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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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!!! – 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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Before we get into the meat and metal potato’s….. How would YOU, yes YOU! reading this right now, how would you like to win a weekend pass to the Maritime Metal & Hard Rock festival #5 in Windsor, Nova Scotia, THIS July 28 and 29th. This is a $60. cash value (camping NOT included –
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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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On Rosie Morning today Roger welcomed on Award winning pianist from Leo Hayes Chelsea Ahn Stay tuned into CHSR-FM all this week for more great interviews and music from Fredericton student musicians! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | More
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Rosie Morning kicked off it’s Student Music week with Saxophonist Michael Feng. Up tomorrow morning on Rosie Morning is Chelsea Ahn, Award Winning Pianist from Leo Hayes. Stay tuned into CHSR-FM all this week for more great interviews and music from FHS student musicians! Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS |
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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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This episode dipped into new Metal from Coast to Coast! From Vancouver with my good bud’s ’88 Mile Trip’ over to Calgary with some brand new ‘Napalmpom’, OK I skipped the prairie provinces AND Ontario but the next province was Quebec with ‘Special Ops’ who will be coming to Fredericton in May. Also from Quebec
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Ezra from the local Metal outfit ‘Soulstice’ joined me on this episode to talk about the band and sadly it’s imminent demise. The band will be playing a farewell show in June, so keep your ears tuned to CHSR & The Crazy Train for full details on this last show for ‘Soulstice’, and fear not!
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Joining me this morning are Colin Fowlie and Meagan Decourcy of Creative Differences. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | More
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This was an ALL Request Crazy Train episode, so I played what YOU all wanted to hear! Great show! Great picks by you all for requests. I couldn’t play them all, but I’ll have another all request episode in a month of so, so keep it around in yer brain and we’ll get it on next
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On this episode I spoke on the phone with Mike Bernard from ‘District Avenue’ about the bands name change (formerly known as ‘Kickin’ Krotch’), about the recording of the bands debut album under their new name and what’s coming up for them (BTW, the band is in need of a bass player, please get a
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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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Johnny James ‘Dio’ joined me for this special episode of the Crazy Train, as we played out our ‘best of’ 2016 album picks. In the first Hour we played our favorite picks from Indie Metal from across Canada and in Hour 2, the best of global Metal for 2016! Now, just because we didn’t play
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