shadowed corners Lining every inch of this cage as it closes in.

Climbing the walls offers no escape Lock it deep inside so it will manifest This urgent desire to bleed the pain away Pierce the flesh with sharp honed blade I watch the black pool spread‌ Again I am bloodletting in ink One day I pressed my worded flesh Against the sharpened edge of my Athame Unknowing, not paying much attention It gave way like an over ripened peach On the blade of a well serrated clichÊ.

Stapled closed sentences smeared with iodine Slice through subcutaneous grammatical structure As my loosely sutured syllables are splayed open.

My words are cutting themselves again.

Photo by Cherise Speer

This week’s Tone Soup feature flavor is hip-hop and rap with a dub and trap base.

The appetizer is M.I.A.’s new album A.I.M. It’s M.I.A.’s fifth offering of jungle and trap beats with at least a couple of songs having mildly thought-provoking, politically-charged lyrics. To be honest, though, the most fun song is really just a bunch of bird puns strung together.

But I guess, as any refugee would tell you, you can’t win ‘em all. Not a bad album overall but I still think her first two were her best.

Next on the menu, we have some gourmet, thirdworld, middle-finger food. Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid is the latest from Die Antwoord.

This insane mix of rhymes is fueled by ego, angst, money and penises. While the beats aren’t as driving and aggressive here as they have been in the past, this album is more of a grabbag of bizarreness.

‘Alien’ is subdued and sounds a little like a lullaby from a music box, reminiscent of ‘Dagga Puff.’ ‘Wings on My Penis’ is a quaint ditty about a little boy’s prayer to God. But the leftfield gem here is a song called ‘Rats Rule’ featuring Jack Black sounding like a gangster straight outta Broadway,

TONE SOUP

Enjoying some darker musical flavours

By Jamie Horsley tonesoup@ themixkamloops.com

circa 1960. Best laugh (spoiler alert): a track called ‘Jonah Hill’ that gets cut off because it “sounds gay.”

The real treat in this flight of hiphop flavors is a local dish. We Are the Halluci Nation

by A Tribe Called Red is probably the most important drum and bass album of the year.

Not because of its groundbreaking style — though there’s really no one else doing what they are — but because their message is as important now as it ever was, and arguably more so. Combining traditional Pow Wow drums and vocals with modern drum and bass and hip hop sounds, they address real issues affecting aboriginal people in our country and across the continent.

The album opens with John Trudell, Native American activist, poet,

musician and longtime inspiration to ATCR, declaring and defining the Halluci Nation. ‘Sila’ is a fascinating song featuring Tanya Tagaq, an Inuk throat singer from Nunavut.

The important story in this album, though, is told across two spoken word tracks featuring Canadian author, Joseph Boyden, talking about Chanie (Charlie) Wenjack, a young Ojibway boy who was found dead after escaping a residential school in 1966 (note the 50 th anniversary of this tragedy).

This particular story will be getting a spotlight from Gord Downie (The Tragically Hip) soon. He’s had this in the works for a really long time. An album, a graphic novel, and an animated feature all under the title Secret Path will be released in October.

In the meantime google the story of Charlie Wenjack while you listen to We Are The Halluci Nation.

For desert we have a rich, dark offering to you and our Dark Lord, courtesy of Ghost.

Ghost are a black metal band by definition, but they sound like a black metal band that would have existed long before it was even defined as a genre. I get quite a Black Sabbath feel

from pretty much everything I’ve heard from them.

Maybe a little like Blue Oyster Cult.

Except those guys had to deny all accusations of Satanic lyrics to the face of the press; Ghost revel in it.

In fact if you know anything about them, you know that they are basically Satanism, Roman Catholic style.

The lead singer, Papa Emeritus (II, III) is always seen in skull face paint and a Satanic Pope outfit. That’s right, three albums, three lead singers.

The bassist on the current Popestar tour is the first female to be spotted in the revolving roster of masked Nameless Ghouls that make up the band. The rumors are flying as to who it could be and it’s anyone’s guess if she played bass on the new Popestar EP. The EP dropped the same day the

tour began. There’s one new single from them called ‘Square Hammer’ (streamable online).

But the other four songs on the album are covers. Covers of new wave songs from the 80s! These are awesome!

You know what I hate? A cover of a song that sounds exactly like the original. Seriously.

What’s the point?

