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REVIEWS
ANNIE RIOT
COLUMNISTS JIM SMITH JASON BOLDUC MIKE McCARTHY
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Jennifer Emily/Horror in the Hammer Mike Magee / Stomp, The Union Label Group Keith Maurik / Epitaph Records Hooch Parkins Rebel Time Records Prosthetic Records Collective Concerts Inertia Entertainment Embrace Entertainment
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 8 16
The Creepshow Time travel with Sarah and Mcginty
Nekromantix Behind it all with Kim Nekroman
The Usuals
6 7
Horror Review
The Shitlist
CASE 39
RELEASE 2009
DIRECTOR: CHRISTIAN AlVART Renee Zellweger plays Social Worker “Emily Jenkins” with a feeling of something awry with a new case. After intercepting the alleged abusive parents’ attempts at killing the child, Emily takes responsibility for custody of the child played by “Jodelle Ferland”. Shortly after mysterious deaths start to occur, Emily realizes she’s stumbled upon something sinsister. Case 39 is based on the classic character of the demonic child in such classics like “Rosemary’s Baby” or the “Omen”. None the less it has moments of emotional trama with scenes of fearing abuse from “Spiritual Powers”. The story line has the abusive emotional torment from a reborn demonic enity that prays on the loving and happiness of others. The torrment scene of Emily barricading herself from the abusive powers will make you think twice before closing your eyes to sleep. The random deaths that occur keep this movie moving along quite well on the twisting plot. In the end the realization and references to social responsibility and ethics of parenthood make you stop and realize the conflicts of emotional trauma. The innocence of the child is played well by Jodelle Ferland who brings the character of Lilith to life, with her characteristic blank stares and naive facial expressions. Emily learns that behind the innocent soft spoken child is something much more than meets the eye. The plot follows a suspense type feel about which person is going to get it next. This movie is part of the new genre of spook horror that brings it back to classics like “The Exorcist” and the “Entity”. It seems the new horrors are either remake version of the classics or concepts of mixed plotlines. Although this movie had very little gore and blood to it, over all it carried itself all right. Good work on camera angles to build suspense and heighten scenes.
5/10
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SHITLIST www.withinmagazine@hotmail.com Yeah what’s with people and their fucking turn signals? Chris Well the problem is the majority of people driving around really have no clue or for that fact a fuckin license. Apparently the rules of the road have come down to Post Apocolyptic rules of engagement. If you need to get somewhere throw some spikes on some hockey equipment shave half you head, and have mannequin parts attached to your spray painted car. When they get the fuck out of your way just yell “Gasoline!!”.
Thanks to the guy that put shit in the Mens bathroom Hand dryer. Sean That’s a shitty situation but better than recieving special hand soap from the dispenser. Just adds in a whole new meaning when you yell “Piece of Shit!”.
What’s with the Security at “The Sound Academy”? Hey Asshole do you realize you’re at a Punk Show? People are going to surf in a pit. This is how we do it, sorry if I’m not in a skirt. Brad “UUGG” Me Gorilla Me not understand “Monkey want Banana!”
