The breadth and depth of a city aren’t just measured in physical size or economic weight, but can be considered by the diversity of cultures it contains.
My guest today is Gerry Blom, one of the long-time organizers and the Chair of the Cultural Expressions Festival and it’s Food Committee. The upcoming 9th edition of the festival takes as its theme the entire history of diversity in this country, rather than focus on an individual origin culture. We discuss this change as well as Gerry’s own history working to promote Dutch immigrant culture, and the many activities and especially food that volunteers create and present at the festival.
This year’s Cultural Expressions Festival starts on June 23 at 5pm until 9pm, and continues on Saturday from 11am until 9pm. The entire festival takes place in Officer’s Square unless the rain threatened to wash them away; in case of rain, it will be moved to the Capital Exhibit Centre.
Mark Metcalf interview: National Lampoon’s Animal House exclusive! Playing Douglas C. Neidermeyer! Reflections on Dee Snider and working on two Twisted Sister videos, and more!
Sven-Ole Thorsen interview: Conan the Barbarian 35th anniversary exclusive! Playing Thorgrim and swinging a giant hammer! Working with Arnold Schwarzenegger also in Conan the Destroyer, Running Man, Red Heat, Red Sonja, Twins, etc. Reflections on Gladiator and working with Russell Crowe. Kevin Smith and Mall Rats, and more!
The gang from Monteith joined me fresh off their tour on episode 113 of the Crazy Train
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 – But there’s still ground available).
I’m going to be giving away two passes. There will be TWO questions, Tune in to the Crazy Train THIS upcoming Saturday. It’s going to be a different kinda question you’ll have to answer to win the prize. To win, you’re gonna have to “guess” what the noise is!
‘Monteith Mania’ descended on the Crazy Train Saturday June 10th. Fresh off their first ever tour, riding the wave of their debut album, the guys were still amped! We had a great conversation, one in fact I plan to continue on a future show! I think everyone will dig this interview, as the guys had not ever toured like this before and for some of them it was the furthest they had ever been outside New Brunswick.
A lot of CanCon on this episode (‘Cancon’ is our radio term for Canadian Content, for which we are required to play a certain percent each day, as the Crazy Train’s first hour is dedicated to Canadian Indie Metal, I usually fill my quota quite nicely!), usually only the first hour is all Canuck Metal, but I had some great new albums come in that deserved the attention!
Play List for Hour I: Crazy Train – Ozzy| Abyssonaut – Monteith| Monteith Interview| Rifflords – Monteith| Paradigm Shift – Malixeria| Viral Mantra – Maou Mindu| Get Closer Away – Eckman Dredge| Blackened Sun – Get The Shot| 30 Years – Massive Scar Era|
Hour II: The High Priest – Woodhawk| Specimen X – Kobra & The Lotus| Speak – NinjaSpy| There Will Be Blood – Oracle| Silvera – Gojira| Arbiters Of The Apocalypse – Revocation| Burn It Down – Shattered Sun| Midlife Crisis (Celebrating 25 years since the release of Faith No More’s ‘Angel Dust’ album.
Upcoming Shows:
Saturday June 17th in Saint John at O’Connors Pub
89 Golden Grove rd.
Beyond Eternal with Engage the Threat and Cable Crusher.
No cover charge posted.
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Friday June 30th! Soulstice farewell show!
38 Murray Ave!
Tickets are available through myself or Ezra Seamone
With Soulstice!, The Wasteland Zombies, In The Act of Violence and Gemstones!!
ONLY a limited number of people can come to this show!
So git yer tix NOW! Or you will never ever ever ever, ever ever ever, ever see Soulstice play live again!!
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Get your tickets for the Maritimes Metal & Hard Rock ‘fest #5!
http://www.maritimemetalfest.com
July 28th & 29th (into the 30th) Windsor Nova Scotia!
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And don’t forget Freedom fest happening in the wonderful township of Harvey Station this August 11th to 14th
Go to http://freedomfestnb.com/ for tickets and info on what bands are playing this music festival
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On this episode we hear from great bands like Blue oyster cult, U.F.O ,Canned Heat,Alcatrazz ,Iron Butterfly and many more ……
Play List for 06\09\17
1.Blue oyster cult – Godzilla
2. Pink Floyd -Astronaomy Domine
3. Queencity kids – kids city
4.U.F.O – Doctor Doctor
5.C.C.R – Sweet hitch hiker
6.Jimi Hindrix – Manic Depression
7.Rush – Bastille Day
8.Canned Heat -On the road again
9. Deep Purple – Hush
10. Max Webster -In the world of Giants
11. Alcatrazz – Jet to Jet
12. Black sabbath -Sabbath Bloddy Sabbath
13. Triumph – Spellbound
14. Iron Butterfly – Are you Happy
15. Ram jam –Turnpike
16. Crowbar – Tits on the pavement
17.Queen – Fat bottom girls
18.Matt Mingelwood – Dorchester
19 . Moody blues – I know your out there someweres
20. Rainbow -Since you been gone
21.White snake – Here i go again
22. Lee Aaron -Fire and Gasoline
23.Badfinger – I can’t take it
24. Rolling stones – Sympathy for the Devil
25. Treat Ghost of graceland
July 28th – Halifax, NS – Gus’ Pub and Grill @ 10pm
New episode tomorrow! We will be sitting down with Nick Piovesan from Behold, The Conqueror to talk about their new self-titled album, his adventures in acting and other shenanigans!