They’ve taken these songs and done them in a completely opposing

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style and they make it work. Remember Missionary Man by Eurythmics? You sure don’t remember it like this.

Popestar is available as an EP or as the second disc of the deluxe re-release of last year’s incredible Meliora album. Or, as I discovered, free with the purchase of a ticket to any stop on the tour. They’ll be at Vogue theatre in Vancouver on October 13 th . See you there.

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The many faces of the Kamloops punk scene

BY JULI HARLAND Photos by Sam Foraie, Adrian Harland “Mom, you should talk about the punk scene in Kamloops, it’s bigger than you think.”

It was an off the cuff idea from my son, Adrian Harland, who knows I have a pretty big soft spot for celtic punk and heavy guitars.

Not a bad idea, I thought.

Who knew that it would spark such an outpouring of information and enthusiasm about the music and the scene.

I had the awesome privilege of chatting with six musicians who are active in the world of local punk rock music — Darrell Sharp; Matt Bailey; Chris Whitham; Matt Cardinal; Kelly Wright; and Harrison Dempsey — over three days about what the punk scene means to them.

And let me be the first to tell you, some of it might surprise you. And some of it, well some of it might just blow your hair straight back.

“When you go down the rabbit hole, you’re placing yourself in a position of risk because everything is mysterious after that,” says Sharp. “You’re going outside of the regulations or the rules, or the order.

So whether you call it a hippie, or a metalhead, or a punk, or a freak, or whatever they used to call it back in the fifties, a rocker, whatever, something that’s subcultural, it’s usually only a handful of people in a small town, or even a handful of people in a larger city, who are going to take that risk.”

Punk rock, although gaining more mainstream popularity — along with punk’s cohort heavy metal — has been long labelled as something that brings destruction, anarchy, and general wariness. It’s that music that ‘those darn kids’ listen to. It’s a phase.

But actually, punk rock, and the culture that surrounds it, is so much more.

“To me,” says Dempsey, “in punk you be yourself.

If you want to wear tie-dye Beatles shirts and do your thing, to me, that’s punk. It’s just being what you want and dressing how you want, and even listening to what you want.”

“It’s kind of my way of reflecting how I feel about most things,” says Sharp.

“A fuck you, in a lot of

Photos by Samantha Foraie of 4A Photography

ways. So in a literal sense, that’s what it has on the external side. I don’t want to look like you. I don’t want to listen to your crap.

I don’t wanna buy into your bullshit. I want to second guess everything you tell me is true. That’s what the lifestyle entails to me.

“And whatever stage of life you’re at you can interpret that in so many levels. How you eat, or what you buy, or how you spend your money, or even if you spend money or not. It’s just about doing something that’s outside the order.

Some people require more than what’s put in front of them.”

It’s claiming your own space in this fragile world, and living on your own terms. And seriously, the music kicks ass.

“The thing is,” says Whitham, “that when you like metal, or you like punk, you think you’re an outsider. As soon as you meet someone who is into the same thing as you are it doesn’t matter if you’re catholic or protestant or muslim or if you’re vegan, or whatever. But it’s something that you can look at someone and go ‘I’m

fucking stoked that you like this.’ It crosses boundaries.

No other type of music does that.”

And it’s the heavy riffs, the driving beats, the cutthroat lyrics, that gets some people on edge. It’s not PC. It’s out of the box.

And there are those who get very uncomfortable outside the box.

“From an outsider’s perspective,” says Sharp, “and when I say outsider it’s outside of the punk community or any kind of subcultural community, it’s like people tend to believe in some sort of order or have some sort of fundamental belief, whether it’s a fate or something like that. So when you’re looking at a bunch of kids or a bunch of older kids, myself included, and they look like they don’t fit in with that order, automatically it becomes undesirable.”

“It’s abrasive, is what it is,” says Wright. “That upsets people.”

Enough so, that the scene struggles with finding venues for anything outside of the occasional bar show.

“If they would give us a chance,” says Bailey, “and try to understand the music

...”

“That’s another thing about punk,” says Sharp.

“You’ll find the DIY aspect is the hugest part of it. Do it yourself. Sometimes you’ll get a generator, and you’ll go out in the middle of wherever, and you’ll pick a location at the last minute tell everyone where it is, and everyone will go out there. Four bands, a guerrilla show.

“You don’t really get country bands doing that sort of shit. Or the Symphony Orchestra. And part of the reason why people have to do that sort of thing, or find venues, and they don’t last long, is because the city keeps shutting it down.