This ones going out to the fuking Retards who show up at shows thinking they can take on the world. Hey fuckface next time you watch U.F.C why don’t you do everyone a favor and Chokehold yourself. Rick I’ve always assumed that the punk scene was about unity and looking out for each other. The way it’s been going lately with kids misinterpreting Hardcore and what the scene represents are two totally different things. It seems some school yard bullies need to vent out their frustrations of not accomplishing anything in their lives. Hey, you want to vent by all means vent but when it comes to throwing it down in the end you’re going to get what
Just wanted to say Fuck all of you for not writing more into the Shitlist and saying what’s on your mind! Jay I agree i think everyone should feel free to express their thoughts or just something that randomly pissed them off. Let us know what you think @ withinmagazine@hotmail. com
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SARAH SIN REVEREND MCGINTY Interview by Mike McCarthy Jason Bolduc
Sarah Sin Blackwood / Photo: Jason Bolduc
The Creepshow
J.B: Okay so ya Hootennany? SARAH: Whoo Niagara Falls this year! REVEREND: Better than last year. J.B: So you guys endorse it? SARAH: Yeah like we played it a few times. REVEREND: I believe this will be our third time. REV: I saw you guys two years ago at the Hootenanny with The Brains in St Catharines… so fantastic. REVEREND: We’re the even year band, we only play on even years, we didn’t play last year and we played two years ago. SARAH: And ya I like it that it’s in Niagara Falls because (in St Catharines) it’s always raining! REVEREND: The UK was awesome, but it fuckin’ rained, Europe in general it rained. REV: Did you see the whole thing; did you go all the way across it? REVEREND: It was great, not that neglected, they live it better in a lot of ways. REV: Really? REVEREND: In some ways though not that much better. There are actually no coffee makers in the hotel rooms that pretty much sucked. SARAH: Yeah that sucked. REVEREND: There were actually Germans speaking english that I can understand better than Welshmen speaking english. REV: Really? And that’s English english! REVEREND: I didn’t fix my watch the entire time, when I checked it was 5:05 but it was really 10:00…
Reverened Mcginty / Photo:Jason Bolduc
REV: Well I’m a Canadian boy, I love Canada and I want to go to Europe but I don’t know, I like it here. REVEREND: Ya, I love my country but I think that’s something that’s ingrained – “it’s great here” and being from here but being able to travel really opened my eyes. REV: Your fans across the world, do they differ in any way from country to country, can you see the differences. Did skinheads ever show up? SARAH: Oh ya they would show up. REVEREND: Good skinheads mostly but we have had a few bad skinheads – actually they were like Latino kids. SARAH: Ya but no matter where you go you can’t avoid assholes coming up to you. REV: I grew up on the streets of Toronto in the puck scene where people were getting beat up, there
was blood, the bands would stop and it would ruin the show! SARAH: And that’s a situation where it’s just a side of it and it’s what it’s about and it’s like, now you’re just being an asshole. J.B: So you were on Breakfast Television? REVEREND: Actually yeah that was fun and I had a great time doing it, it was just the waking up that wasn’t a fun time. REV: Yeah I wake up at 5:30 and there’s the Creepshow on Breakfast Television - I was like “Oh my God”! SARAH: We were thinking that at the same time you were doing that, it wasn’t a rerun. REV: Wasn’t that in Toronto? SARAH: NO that was in Edmonton. REV: Oh, I didn’t know that. I woke up at 5:30 and watched the Creepshow on Breakfast Television thinking “Wow”. REVEREND: (laughing) Ya that was a rough one, it wasn’t acting, it was so real, we were so tired. SARAH: Ya it was one of those weird things you know, these well dressed adults walking around. REVEREND: Ya I had this lady in a pants suit come up to me (In a Prissy Voice) “It is the Reverend McGuinty, correct?” (Laughter) And I was like, “yes that is right”! (Lady@ Breakfast Television “So how…so…. Psychobilly? Rev: (Laughing) Ya they just have no idea, you’re just showing up in their lives and probably ruining their day, you know, all prim and proper and then “whoa, my god, tattoo people!”
Matt Pomade Gee / Photo:Jason Bolduc
J.B: So what are your old roots? REVEREND: My old roots are the trombone. JB: Ever think of a horn section? SARAH: Oh ya, full piece ensemble would be cool…actually it would be cool to incorporate a ska track or maybe a bag pipe section intro or something. REVEREND: Ya it’s hard to find a good Pipe player! REV: If you guys ever need a bag piper, get a hold of us, my dad’s been playing for thirty years and he would love it. SARAH: All right next record I swear we will write in pipes. J.B: So from Stereo Dynamite to Stomp Records now to Hellcat Records? You guys have both “Run For Your Life” releases on both labels? SARAH: Well here’s the thing about that is we did it for Stomp and have a contract with Stomp and Stomp Records is awesome now we just signed on to Hellcat and we did it as our part of the contract for the release. But the new album is strictly Hellcat Records. REVEREND: Ahh yes that is why we get our three dollar checks from Epitaph! Which comes in handy to buy a pint. Or I should say half pint!
