March 25, 2010 - Canadian Music Week/Fest (Putting the "YOU" IN "CMW")

700 Artists! 45 Venues! 5 Nights! March 10 -14! MOVIES! KEYNOTE SPEECHES! AWARD SHOWS! WRISTBANDS!!!! AAAAHHHHAAAAHHHH!!!!

So, thus went another Canadian Music Week*slash*Fest. (That's topical AND funny because Slash was a keynote speaker. Yeah. True story. That's him there <-- )

This week's show is 50% recap, 50% journal entry, and 100% Canindie good times. Yes that makes 200%, deal with it.

What did you make it out to this year? Anything spectacularly spectacular? My top 3 moments were as follows: 1) interviewing Joel Plaskett right after he won for Best Solo Artist at the Indies, 2) discovering the live show wonder that is Gobble Gobble (they play cooking utensils!!!), and 3) somehow ending up at a table for the CRMAs (Canadian Radio Music Awards), with the good company of Diane Foy of Skylar Entertainment. It was just the two of us at the table, so we had out own scary attentive waiter, a three course meal (obviously each) and a bottle of wine (more excitingly each).

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March 11, 2010 - Cold Road Home

February 11 So the anthems episode didn't quite go as planned...

As a faithful follower you will have noticed my absence for, oh... say... about exactly a month? Sorry about that. I have missed being away from the Can-indie glory that is MFH, but between school, sickness, school, renting my apartment, school, visiting family, and school, things got a little insane. However, the real insanity between myself and what should have been the February 11 episode was that when I sat down to prepare the anthems show I was completely unprepared for the task I had inadvertently taken on.

It was a simple oversight based on the fact that THIS WHOLE SHOW is a response to to Canadian national anthem! Of course it is! The mandate of My Frozen Headphones is to explore the ever elusive Canadian national identity through music: the show would never have first inspired me if it wasn't for every Canadian song being an anthem in its own right - perspectives and opinions of the Canadian experience.

So, my task grew bigger and bigger, and my search broader (and broader) until I began to realize that although there is perhaps no clear alternative anthem, there are three themes that reoccur so consistently in Canadian music that together they maybe point to something more important. (Forgive me my earnestness, but I find this sh*t funky nuggets.)

Thus, I present you with "Cold Road Home", the first ever 2 hour, three part My Frozen Headphones episode. Inspired by the music of Joel Plaskett, and the concept behind his 2009 album Three, this is a little something different.

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