“They don’t like loud guitars. They don’t like punk kids. They don’t like the image of it. They don’t like it.”

“It doesn’t matter what the noise level is,” says Whitham. “If you’re in the acceptable limits as soon as someone complains it doesn’t matter. It’s out the window. Bylaw is knocking on your door.

“We had issues with that.

Our band would practice 7:00 on a Thursday night

and not have a problem. But we’d get called regularly at 1:00 in the afternoon on a Sunday.”

And still the music plays on.

“It’s going to happen regardless,” says Bailey “If people shut it down people are going to move to houses, they’re going to throw their shows. It’s not going to stop.

It’s never going to stop.

People are going to do what they want to do.”

And what they want to do is simply to play music. Inspire others. Ask questions. And support each other through their common bond.

They come from all backgrounds. They live in all parts of society. They all live the life they want to be living, and they all really dig some sick tunes.

“I’m all over the music scene here in Kamloops,” says Cardinal. “I’m in an old time band, Lost in the Woods, I play fiddle there. I’m in an orchestra with my grandparents, the Brandenburgh Orchestra, so I play violin and viola in that, and then, of course, our Celtic punk band, Sinksincider is so much fun.”

“That’s one thing we want to say,” adds Whitham. “We’re not degenerates. Matt’s a roofer, he’s got a house, he’s got a wife, kids, all that kind of stuff. I own a house, I’m a dual ticket electrician.”

Wright is a construction worker by trade, and is also a rising star in the visual arts scene. Bailey is also in the trades. They are your neighbors, your family, and if you’re lucky, your friends.

These friendships are part of what keeps these guys together, doing what they do.

“A band is a relationship without sex,” says Whitham.

“It’s hot and sweaty, and you fight, and you bitch and you argue with each other. But you love the guys, and you do your thing and hopefully it works out on stage. And when you play, hopefully it’s a good time.”

The camaraderie is something that came up time and again through the conversations with the musicians. And not just with bandmates and friends, but with other musicians, concert goers, and the community at large.

“You go to a punk show or a metal show and someone you don’t even know is picking you up off the floor because you fell on your ass,” says Bailey.

“People think it’s aggressive, and it is,” says Whitham. “You know, maybe you’ve had a shitty day. You got underpaid for your job. But if you slip, you fall, three hands from different people are picking you up because they don’t want you to get hurt. You’re violent, you’re mashing people, but someone takes care of you.”

They tell tales of opening one another’s homes to travelling musicians, hosting shows in their homes and yards just to be able to provide all ages spaces to share the music with those youth who are looking to connect.

“We gotta inspire these kids. Get that rebel spirit going,” says Cardinal.

“What about all the kids who don’t fit in? Who never do like hockey,” says

Bailey. “Where’s their outlet? And why isn’t this supported? Or maybe their parents don’t have money.

You couldn’t play hockey because your parents couldn’t buy stuff. Rather than sit sad in your room for hours and hours, this is something you can do yourself.

“You didn’t need a team. And you get social. You meet someone, and you start to play music. I was really shy as a kid.

We need an outlet for youth who aren’t into sports, who are into music.”

“I was in grade 10,” says Whitman, “and I came into class with a Guitar World magazine.

And I’m sitting there, reading it, and a guy comes over and goes, ‘You play guitar?’ Yeah, I play bass. Boom, we’ve been best friends ever since. Twenty years. And that’s all it took. It wasn’t sports, it wasn’t anything. It was music. Right on. Let’s talk about it. Let’s do it.

I played in two bands with him since then, and he’s a solid guy.

That’s all it takes.”

Music is a powerful connector. It can build bridges. Carry messages. Spark political debates. It can create communities.

“Music is magic and power. It can make you feel good, it can make you feel sad. It can make you forget everything that is a problem in your life.

And for twenty five minutes or forty five minutes nothing else matters,” Whitham says.

And the punk community is larger than you think. And more supportive than many would believe.

It’s not a dress code. It’s not how many tattoos you may or may not have. It’s an attitude.

It’s the music. It’s living your life the way you want to. It’s throwing shows in the woods to be able to keep the music alive. It’s starting an entertainment newspaper in a new town.

My challenge to you, the reader. Get out and see more live music. Of all kinds. Step outside your box. Look past your comfort zone.