Sean Sick Boy Mcnab/ Photo: Jason Bolduc
J.B: One question I had was about the graphics, who does them for you guys? REVEREND: Actually Extreme Graphics, Russel is our photographer -oh do you mean the design on the back of Sick’s Bass? J.B: Yeah that’s the one, the eyeball that’s on the kit and Sarah’s guitar? REVEREND: Actually yeah that was our friend that did that, it
was great. REV: So yeah I just got back from Montreal from seeing The Matadors. SARAH: We were there and Matt our drummer and his fiancé and I were going to go but it ended up being 20 kms and well that’s my sister’s boyfriend and so I don’t really want to see him pull out a big rubber cock and shoot all over the crowd. REVEREND: Actually the hair on that dick is our friends Kopecks, it’s the actual hair from his head. J.B: So you guys have toured with a lot of good bands like Anti Flag. If you could tour with anyone who would it be? REVEREND: The Specials. I would love to tour with the Specials that would be amazing. I’ve been listening to those guys since about ‘97. J.B: So with all of these breakdowns of different sounds with Psychobilly to Horrorbilly to punk what are your thoughts on that? SARAH: Ahh you know what I’m so sick of all these 13 year old kids argue about who’s more punk rock - The Clash or Nirvana… REV: Was it the Ramones, was it the Clash, was it….? J.B: Sigue Sigue Sputnik! (Laughter) SARAH: Ya I think music is music, people are going to use what they want to use and create what they want to create. REV: Absolutely, if it wasn’t Elvis, it would have been somebody else, if it wasn’t Metallica, it would have been somebody else. REVEREND: I think we should all sound like The Bosstones. (Laughter) . J.B: So if you guys could change anything that you’ve done, would you change it? Reverend: I would like to say I have seen “Back To the Future” for the millionth time. J.B: It’s all about the Flex Capacitor! REVEREND: Totally, well that and “Huey Lewis And the News”. SARAH: (singing) “If I could go back in time”. REVEREND: If Doc Brown came up to me “”AHHHHH McGuinty you have to get in the de Lorean and travel to save the Misguided Children of the Future. When this Bad boy hits 80, hold on you’re going to see some serious shit”? I would SO be all over that. SARAH: I don’t know what I would change that’s a good question? RIOT: I would invest in Lulu Lemon. Everyone: What? RIOT: Yeah that’s kind like a lot of things it’s like the story of Lulu Lemon he actually made fun of it because in the Asian market it was misspelled Ruru remon so he made it that way because it was funny. REV: Seriously what a dick. REVEREND /SARAH: Man that is too funny in such a wrong way what an asshole. REVEREND: I guess that’s how he got so successful...suckcessful... J.B: Ahh talking about that, how do you guys manage on a personal level with relationships being on such an extensive tour? REV: Do bands like hit each other or something, I mean, you’re workmates. REVEREND: Actually I hit on Sarah one night and she ended barfing in my face. So that ended that relationship right there. SARAH: Actually Sean has his thing going on, McGuinty’s is engaged and I’m just a rock star
I guess I’m not in a relationship because I’m dedicated to my work I suppose.
Sarah Sin Blackwood / Photo: Jason Bolduc
J.B: Yeah it’s like the cover of “Sell Your Soul”, you know it’s like that the Devil coming up out of the ground, sign your soul here forever more….ahh marriage…. SARAH: Yeah people don’t need to get married as long as they’re happy. I mean that’s what counts right, I mean marriage is hard it’s a really hard thing it takes a lot of work. REVEREND: Actually when I was in Germany a German guy came up to me and said, “Are you going to Switzerland? If you do you should find a nice girl there. I was like “why?” He said because the Swiss are rich. (pause) “Okay I will”. REV: That’s brutal honesty there! J.B: It’s not all about money, it can’t buy you everything! SARAH: Ya that’s true, it shouldn’t be about that it should be about so much more and being with the right person.
