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Mind Your Own Business // Show Booking Best Practices

Finding the right venue to play can be hard, even for the most seasoned touring band. How do you contact the venue? Should you call? Just email? They’ll be able to fit you in a prime slot in two weeks, right? Wrong.

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THE CRAZY TRAIN EPISODE #CXXII

Well I gotta say, it was great to be back doing a live show for you all, even made greater that I was joined by ‘General Distortions host Johnny James ‘Dio’ for the two hour special on this past July’s ‘Maritime Metal & Hard Rock Festival #5’. In the first hour we played the interviews

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The Crazy Train Episode #CXVIII – MM&HR Feature #2

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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The Crazy Train Episode #117

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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The Crazy Train Episode #CXV

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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The Crazy Train Episode #CXIV

Had the show to myself this 114th Episode, no guests, just me, you and the Metal music! BOOBIES!!! – 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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THE CRAZY TRAIN EPISODE #CIX

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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The Crazy Train Episode 99B

So this weekend’s Crazy Train was actually supposed to be an earlier episode that I missed because of illness. The episode was supposed to be a “preview” show which included bands that were playing the Panic Room in Saint John on Saturday November 19th. And, just before the live show aired CHSR had their annual

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