I love the Horseshoe Tavern. She has been a good friend to me. She's never asked me for unrealistic amounts of money, she's provided me with tasty treats (and a subsequent place to pee), but most importantly, she has kept me brilliantly well stocked with access to the best live performances the Canadian Independent music scene has to offer. How could I not love ol' Horsie when it was under her stooped roof that I first came in contact with the gaping, haunted, and pulsating music of Toronto’s own Dinosaur Bones.
A five piece with a thrumming rhythm section, lyrics that balance spectacularly between poetry and candor, and entrancing melodies that have the uncanny ability to inspire out-of-body experiences, Dinosaur Bones is easily one of my top finds of 2008. Impressive, as 2008 was their first year as a band- something frontman Ben Fox, bassist Branko Seckic and yours truly sat down to talk about on Superbowl Sunday, two weeks after their 1 year anniversary performance at (that’s right) The Horseshoe Tavern.
So, I hope you enjoy the second installment of The Greyhound Diaries (a.k.a. The Greyhound Diaries: Layover Edition) as much as I enjoyed making it, and that you get to know the guys behind Dinosaur Bones just a little better for it. I know I did. For example: these two monsters had me believing that the recently released Life in Trees demo was written on commission for David Suzuki as part of a ‘Music To Save The Environment’ project. It wasn’t, and the colour I turned after being found so gullible must have been spectacular.So, do you know what I did?
I lit them on fire. Flaming bits of musician were EVERYWHERE.
Ok, so not actually. I in fact just kind of took it. What can I say? A fan’s devotion trumps all.
(The countdown continues with only 31 days left 'til Canadian Music Week.)