REV: If you guys are on tour and you guys are just sick of it and need to just chill, what do you guys do? SARAH: I just sit back and watch some movies and have some quiet time mostly. REVEREND: I mostly watch Star Trek or TV. REV: Do you guys venture out and mingle at different bars on tour? SARAH: if you’re in a city that has something to do, ya. These guys do, I don’t really… J.B: So what do you guys listen to, any hardcore at all? SARAH: Do I listen to any hardcore? Not really any more I used to. But I love metal, I listen to it all, I mean I love Aerosmith (wearing an old Aerosmith shirt). (Sarah admits who her rock star crush was but we edited it for her protection) J.B: It’s all about Corey Hart. REVEREND: No actually every time I see someone wearing sunglasses “I say what’s up I wear my sunglasses inside” And then oh wait I fucked that up it’s (EVERYONE) “I wear my sunglasses at night…” REV: I had Sell you Soul in my CD player for four months, nothing but “The Creepshow all the time. I love seeing you guys all the time it’s such a fantastic show to see. REVEREND: I would be the Deadhead of The Creepshow man and cruise around to every show. J.B: Horror movies! What’s your favorite Horror Movies? SARAH: My favorite Horror movie of all time is ‘Nightmare on Elm Street 3-Dream Warrior’. REVEREND: I’ve seen on TV three times the original ‘Amityville Horror’, I also just rewatched ‘28 days Later’ despite the whole frontal bush nudity it was quite excellent. SARAH: They actually cast the zombies the way they should be.
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RIOT: No because they’re rotting, they’re decaying, they’re decrepit, they should not be fast… REVEREND: Okay, here’s my take on this business, I don’t like zombies that sprint, I think zombies should be slow and when they get near you they should give a good leap so you could get away like an Olympic runner… it’s like vampires, they got garlic…but regardless 28 days is a fuckin awesome movie. REV: Well you guys gotta go thanks so much for shooting the shit it was great!
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Kim Nekroman JB: So you are back after the last time you were here with Rob Zombie, how was that tour? KIM: It was great, it was different, because, well obviously bigger venues, a totally different audience. I had expected Metal Heads but it turned out to be a bunch of Horror Movie geeks. NOMES: All those kids you mean that follow his movies… KIM: Ya exactly, to be honest I was a little hesitant about saying yes to that tour because “The Damned” did that tour in 2001 and had to drop out because Rob Zombie’s metal fans were booing them off stage. So they had to drop out and “I’m like emmm, I don’t know” …But apparently his whole audience turned into these geeky...geeky horror fan types, you know what I’m talking about? JB: I know exactly what you’re talking about! So what was that like being on that stage with the lighting rig and all that? Hot as Hell? KIM: Ya, I mean, we didn’t have the same…he had the whole big thing with the screens and whatnot and I was a little more limited but you know it was cool. It was cool because it was good exposure for the band. JB: A lot bigger than most other Festivals? KIM: Ya, it was like 4000 seaters, the arenas were huge, so it was cool. JB: So any association to being trapped in a tin can thousands of feet beneath the water to the “Coffin Bass”? KIM: Well, not really to the Coffin Bass but the lifestyle and the way of touring, living like this, well this is luxury compared to the sardine cans I was in but I kind of brought the same on this thing (Winnebago tour bus), I mean this is why it’s so fucking clean because most tour buses are so dirty, it looks like you know, a teenage guy’s bedroom… (laughter) Which you have to living in close quarters like this. But from submarines to coffin bass, no connection there.
Kim Nekroman / Photo : Jason Bolduc
NOMES: Did you keep the discipline from the navy into your daily life? KIM: Ahh not my life but my touring life, yes, anybody on my crew will say ya, I’m the Captain of my ship. JB: Well its dedication. When you first decided to start a band did you have any influence growing up on Strøget St? KIM: Ahh say what? What street? Stroget! Well actually…. why do you ask? JB: Well it was interesting; I was reading up on it and a lot of bands that I know they do a lot of busking. KIM: Well that’s exactly what we did! If you look on our Facebook or MySpace page there is a picture of our very first busking on the street, actually rehearsing our first album before we went into the studio because we didn’t have any rehearsal room, so we did it right there on the street, we played our own original first album songs while making money. NOMES: And no one kicked you out of the street? KIM: No, we didn’t, I can’t remember back then if you needed a permit or it was between certain hours or they just didn’t really care at that point, but later they went berserk about that. NOMES: In Hamilton, you can’t even busk. They protested and had a busking day where they shut down one street, but you can’t busk. JB: Ya they fine people all the time. KIM: I can understand if people bring out the whole rig with amplifiers and shit, but acoustically is fine. JB: So the name Nekromantix, any association with the “87” Horror? KIM: Yep, definitely, it’s heavily inspired by that movie. JB: I’m still trying to find it I can’t even get in stores! KIM: What about online, I’m pretty sure you can get it online. That movie is amazing; it’s so nasty and amazing. “Number two” isn’t as good, I love that movie because it’s German, so it’s like filthy dirty and the way they act is almost like “is this snuff or what the fuck is going on here”…. JB: Is there a link between the taboo world of the fetish scene lyric wise or what inspires you to kind of go that way? KIM: Hmm I don’t know …nothing is really sacred when it comes down to it in my opinion, I obviously love Horror movies and I’m a huge horror movie fan and that’s the way I write lyrics. It can be about normal life but wrapped in a horror story. If you want to, you can read more into those lyrics and see that it is about something else or it just straight up plain horror story. Like a love song obviously turns into like a necrophilia type of thing you know. So... it’s not like “I love you, you love me” blah blah blah...