Take a trip down the rabbit hole.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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NIGHTLIFE:

September 28 - September 29: Brewloops Brew University @ Noble Pig Brewhouse, Tour the inner workings of The Noble Pig Brewhouse, learn about mash, wort, hops, yeast and of course, taste some great examples of the final product! 6:00pm and 8:00pm September 30: Brewloops Block Party @ Red Beard Café. The Block Party is the place to taste dozens of beers from all participating breweries. Plus check out Food Trucks, donuts, ciders, live music and more!

September 30; 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm at On The Rocks Pub: Kris LaBelle September 30: 7:00 pm Chances Barside Lounge & GrillJana Seale, Friday , 2016 September 30 to Saturday October 1: 8:00 pm each night at The Blue Grotto: The Goods Band $5 Cover September 30: 9:00 pm The Dirty Jersey.

Oh F**k Yeah Bud B Rich (Out For A Rip) w/ Dinky September 30 to October 1: at MATCH Eatery & Public House: Dave Coalmine Band September 30, October 14 at 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm at Barnacle Records: Chromesthesia / Meloporia. Join P.A.T. the Portable Art Trailer at Barnacle Records on select Fridays to listen to records and make prints, drawings and zines. All materials are provided and

Photo by Bob Clark

Bobs and Lolo play for the kids at the Children’s Arts Festival.

no experience is necessary. On select Fridays, the KAG joins Barnacle Records to offer a night of handson art and music making. KAG art instructors will bring P.A.T., our Portable Art Trailer, and Barnacle Records will provide turntables and mixers for amateur and pro DJs to experiment.

Meld your senses and try your hand at DJing, printmaking and drawing.

No experience is necessary; all materials are provided.

History is alive!

Come and get medieval The Shire of Ramsgaard welcomes you to get involved in medieval study, craft, and full contact armored ghting. Weekly practices, seasonal tournaments, and fantastic friendships await you. facebook.com/groups/shireoframsgaard

DJs, please bring your own music.

October 1, 9:00 pm – 1:00 am: Country Hoe Down at Pogue Mahone Irish Alehouse $10 October 1, 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm: Pauline Kyllonen at Chances Barside Lounge & Grill October 6, 8:00 pm - 1:00 am at Sagebrush Theatre: 19 + show PAUL FILEK. Tickets are $10 in advance and available at The Blue Grotto, Long and McQuade October 12 Join us at Zack’s Coffee on the last Monday of the month, Denny’s on the last Tuesday of the month and at Red Collar Brewing Co. on the second Wednesday of the month to contribute to largescale collaborative drawings, play surrealist drawing games and enjoy some of Kamloops’ best local coffee, pancakes and beer.

No experience is necessary. All supplies are provided. Minors are welcome at Red Collar with an accompanying parent or guardian.

October 15: Art in the Dark. The first one was such a hit, we brought it back ~ don’t miss out

on the 2nd annual Art in the Dark!

This engaging 19+ evening of interactive arts activities and performances will not disappoint.... black light, bodypainting, live music and dance performances and much more! For more information visit kamloopsarts.ca

THEATRE:

Ongoing through October 30 at Tranquille Farm Fresh: Chimera Theatre and Tranquille Farm Fresh present the Tunnel Tours’ “A Disordered Mind” Follow the true story of one woman’s journey. Tickets available at Kamloops Live.

VISUAL ARTS:

October 5, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm at Kamloops Art Gallery: Logograph.Previously known as The Graphic Novel Club, this program began as a joint initiative with the Kamloops Art Gallery and the Kamloops Library to create a collaborative public art project. Out of this has developed Logograph, a youthdirected club that meets weekly at the Gallery and Library.

Led by our Teen

Intern, this program offers space for creative youth to make art and generate ideas for future projects.

New members are always welcome. 12 to 24, FREE. October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, December 7, 14 October 06, 2016 - Oct 15 Western Canada Theatre: Blithe Spirit. In this riotous comedy, Charles invites the eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to his house as research for his book, but when her séance proves successful, Charles’ marriage is suddenly in jeopardy as the ghost of his first wife haunts him.

While Charles tries to get rid of the ghost, the ghost is hard at work getting rid of his new wife! One husband, two feuding wives and a whole lot of laughs.

October 6 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Kamloops Art Gallery Arbour Aboriginal Art Collective Youth Workshops. Free October 13, 5:00 to 6:00 pm: Art History Happy Hour @ Kamloops Art Gallery.