If you like a harder edge to your music, you will like today’s top ten. A few pleasant surprises are in store for you. Join Tammie and Roger at 5pm for this week’s Top Ten Countdown!
So the temperature is flailing wildly, your life has you in the dumps and you have no idea what you’re doing. Why make an active choice when you can just listen to solid tunes for an hour straight? That’s my new lifestyle! Avoidance!
This is nothing new and anyone who knows me will attest to it.
Anyway! There’s lots of new (to me and you) stuff on this episode, so take a chance and see if you’ll like some solid tuneskis coming out your way. If not, you will have spent nothing because this is all free. Why am I doing this for free again?
Hi on last Friday episode.We hear from some Great bands and hear just a few we listen to….Fog hat, Moxy,Rush , Streetheart and more ……
Play List for 02\06\17
1.Grand funk – We’er a american band
2. Bad finger – Crocadillo
3. Thunder mug – Africa
4.Deep Purple Expostion\ We can work it out
5.Led Zepplin – House of the holly
6.Streetheart – Under my thumb
7.Greatfull Dead -New Speedway Boggie
8.Black Sabbath- Zero the hero
9. Lynard Skynard- Free Bird
10. April wine- 21st Century schizoid man
11. Ram Jam – Gone Wild
12. Blackfoot – Summer Days
13. Queen city Kids – Rock n Roll Junkie
14. Scorpions – The Zoo
15. Foghat – Slowride
16. Five Man Electrical Band -Absolutely Right
17. America – Horse with no name
18.Teaze Gonna have a good time
19 . Prism – Young n Ressless
20. Canned Heat – On the road again
21. Mountian – Slow Ride
22. moxy- Time to move on
23.Blue oyster cult- R U Ready 2 Rock
24. Rush – Working ma
Atlus brings us another installment in the Persona series, this being my first time playing in the history of the franchise, should this prevail justice or should it have just stayed in Momentos? let’s find out.
In Persona 5 you play as a high school boy who has just been transferred to Shujin Academy in Tokyo, forced to leave his home after being put on probation for being framed for assault of which he did not commit. Your character stays with a guardian by the name of Sojiro, and upon arriving there you realize there is a strange looking eye app on your phone and you delete it and unfortunately, it keeps popping up on your phone. When you arrive at Shujin Academy you are pretty much the most hated student there because of your criminal past, it isn’t until the second or third day you meet Ryuji and Morgana; you are on your way to school and somehow the eye app on your phone activates itself taking you to another world where people who need a change of heart are showing their distorted desires and showing what they think is rightfully theirs, in this case, a palace so your job is to go through the palaces and steal their treasures to change their hearts. After the first occurrence, Morgana explains to you how you are a phantom thief, someone who can go to another world and change the hearts of others, but it is a little more complicated than that in this case, you have to find your next target whether it be a big time crime boss, politician, teacher or hacker; find out where their palace is, invade it, find the treasure, send the calling card, fight this person in order to steal their treasure and this will change their heart. As you progress through the game you will find more companions to go through the palaces with you, Seven others if I am not mistaken.
The Gameplay in Persona 5 is nothing like I have ever seen before when you are in the palaces you use stealth a lot to ambush your enemies, once you get into a battle it is turn based. This Persona is a bit different from what I have heard you can not grind in 5 as much as you could in others which is unfortunate especially when you want to level up; not only do you level up but your companions do as well and your personas. When you are not out changing the hearts of authority figures you are living your life like a normal high schooler, studying, hanging out with friends, holding down a job, having relationships, taking school tests and exam, and so much more. As you progress through the game you will see your relationships increase with your friends and others which give your perks in and out of the castles.
Persona 5 was one of those games if I was not playing it I was thinking about it or talking about it, a great game that really brought me into the love of the JRPG world.
Persona 5: 9.5/10
Good Job Atlus
To rent or buy Persona 5 go to gameaccess.ca Canadas number one video game rental service
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, the band recorded a single, ‘Apocalypse’ which was one of my favorite songs of 2016. Sad to see the guys part ways, but Ezra has plans, so check out the interview and then stay tuned to the rest of the PODcast for some killer METAL!!!