JB: There was a guy in my hometown that got charged with “Necrophilia” it was kind of bizarre! KIM: Yeah, WOW! JB: Ya kids digging up graves to steal stuff! It was quite the small town. So what do you think influenced the psychobilly scene? KIM: Before I answer that you know stuff like that always happens in little towns like that. That’s where all the freaks are. (Smiling) NOMES: Have you guys ever been north of Toronto? KIM: Ahhh no, there’s a reason why? JB: I’m from Northern Ontario, it’s 6 hours north of here. KIM: Is there anything up there? JB: The bush, country, mining….A lot of crazy people that chase you around… KIM: …Like what Bears, Nature right...That’s cool but, I mean for touring it’s probably... Franc / Photo : Jason Bolduc JB: Well there’s Sudbury… Sudbury is a pretty big city. There is a bar there called “The Townhouse”. KIM: There is a bar? Actually a bar with a roof? NOMES: How many Canadian cities have you been to? KIM: Uh, I don’t know, we’ve been up here a few times now and it’s always the same, you know Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Banff...and then across Thunder Bay...Regina...what else is on the way? ...Winnipeg. JB: So back to the question? Back in the fifties it was a different culture back then, it was a lot of the cars and the outcasts and it kind of evolved from that to the sixties and the seventies were just kind of lost somewhere in that direction…Do you think the scene has a background in that? KIM: Well Psychobilly started in the U.K where you have Rockabilly started in the US, with the Americana thingamajig and the Psychobilly starting in Europe in the late seventies was like a result of all the seventies…like Shaken Stevens, all the Teddy boy movement and the neo rockabilly. There was the Cramps on this side of the pond. A little different direction, but a kind of parallel where with psychobilly, you had the punks of the seventies kind of digging the old fifties music and playing with a different energy and that turned into starting the psychobilly scene… you have the haircut, it’s kind of like a mix between a flattop from the fifties and the Mohawk, and that’s kind of how it started over there. Then years later, the US and North America discovers psychobilly but all of a sudden it’s mixed with the hotrod culture, the greaser thing and it still had that Americana thing to it but Europe is still more influenced by the British punk scene even today. JB: So I grew up around cars with car parts everywhere when I was a kid, what about yourself? KIM: Well there was a different car culture over there, first of all it’s hard to even get American type cars in Denmark, small country and they charge I don’t know how much customs when you
try to import them. Fifties, sixties cars from there is like a different thing, it’s not that huge. JB: So you’re into classic cars? If you could have any kind of classic car what would it be? KIM: My favourite car is a Cadillac, I have a ’59 Cadillac. NOMES: You’ve been living in California for a few years was it a culture shock? KIM: Ahh, well not really culture shock, well right now, that’s where I live and that’s what I prefer and because I’m into cars – I have several other fancy cars and that’s just the place to be. And I dig the weather, well also because, 95% of the record sales, touring is North America so it makes sense to be over here instead of flying back and forth and do the work visa thing every time. JB: Well that’s one of the questions, is that why he (Peterson) left? KIM: Well around 2000 there was a period in the band’s career where nothing really happened, it was just Europe and not many gigs and that’s when it took off in the US and we got signed to a US label and we started touring a lot and it just made sense to pursue that and be close to the fire sort of, to the label and touring… JB: A lot of bands when they’re playing stand-up, I notice that if they’re playing a large set or really fast, they tape their fingers…. KIM: Pussies! (laughs) JB: No like The Brains… KIM: No I said , pussies, Actually, if you look at my fingers, I was kind of out of the loop, but I had huge, bloody blisters and there’s only one way to get over it, is to keep playing. I did try taping them but I don’t have the same skills, I can’t feel the strings and they slipped off so… (shows me his fingers that are scar tissue from being blistered so much)
Lux
