Been a while my friends! Episode #121 was a pre-recorded episode, but it wont be the last! I WILL however be doing my first live show in a month THIS upcoming Saturday, Sept. 2nd. Episode #121 kicked off with two brand new tracks from Montreal’s ‘Requiomend’ from their album ‘Tide breaker’. Hoping to see the
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Yes, my friends only a couple weeks to go before I see you all in Windsor, Nova Scotia for the 5th year bash of the Maritime Metal & Hard Rock festival! I decided to do another feature just to give a little more exposure to the bands and to you the listeners, so if there
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All Crazy Train Festival passes have now been won! All contests now closed! Thanks so much for those of you who participated. Unlike “MAJOR” broadcasting radio stations, college/community radio can be hard for contests. In the past we’ve almost had to literally just give prizes away, so it means a lot to me when I
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A couple months ago, Sammie X and the Fredericton Metal page on Facebook put together a survey about the local / regional Metal & Punk scene and many of you participated in this survey, which gleaned very important information to not only the musicians, but bar owners and gig promoters. Sammie X has been an
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On Episode #116, I finished off the second part of the Maritime Metal & Hard Rock festival showcase of bands and also dropped the question for the last ‘weekend pass’ that you can still win! On the Crazy Train Facebook page, the first person to name TWO bands playing this years MM&HR fest will win
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Iron Maiden was with me live in the studio at the beginning of Hour I, boy did they ever look different from seeing them live and all the photo’s I’ve ever seen! But honestly, it was Fredericton’s ‘Run For Your Lives’ the cities Iron Maiden tribute band headed up by Aaron Hazlett! We chatted about
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Had the show to myself this 114th Episode, no guests, just me, you and the Metal music! BOOBIES!!! –Â Do I have your attention now? OK, this upcoming Saturday (June 24th) I will begin a contest in which one of you, yes YOU, the listener (erm reader) can win one of two ALL weekend passes to
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Soulstice’s Ezra Seamone joined me at the start of the show to talk about the bands final show happening June 30th at the Panda Bee Catastrophe jam house. Soulstice is a local band that played a great slew of shows in their short life. Winning a Battle of the Bands at Leo Hayes High School,
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Em and Tom from Fredericton’s very own ‘The Green Lung Grinders’ popped on air to join me at the start of episode #111. Albeit their 5th release ‘Toke Signals’ came out a few months ago, it was time to have the gang back on and to get the scoop on the album and what they’ve
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‘Monteithmania’! invaded the Crazy Train on episode #110! It’s been a long wait, but those Monteith Bros, Shaun and Daniel finally did it! While the title track, ‘Monteithmania’ was released earlier in the week, the guys threw another new track at me to debut on the Crazy Train. ‘Monteith’ has taken to the road and
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Sam Odeh from Montreal West’s ‘Special Op’s joined me from the phone as we opened this 109th episode of the Crazy Train. Special Ops was supposed to come to Fredericton for a show at the Centre Communautaire Sainte Anne in April, then May, but due to scheduling conflicts this show has been pushed to September
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On Episode #108 starts off with a thundering brand new track from Fredericton’s ‘Hero’s Last Rite’ – ‘Nothing Left’ is the single released on their bandcamp page. It’s been a good wait for new material from the Hero’s crew and as they say, ‘Good things come to those who wait’. But ‘Nothing Left’ is the
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Finally back! Should be commanding the train with no interruptions until late March/April! I tells ya, we’re sitting on something big. As I said on this last episode, there are so many bands recording or on the verge of recording that the Summers going to be a mega tsunami of new local Metal! On this
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Cable Crusher invaded the studio for a spell on this the 102nd episode of the Crazy Train. The bands been making their mark for about 3 years and are evolving into a tight unit willing to throw down their Punk flavored loudness whenever and wherever they are hailed. I’ll be away for the next two
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First show of 2017! This show was only an hour long because of the hockey game at 7PM. I put together what I call ‘Then & Now’, what will be a series of shows (probably on hockey game nights) that will highlight a Metal band that’s been around a long time with a library spanning
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On this one hour episode of the Crazy Train I delved into our play box to give these bands who send physical copies of their albums to the station some love. This is why it is important/helpful to send a physical copy of your album to as many of the college/community radio stations as you
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All request 1 Hour episode of the Crazy Train. Got in most of your requests. Thanks to everyone who made one! So, we’re sitting at episode #99 of the Crazy Train. My hope was for Episode 100 was to have on the creator of the Crazy Train, the honorable Mr. Andre Faust. But, due to
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All Punk Rock/Hard-Core Crossover Crazy Train edition! Yes! Another wonderful full out Hardcore episode! Lots of angst! Lots of crashing, moshing, beer bottle throwing fun! Next week’s Crazy Train will be an ALL REQUEST episode! Yes, yes my friends, YOU get to program the show! So for Hour I, you need to throw at me
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On Episode #97 of the Crazy Train we had locals ‘Tactus’ in to debut their entire album ‘Bending Light’. Adrian, Alec, Steve and Ben joined me and we went through the album track by track and got into some talk about the bands gear, their touring and plans for the future. The album is now
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Fredericton’s ‘Winter’s Howl’ joined me for a chat on this weekends 95th episode of the Crazy Train. ‘Ruckus’, ‘CuJo’ and ‘Winter’s’ talked about the origins of this new Cross-Over Punk band that’s been on the scene only about a year but has garnered a great following after playing a stint of shows throughout the year.
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Aloha Amigos! On this weeks Crazy Train we brought in some new music from Fredericton’s ‘Dead City Angels’ and a brand new track from Punk-ish-kinda Metally ‘Cable Crusher’.
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On this weekends edition of the Crazy Train Steve ‘The Buzz Man’ was back in the coop! No guests this weekend, so we continued on with dishing out more METAL from bands playing the Maritime Metal & Hard Rock Festival #IV and The East Coast Awakening festivals. There’s a lot of bands, so there’s going
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On this weekend’s Crazy Train East Coast Awakening’s Dave Manning joined us on air to talk about the monster Metal & Hard Rock Festival happening at Keswick Ridge this July. He announced another of the headlining acts, ‘Nervosa’ from Brasil, who are an all female Thrash Metal trio. This will be their very first show
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On Episode #86 of The Crazy Train, Steve ‘The Buzz Man’ and I welcomed on Miramichi Rock up and comers ‘Lionsault’, who were playing a show Saturday night with ‘Chaos Theory’ and ‘Kilmore’, both bands from Halifax. Lionsault’s album came out in 2015 and was a chart topper here at CHSR for many months!! It’s
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Nice to be back! Seemed like weeks since I was on the Crazy Train! Episode #82 was a fantastical show if I do say so myself! Sean Hickey and Matt Leblanc from Moncton’s Abysseral Throne came up to Fredericton to talk about their latest release and to debut their track ‘Wolf Thorn’. Steve ‘The Buzzman’
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