This will be a very short column this week. I am facing serious technological challenges and limitations. To call the past few days frustrating is an extreme understatement! Being without my third arm (or second brain) is akin to a floundering fish gasping for water. In my case, I’m gasping for my laptop. I am lost and bereft without it, and the tiny screen of my phone doesn’t cut it. It sounds ridiculous I know, but when absolutely EVERYTHING we do is dependent on technology, when we don’t have access to it, it become a crisis of world proportions.
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Pat Blythe – Technology vexations…..and a tune or two
Posted in Canadian Music, life, Opinion, Review with tags Brian Hogue, BTBs, C0ndu1t, DBAWIS, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Hirut Café, John Jamieson, luvthemusic, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Podbean, podcast, Sascha Tukatsch, Soundhouse Studio, The Pandemic Interviews on February 23, 2022 by segariniPat Blythe – Where do we go from here? ……and music
Posted in Canadian Music, COVID 19, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Carnac the Magnificent, DBAWIS, Dine Alone, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Doug Varty, Forest City London Music Hall of Fame, Gold Child Records, Indie Artists, Indie Labels, Jack Richardson Music Awards, Johnny Carson, luvthemusic, New Damage, Paper Bag Records, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Pleasence Records, Podbean, podcast, Sea Dog, Six Shooter, The Pandemic Interviews – Conversations in a changing time, Vinyl Recordings on February 9, 2022 by segariniThroughout the past two years we’ve all tried to predict, guess, envisage, calculate, even hope what the future of music will be, once we are no longer struggling and fighting this global pandemic. We have been living in a world that seems surreal…..like a bad dream you wish you could wake up from, just by rubbing your eyes. That anything like this could happen in the 21st century seems rather absurd and unbelievable. Thing is…..it did. We are not impervious, but we are arrogant in thinking that we are. Lately, events have proven that we still have a long way to go. There remains, in all parts of the world, a whole level of uneducated obtuseness that exists even after we’ve heard from Archimedes, Aristotle, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Einstein, Stephen Hawking and their ilk. Baby…..we have a looooong way to go.
Continue readingPat Blythe – Indie Week…..Julian Taylor….podcasting……and music
Posted in Canadian Music, COVID 19, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Avalanche, Bob Segarini, Darryl Hurs, DBAWIS, Desert Star, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Gerry Mosby, Indie Week, John Jamieson, Julian Taylor, Lawrence Gowan, luvthemusic, O Canada What A Feeling, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Princess of Wales Theatre, Rhinegold, Sil Simone, Soundhouse Studio, Talking Red, The Pandemic Interviews, The Ridge on February 3, 2022 by segariniI’m missing the live music, the clubs…..but most of all the people. It’s been two years now since I’ve trolled Toronto’s club scene, traveled with the ONES show and visited the many stages of the various festivals in Ontario. I loved it all….every second of it! I met some of the most incredible people, heard some fantastic music, and was honoured to a part of a scene I had been away from for so long. I made new friends (and lost a few), learned new skills, and was gifted with the opportunity to write this column…..it was a whirlwind six years. Then Covid decided to rain on our parade. The Pandemic Interviews allowed me to stay connected to many of the musicians I met during those five years.
Continue readingPat Blythe- Catch up…..Christmas kiboshed…..and music
Posted in Canadian Music, COVID 19, Family, Food, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Anker, Bob Segarini, Catterick Garrison, Christmas 2021, DBAWIS, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Easby Abbey, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Leeds, luvthemusic, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, podcast, Richmond Castle, Richmondshire, Suzi Kory, The Grove, The Pandemic Interviews, The Redhill Valleys, We The Crooked on January 19, 2022 by segariniThis week’s column is a bit of a mish mash. It’s been six weeks since my last writing and so much has happened (or not happened)! Where to begin?? Let’s see….another variant tanking Christmas and New Year’s Eve for so many of us; a giant roast turkey all dressed up with nowhere to go; dating my couch; a quiet but lovely New Year’s Eve; Christmas decorations still hanging about, and the storage bins to put away; the closing of “indoor damn near everything”; back to dating my couch, but now we’ve got a threesome going with the fridge…..yep, so much has happened!
