Hi Our Basement!
Songwriting is the way I process life. It is my outlet, my anchor, and my voice.
I’m so thrilled with Retro Moderne, my latest album (14th overall!) that is officially out now. There was such good chemistry working with producer Gus Van Go and his team that everything just fell into place. The results speak for themselves.
60’s UK mod culture was all about looking sharp under pressure. Styled in brogues, mini skirts and slim fits, riding mopeds; these punks had class even if they couldn’t afford it. It was a matter of taste and dignity against all odds. Moving between vintage pop and hip hop on “Cruel World (Nickel & Dime),” I try to bring this era back to life. Slakah The Beatchild and I wrote this one together.
Thank you for listening!
Lily Frost
Hello,
I will finish this months podcast as soon as I can work out what I should do in the penulimate link
Good day!
Good Morning
any ideas what WR should talk about on the podcast, bearing in mind it is for this site and a community radio station out the UK.
You know you are watching a show filmed in Canada when Enrico Colantoni turns up
Travelers season 2 episode 1
I recognise him most from *Person of Interest*. For your amusement, see the shows he’s been in.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170186/
I remember him from PoI, iZombie, Mysteries of Laura, but most of all from Flashpoint.
He is to Dramas filmed in Canada what Colin Mochrie is to Comedies filmed in Canada, given enough time, and episodes, one of them will turn up eventualy
or Paul Gross
I like the Lily Frost track up there. Groovy baby.
@Garf – Polaris? The long list comes out June 20.
that’s a good idea, he could share Polaris with his British listeners
now I just nead to learn the history of the polaris music prize
how does this sound?
One of the perks of being of my podcast being played on such a well respected station as DH9 Radio is that I not only get to share my love of Canadian music with a larger audience but I get to share some of the events that take place around it.
So with that in mind here is a brief introduction to the Polaris Music Prize.
Starting in 2006 and modeled after the Mercury Prize, Polaris is a music award annually given to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label. The winner was originally award with a prize of $20,000 until it was increased to $30,000 in 2011 before eventually being raised in May 2015 to $50,000. Additionally, each of the nine remaining albums on the short list receive prizes of $3,000.
There is no submission process or entry fee for the Polaris Music Prize. Each of the more than 200 Canadian music journalists, bloggers, and broadcasters that make up the jury, select what they consider to be the five best Canadian albums released in the previous year. The ballots are tabulated with each number one pick awarded five points, a number two pick awarded four points and so on. A long list of 40 titles is classified and released, with this years being announced live on-line on June 20th.
The long list is then sent back to the jury, who use a private chat-room to discus the merits of each album and to advocate for the ones they like the most. The jurors then re-submit five top picks from this long list. These ballots are re-tabulated and the top ten titles form the Polaris short list. This list is released in early July and promoted to the public. A smaller group of 11 jury members “The Grand Jury” who convene in Toronto at the Polaris Music Prize gala in late September to decide the ultimate winner. The decision is finalized during the gala as the nominated bands perform. Grand jurors are selected so that each shortlisted album has one person in the jury room to advocate for it; ten are selected on the basis of having named one of the shortlisted albums as their top pick in the balloting, while the remaining jury position is given to a person who did not vote for any of the shortlisted albums at all.
I will share some of the long list in next months podcast.
That about covers it Garf!
I hope to one day experience that Grand Jury. It would be terrifying but quite an honour.
I hope you do too
All the parts are recorded now, I just need to glue them together and create the imaage.
It should be tomorrows post
is there an exact number of episodes of a TV show can you watch before it is classed as unhealthy?
#AskingForAFriend
I think it has more to do with the number of hours rather than the number of episodes.
It’s like drinking, you are your own liquor control board
6 hours, and counting, I hear
I’ve had several cups of tea so far today but no booze
You should probably quit at 12, at least to get some sleep. altough after that long you will probably dream of whatever you are watching.
I’ll pass that along
apparently the weather got so bad in France that they took the players off the pitch in the Chile Sweden World Cup match
Binge watching is so hard to stop, especially when they just auto start.
and you are 3 seasons behind meaning that you have 32 episodes to catch up on
I now about to start S2E7, I was on S1E11 when I started today
I really should be working on the computer in my room, rather than watching tv in the lounge and messing about on the laptop
@ DBSI forgot to ask how the radio show went
It went alright. A little smoother I think but a bit rushed in the end trying to fit it all in. I had a few minutes less than I expected.