The Jamiroquai show here in Toronto last week went pretty well. The venue
(Warehouse) awlays provides bad acoustics though. It seemed more of a
social event with background music provided live for those in the back
mostly who'd seen the last tour in the more intimate Opera House. With
2000 in attendance all standing it was hard to see on the floor.
It was interesting to see the change in status from the cool underground
goup on the last tour to bona fide pop star now. At the after party
normally well behaved people were starstruck which really surprised me and
seemingly scared Jay Kay.
Michael Franti passed through town on Wednesday night performing a spoken
word performance to promote the upcoming Spearhead CD 'Chocolate Supa
Highway' due out March 25th here. Unfortunately of the two cuts I heared
from the promo cassette 'Why Oh Why' and 'Food For The Masses' my
favourite cut was the instrumental version of 'Why Oh Why' remixed my Plug
Won from Del La Soul.
The Ninja 'Stealth' tour lands here this Saturday night at the Warehouse.
Nice to see Canada's own Kid Koala getting his props for the NYC show.
I'll definitely be at the 'Blood On The Fields' show featuring Wynton
Marsalis, Cassandra Wilson and Jon Kendricks here this Monday night.
It is a jazz oratorio with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra based on the
slavery experience. The tour heads to Europe in March.
The last Bump N' Hustle party here blew up to 1000 people who braved -35C
to jam, the show featured a set by Gwen McCrae.
Erikah Badu will roll into down l8ter this month, details TBC.
Currently listening to:
Groove Armada on Tummy Touch Records (damn forget the artist name right
now)
E.V.A. - Fat Boy Slim Remix
Erikah Badu - Baduaism
Brotherhood - Luv N' Haight
Yaima - Pucho - Cubop
On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, William Dwyer wrote:
> >What is the world coming to? David Bowie is actually trying a tinge of drum
> >and bass on his new album, EARTHLING. I'm not telling you to run out and
> >buy it, but if you want to hear an interesting interpretation of dnb,
> >check it out. However, it would probably help if you liked Bowie.
>
> Last Saturday's Amp program on MTV had a Bowie video, which caught me a
> little off guard. I don't know if this video was of one of the tracks on
> his new album but I seem to recall that it had more of a dnb sound to it.
> Of course I may have hallucinated the whole experience...
>
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> bil
> bdwyer@grove.ufl.edu
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