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Posted in Canadian Music, Interview, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera “The Picture Taker”, Bob Segarini, Cathy Young, Dan Clancy, DBAWIS, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Fran’s Restaurant, John-Angus MacDonald, Kim Mitchell, Lighthouse, luvthemusic, monowhales, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Paul DeLong, Podbean, podcast, podcaster, The Pandemic Interviews – Conversations in a changing time, The Trews, Tom Wilson on November 3, 2021 by segariniThat one just popped into my head as I’ve just finished posting this week’s podcast. I’m now 36 podcasts in, 36 conversations, 36 artist voices, 1,100 downloads, 29 followers and over 3,000 “listens”. People from all over the world including Australia, Europe, UAE, South America, the U.S. and Canada have been tuning in. The purpose was to check in with local artists. As a neophyte podcaster, I had no expectations. Ten downloads made me happy to know someone was listening. Even though I’m still small potatoes, it’s like the little engine that could….it keeps growing by leaps and bounds. Still a guppy in the ocean of podcasts; but folks ARE listening and the music is being shared.
Continue readingPat Blythe – The productive years…..and “bewitching” music
Posted in Canadian Music, Health, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags All Hallows Eve, Bob Segarini, Carlynn Reed, Cherry Cola’s, Dan Clancy, DBAWIS, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Hallowe’en, Halloween, luvthemusic, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Podbean, podcast, The Pandemic Interviews on October 28, 2021 by segariniI came across an article, Between 65 and Death, a couple of years ago, and for some reason kept it. Now that I’ve very recently earned this distinctive “honour” of attaining this magical number (and a government pension), the article popped up again when I was searching for something else. I’m not going to quote the entire piece here, but looking back at those 65 years, man I did a lot!!! A very rich life, full of ups and downs (and some of those ups were worth a whole passel of downs), was crammed into those years. Would I change a thing? In all honesty there are one or two things I’d like to go back and tweak. Do I have regrets? Nope! Well, maybe one…..I never have managed to meet Roger Taylor….yet!
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Posted in Canadian Music, dance, Family, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Alfie Zappacosta, Bob Segarini, Cherry Cola’s, Chris Reed, DBAWIS, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Kirk Reed, Lee’s Palace, luvthemusic, music videos, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Podbean, podcast, The Bee Gees, The Reed Effect on October 21, 2021 by segariniIt’s been a flurry of activity over the past couple of weeks. Thanksgiving was wonderful! I finally had my boys and their wives over dinner…..first time in a very long time. Of course, loads of leftovers which made their way to new homes. Homemade turkey soup dealt with most of the remains. Working on a new podcast project, which is finally gaining some legs (at least up to the knees anyway), and hopefully next week’s meeting will bring it to hip level. Garden work and spending time with friends make up the balance.
Continue readingPat Blythe – Hello September…..music news…..and music
Posted in Canadian Music, COVID 19, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Alessia Cohle, American Songwriter Lyric Contest, Blue Mountain, Bob Segarini, Carson Koa, Cathy Young, Cherish Stevenson, Cherry Cola’s, Collingwood, Country Cares, DBAWIS, dear rouge, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Don’t Believe A Word I Say, Downchild Blues Band, Elyse Saunders, Emm Gryner, Everyday People, Feist, Hawksley Workman, Hot Lips, James Blonde, Jason McCoy, Junction Craft Brewery, Kansas Stone, luvthemusic, Michie Mee, NEWSAID, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Podbean, podcast, Pretzel Logic, Rik Emmett, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, Sarah Smith, Sinful Sundays, Southside Shuffle, Suzi Kory, Suzie Vinnick, Tara Sloan, the Bovine Sex Club, The Carole King Songbook, The Pandemic Interviews, The Redhill Valleys, The Shuffle Demons, Timothy’s Pub, Tom Wilson, Touring, Tribal East, Unison Benevolent Fund, We The Crooked, West End Phoenix, Xprime on September 8, 2021 by segariniSeptember…..the beginning of my favourite time of year. There’s something so crisp and refreshing…..a newness spring doesn’t possess. New jobs, new schools, new grades, new homes, new lives…..September to me has always meant “beginning”. Maybe because it’s the month of my birth, or maybe it’s all the fall colours and brightness of the air, but I always feel inspired and invigorated in the comfortable cool months of fall. Of course, all things pumpkin spice doesn’t hurt either!
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