Learn something new while enjoying your after-work drink.

Every month will offer a new topic on

diverse aspects of art history presented by local artists, educators and researchers.

A cash bar will be available. October 13: Artist’s Talk with Monica McGarry. Each talk is followed by a three hour artist-led workshop on a related theme. No experience is necessary and all materials are provided (and some snacks).

FILM:

October 4 7:00 pm: Design Disruptors Exclusive Kamloops Screening. Join us for an exclusive screening of the InVision-produced documentary DESIGN DISRUPTORS, brought to you by Kamloops Innovation and EasyReg. DESIGN DISRUPTORS reveals a never-before-seen perspective on the design approaches of 15+ industry-shaking companies, and how they’re using the power of design to disrupt billion dollar industries.

DANCE:

Thursdays 7-9pm in the Dogwood Room At the North Shore Community Centre in Kamloops. Dance With Me Kamloops Invites you to join Social

Photo by Adrian Harland

Watchdog throws a back alley guerrilla concert.

Ballroom Dancing.

Complimentary Mini lessons 6:30-7:00 as per availability. Music will provide options for Jive, Latin and Smooth Dance. Check us out on Facebook and www.dance withmekamloops October 9, 8:00 pm - 1:00 pm at the Blue Grotto. Doors at 8pm Daniel Wesley. Tickets are $15 in advance and available at The Blue Grotto, Long and McQuade, ticketweb. ca 19+ show

WELLNESS:

October 14, 4:00 pm to October 16 5:00 PM: Interior Wellness Festival. A free event!

The Interior Wellness Festival is a gathering and a celebration of vibrant health,

passionate living and cultivating a joyful existence! Join with community and explore our fabulous marketplace, healthy cafe, shopping, information, wellness treatments, healing garden, live entertainment, door prizes and draws and more. Admission is free. Once you register, you will be automatically entered into our pre-registered prize draw!Winners will be announced before the event starts and you will be able to pick up your prize.

The Interior Wellness CONFERENCE runs at the same time but it is not free.

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COMMUNITY:

September 28, 2016 - Oct 02, 2016: Brewloops Festival.

Brew Loops is a beer and bike festival celebrating Kamloops Culture. VIP Cask/ Theatrically Inspired Event, Tailgate Style

Outdoor Block Party, Brewery Dinners, Tap Takeovers, Beer Brewing Seminars, Home Brew Competition, Mountain Bike Races, Beer Pairing Brunch, Farmers Market Tasting, Guided Group Mountain Bike Rides. This is no convention center slosh-fest, this is a multi-day experience in beautiful Kamloops, BC with some of the best beer, food and mountain biking the world has to offer.

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Brewing at Romeo’s Kitchen and Spirits at the Coast Kamloops Hotel and Conference Centre. Join us from 5:30-7:30pm , for a fun and interactive cooking demonstration and 4 course dinner paired with BEER. $50 per ticket, order via email or phone with our restaurant staff at Romeo’s Kitchen:manager@ romeoskitchen.ca or 250-372-5312 October 1, 1:00 pm Kamloops Art Gallery: First Saturdays Guided Tours October 1, 1:30pm: The BIG Little Science Centre presents: Sound and Waves Show. Discover good vibrations all around us and how they make the sounds we hear, and those we can’t hear. Use different instruments, and we do mean Different, to make some joyous sounds of your own.

October 1 at Hillside Stadium: Nitro Circus Live!

Direct from sell out shows across the globe, the world’s greatest action sports show, Travis Pastrana’s Nitro Circus Live, is coming to a host of all new

North American cities! Featuring 30 of the world’s best extreme athletes in freestyle motocross, BMX and anything you can imagine with wheels! Plus a host of ridiculous contraptions being launched 50ft into the air, by the crazy Nitro daredevils. Expect to see the world’s biggest and most dangerous stunts, in a fully choreographed, actions sports, theatrical spectacular!

October 2 at Kamloops Heritage Railway: We invite you to our Free Open House event, as part of this year’s Culture Days! Come out and learn about our historic 2141 steam engine, our beautifully refurbished rail cars, the history of railway that helped shape Canada, BC, the Interior and most importantly, the city of Kamloops.We have neat railway artifacts to show off, model trains, old photographs and more! We also are pleased to welcome as special guests, members of the Kamloops Vintage Car Club!

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Interior Wellness

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