JB: So do you enjoy the break then, playing the guitar? KIM: Yeah, definitely, when I get fed up with this, then it’s time to play guitar. JB: Got to say, I haven’t heard anybody play as fast as you that’s for sure. I’ve seen you guys in Hamilton at the Underground before it shut down and the place was just rocking so… On your downtime, do you pretty much just hang out and enjoy yourself? KIM: What downtime? Not really because if it’s not this band, it’s the other band, if it’s not touring it’s recording. Whenever I do have a little downtime, I’m messing with my cars or building a bass. JB: So it started off with the child coffin, then it involved something to transport right? KIM: Well this one… total, I’ve made maybe six or seven, I’m making two new ones right now, this one is from ’92, it’s not my newest one because the new ones are more collapsible. This has just been my all time favourite, I remember the first time I went to USA, Kim Nekroman /Photo : Jason Bold New York, to play a big festival there and we didn’t have visas or anything and obviously I couldn’t just play a regular bass because it’s a trademark, it was, I think the night before, I cut the neck off and got - you know the support thing for a shelf, the bracket - cut it and put it on. If you looked at the bass it was so obvious it was a bracket sticking out, but that meant I could take the neck off and when we entered New York it was like in 2 parts and wrapped in a cardboard box and they asked me “what is that” - now this was Halloween - ”oh, this is a coffin bass because it’s Halloween” and they were like “oh okay, go ahead”, I don’t know if they believed me or not but it was more like “Whatever”.
JB: What’s your favourite Horror movie? KIM: “Nosferatu”, the good old one. JB: ahh Bela KIM: NO, even older, the German version, the silent movie. Nothing beats that one still. I’m a fan of all the sixties and the seventies, that one still is the best one. JB: Every year on Halloween, do you guys do a special show? KIM: Mostly, the last few years it’s been the HorrorPops doing Halloween shows which we’re doing this year. Basically with this band touring, everyday is Halloween. It depends on where you are, in the UK, they sort of have it, we have something similar in Denmark, midsummer when we burn witches and stuff like that. And we have another
where we dress up and get this barrel, like a piñata but in Scandinavian style, it’s a barrel with a drawing of a cat on and in the old days there would be a cat in there and all the kids smack the fuckin’ barrel, but now it’s candy and whatnot and the grown-ups had like joints or alcohol in it. It comes from burning the witches and all the witch hunts. So we’d burn them and send them off to somewhere in Northern Germany, you know pagan style. (Laughter) JB: If you could tour with anyone who would it be?
KIM: Ahh actually I have no idea. JB: MAD SIN? KIM: Well I toured with MAD SIN, they are old friends of mine, I was hanging out in Europe and going to all these shows, so he started MAD SIN and a year later I started Nekromantix. So I always toured with these guys, I’ve toured with all the psycho bands already or played in them so…. JB: So you’re venturing into new territory with the (Rob) Zombie thing. KIM: Ya, I’ve been touring with Rob Zombie, Danzig, Offspring. JB: So are you guys going to do any covers tonight? Kim: We’ve done one, “Light my Fire” and we only did that one… JB: I hate the Doors so much! KIM: Well me too! That’s the funny part, I fuckin‘ hate that band too and I remember our record label in Denmark, I was discussing it with him and I said “you know what, I dare you, if we record whatever cover they’re duc going to play us on the radio because so far they hadn’t. And we recorded that song and what happened they played us on the fuckin’ radio. So that’s the story behind Nekromantix covering “Light My Fire” and I fuckin’ hate the Doors. We did another cover but that was not really album related, it on a TV show, we covered this European disco song “Born to be Alive” Do you remember that one? You can find it online actually. JB: When is the tour done? KIM: All the way up to September 19 then probably going to go start some new HorrorPops songs. JB: I was blessed to see you guys in Hamilton and that was before the passing of Andrew and that man was the most insane thing that burned in my mind was just hardware flying because he was playing so fast and just so dedicated and so is that the same now with Lux? KIM: YEP and like I was saying I need another short Mexican and it happened to turn out female and she’s playing in high heels which Andrew would have been stoked because when he was not on tour he was the “AL BUNDY” of psychobilly, he sold women’s shoes in the mall. So he’s sitting up there or down there having a ball. NOMES: Is it hard to go back and play that same music now that he has passed? KIM: Well of course, there isn’t a day goes by that I don’t think about him, but I know that he wanted to see the band keep on going. JB: Well especially now that you guys are really big now, they say it’s cult status. I enjoy it because you guys always haul ass. Nekromantix is one of the first psychobilly bands we started listening to a lot of the older stuff and then we listen to the Matadors but they seem more like rockabilly, more a country influence. KIM: Well it’s more roots-y than Americana, that’s what I call it, I guess folky.
