September…..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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Pat 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 segariniPat Blythe – Jonathan Antoine, Benefit for Bernie …and Music!
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera, A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Antoine Elhashem, Bernie Sandor, Bob Segarini, Brass Transit, Britain’s Got Talent, Carolyn Kelly, Charlotte Jaconelli, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Helga Schmidt, Hotel California, Jeeperz Crow, Jonathan Antoine, Jordan John, Kim Mitchell, Michael Shotton, Oakland Stroke, On The Couch, Pat Blythe, Port House, Prakash John, Rik Emmett, Robbie Lane, Winter Gardens on June 12, 2019 by segariniI’ve been reminded that things always happen in threes….the cold from hell has felled me, issues with club bookings and now my f**cking roof needs to be replaced!!!! Actually there’s a fourth, a notice from CRA tells me I owe them a whopping $15.43. I’m finding it difficult to think coherently, my eyes hurt, I’m hacking up a lung, I actually feel like napping and I have to be in London on Friday to drive a pace car in a cancer run. Rant over….let the column begin.
Pat Blythe – Bestival, Patios, a Book and a Celebration….
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Al Mair, Attic Records. Neil Dixon, BBC Radio 1, Berkeley Church, Bestival, Bob Segarini, Canadian Independent Music Association, CIMA, CMW, Coalition Music, David Lynch, dear rouge, Dine Alone Records & Bedlam Music Management, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Donnie "Mr. Downchild" Walsh, Dub Pistols, EDM, Festival d’été de Quebec, Florence and the Machine, Frank. Jain McMillian, Greener Festival Alliance, Horseshoe Tavern, Jeff Burke, Jeff Woods, Joel Carriere, Josie da Bank, Julian Taylor, Nas, New Order, ONES, Pat Blythe, radio, Records and Rockstars, Richard Flohil, Rick Derringer, Rik Emmett, Rob da Bank, Sandy Graham, Shakura S'Aida, Sunday Best, The Legends of Classic Rock, Tom Williams, Woodbine Park, Yeah Yeah Yeah on June 15, 2016 by segariniTuesdays are my “writing days” but as hard as I try I am easily distracted (squirrel!!). Today is apparently no different. As I complete my morning troll through FB, I discover all sorts of interesting (and not so interesting, in fact quite wasteful) trivia….but every once in awhile, a gem emerges….like this. Haunting yet peaceful, I’m so glad my friend Donna shared one of these videos on FB.
JAIMIE VERNON – Life’s a Canadian Rock: Book 2, Chapter 4
Posted in Opinion with tags 1989, 1990, Agnostic, Bob Segarini, Brian Gagnon, Bullseye Records, Christopher Ward, Cynthia Ross, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eddie Schwartz, El Mocambo, Faith, Gasworks, God, Jaimie Vernon, Jerry Love, jingles, Moe Berg, Mort Ross, Moving Targetz, music, New Music Seminar, New York, Rich Dodson, Rik Emmett, Rock on August 4, 2013 by segariniRead Chapter 1 here:
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PHASE II, MACH III – PHOENIX RISING
Having spent the better part of 5 years taking my band Moving Targetz from a suburban Scarborough, Ontario basement (a trend later to be repeated by the Barenaked Ladies), burning up the Queen Street circuit, forming a record label and releasing not one, but two, 12” slabs of polyvinyl chloride only to have the band self-destruct on the eve of global domination, I did some soul searching and decided that I really didn’t want the musical ideology of Targetz to die.