Here’s the play list for Ep#112~!:
Hour I: Crazy Train – Ozzy| Apocalypse – Soulstice| Soulstice Interview with Ezra Seamone| I Am The Plague – In the Act Of Violence| Rot On The Radio – KillDevils| Retaliate & Hate XXI – The Muted Pitch| Baby Take It All – Special Ops| Engage The Weak – Hero’s Last Rite| Opium Harlots – The Green Lung Grinders| Bouncing Betty – Rifium
Hour II: World On Fire – As Lions| Devil On Highway 9 – Danzig| Sacrifice To Purify – Exalt| King Of The Nighttime World – KISS| Chapel of Ghouls – Morbid Angel| Head Like A Hole – Nine Inch Nails| The AntiChrist & South of Heaven – SLAYER| Happy Never After – Suicidal Tendencies.
Upcoming Metal & Punk Shows:
Upcoming Shows:
Monday, June 5th at the Capital complex – Anthesis ‘The Age Of Self’ CD release party
with guests: Stream, Scumlord and |Deep Fryer – Doors open at 8;30PM
Music will be started by 9pm. SERIOUSLY! This way people can go to work in the morning if needed and you can party after the bands if that’s what you need to do.
$6 if you’re cool.
$8 if you’re an idiot.
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Saturday June 10th Dischord/Obscure Illusions live!
Le Up’N’Down resto Bar 3427 Rue Principale Tracadie, NB
10-2AM No cover listed
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June 11th at 6PM head over to 668 Charlotte St. in Fredericton for Dischord and Monteith + TBA
6-11PM 9+, BYOB, $5-10
A portion of this event’s proceeds will be donated to the Charlotte St. Arts Centre to help with their ongoing upgrades. Who wants to rock another all ages show there soon?! Stay tuned to Underground Alliance Recording & Promotion for lots of wicked stuff this summer!
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Get your tickets for the Maritimes Metal & Hard Rock ‘fest #5!
http://www.maritimemetalfest.com
July 28th & 29th (into the 30th) Windsor Nova Scotia!
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Don’t forget Freedom fest happening in the wonderful township of Harvey Station this August 11th to 14th
Go to http://freedomfestnb.com/ for tickets and info on what bands are playing this music festival
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Maximum 110 Metal Radio show hosted by Stephen LeBanc – Sunday’s 10-1AM on BME Radio http://bmeradiolive.myl2mr.com/ –
Kat’s Metal Litterbox Internet Radio Metal 24hrs / day! Best of Unsigned Canadian Metal! http://katsmetallitterbox.com/music-chat/
Casey Margolis Interview: Superbad 10th anniversary exclusive! Drawing dicks in Superbad! Reflections on The Hangover. Also Opposite Day, My Hometown, and Shooting the Musical, and more!
Do you like the band Anthesis? Those who don’t probably need their head checked!………For those of you who do, would you like to hear their new album “The Age of Self” front to back?
How you might ask? By tuning into General Distortion tomorrow night from 10-11:30pm on CHSR!
Scott Miller and Andy Robert sit down with us to talk about their music and the process of making their new album while we listen to it front to back!
Wanna hear it live? Check them out at the following dates!
June 5th – Fredericton, NB – Capital Complex @ 8:30pm
June 9th – Sussex, NB – Uncle G’s @ 10pm
June 10th – Saint John, NB – Secondspin Records @ 6pm
June 17th – Moncton, NB – Plan B Lounge @ 9pm
Don’t forget your earplugs, and don’t forget to purchase a copy of their album, which officially releases on June 9th!
Plenty of awesome stuff down the pipe today! Unleash the Archer’s album “Apex” launches, I found out about a show happening nearby that I’ve wanted to see for some time now, and otherwise? Well, I’m going to ruin my sobriety by enjoying my birthday right after I’m done typing this.
We are defined by who we are are what we know, but perhaps more precisely by who we aren’t and what we don’t have the foggiest idea about..
My guest today is Michael de Adder, well-known for his capturing of the moment succinctly and often hilariously through regular “political” cartoons. He’s published another book of new cartoons, this time satirizing, celebrating and highlighting that eternal Canadian question: “Just who are we, anyway?”
The new book, You Might Be From Canada If… is in bookstores now. We talked about the surprises that come from trying to summarize Canadian identity, some of the classic moments captured by the book, and how things we don’t know inform how we might just be..
The breadth and depth of a city aren’t just measured in physical size or economic weight, but can be considered by the diversity of cultures it contains.
On this episode we hear from great bands like Blue oyster cult, U.F.O ,Canned Heat,Alcatrazz ,Iron Butterfly and many more ……
We are defined by who we are are what we know, but perhaps more precisely by who we aren’t and what we don’t have the foggiest idea about..