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NOMES: I find your music more jazzy, bluesy sounding rather than everybody else is more country sounding. KIM: I guess because my background is not really, it’s Scandinavian, there is no ‘country’ there, it’s folk music, it’s totally different and I was brought up with old fifties rockabilly from my mum, you know Elvis… Johnny Cash is the most American country so… JB: Me too, well thanks for the interview Kim, looking forward to the show!
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The Creepshow “They All Fall Down”
Release October 05 ,2010 Stomp /Union Label
The Creepshow have been on an extensive tour promoting their previous release “Run For Your Life” and now delivers back to back energy with “They All Fall Down”. The Creepshow’s notorious energy on stage and off never lets you down. With full on double bass pounding with rhythmic organs to melodic vocals, The Creepshow delivers again. With catchy breakdowns and crowd choruses and the infamous swinging rockabilly riffs, “They All Fall Down” will leave you wanting more. From “Get What’s Coming” to “Someday” the band takes a different approach back to their earlier roots with an upbeat faster melodic feel. The new album seems to break away from the Horror scene to more lyrical content of life experiences and relationships gone awry. Catchy 1950’s style classics like “Last Chance” and “Sleep Tight” show there is more to the psycho scene than zombies and brains. The fast energetic rhythm of power chords and thumping bass lines with backing vocal hymns will burn it’s memory into your brain and make you sing along in no time. This band remains to be a force throwing everything right out in the open, once again never a disappointment. I haven’t taken this out of the car since I got it.
The Dreadnoughts “Polka’s Not Dead” Release September 28,2010 Stomp /Union Label The Dreadnoughts formed in 2006 out of the dingy scene of Vancouvers notorious East side. This punk folk band continues to deliver on their latest release “Polka’s Not Dead”. Incorporating everything from mandolins to tin whistles, fiddles and accordians this band brings the energy back to life. There’s a bit of everything from traditional Folk to Gypsy dances, to tales of Sea Shanties. This album makes you want to consume mass amounts of alcohol and start jigging away. It delivers a mix of energy with enthusiasm and chorus and tends to stick in your head like the folk tales you heard as a child. The main track “Cider Road” starts the album off on a high surge followed up by the crazy gypsy caravan traveller of “Goblin Humppa”. The Irish sailing choruses deliver an uncompromised story of triumph and defeat, giving you that feeling of a more simplistic time. From “West country man” to the French classic folk of “Poutine” this album has it all. If you like catchy folk chorus and hymns or have an inner bit of Irish in ya, this is sure to be a classic.
Cincinnati Records Proudly Presents
The long-awaited return of, ...NASHVILLE PUSSY with special guests, CIVET +THE VANISHERS
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 22, 2010 9PM 19+ $20 CASBAH, 306 King St W Hamilton http://www.casbahlounge.ca
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Thursday, October 14, 2010 @ The Kool Haus
BAD RELIGION
BOUNCING SOULS OFF WITH THEIR HEADS Doors: 7:00 Tickets: 29.50 advance Door price TBD
Friday, October 15, 2010 @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre The Creepshow CD release party
The Creepshow THE CREEPSHOW @ 10:15 MUSTARD PLUG @ 9:15 BEATDOWN @ 8:30 DEALS GONE BAD @ 7:45 DREADNOUGHTS @ 7:00 $17.50 advance $19.00 @ the door All-Ages/Licensed
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