CMW 2015 Day 8 (Friday)

Hey kids,.

Getting a little loopy with all the choice out there?

Maybe a good way to decompress today is to start your day (at noon) with some good old fashioned Aussie BBQ! Oodles of bands at both the Horseshoe and the Rivoli.

Then a nap...and on with the shows!

Bovine Sex Club  Cafeine, Dead Ships and others

Burdock  Gold Complex, Birds of Bellwoods

Hard Luck Bar  King Tuff **** Elephant Stone ****  go early for this one

The Great Hall  Franklin Electric, Torq from Stars (DJ set)

The Hideout  Diemonds, Standstills

Horseshoe  Gateway Drugs, Twin Peaks, Ghost of a Sabre Tooth Tiger (Sean Lennon's band) ***

Lee's Palace  The Dying Arts, Single Mothers, The Flatliners

Mod Club  Diamond Bones

Phoenix Smashing Satellites, Gloryhound

Sneaky Dees  The Little Black Dress, Fast Romantics, Cairo

Velvet Underground Raygun Cowboys, Broncho, and for the nightowls, RETURN FOR REFUND!!!

Or just pick a place on the CMW list, buy a beer or two and enjoy! It's all good.

See you tomorrow

Ruby Slippers CMW Part 2 May 8 7-8 pm

Hey everybody!

This is the final weekend of CMW and there's still loads to do and see. Can't possibly list or play every band in the festival but this is a sampling of what's been and is yet to be.

Get out there, support your local talent, be an ambassador for those who have come from all over the globe to play in our city! And have a beer for me!

Get Lucky (Daft Punk remix) .... Mercurius FM (DJ, producer)
Supernatural ... Roboteyes *
Pile of Gold ... The Blow
My Love, My Sea ... The Black Fever *
Mind Your Manors ... The Bandicoots *
Hideout High ... Flying Museum Band *
Honestly (Say Something) ... The Deadset *
All Debit no Credit ... The Brood *
Strange Dreams ... Lost Cousins *
Oncoming Clouds ... Tom West (Australia)
Paper Planes ... Lost In Film *
The Sound of Settling ... Death Cab For Cutie
Burnin' and Lootin' ... The Johnny Red Eyes *
Those Who Fought ... The Bends *
Loaded Gun ... Gloryhound *
Count Your Bruises ... the Flatliners *

A big thanks to those who supported CIUT and this show during the last membership drive.
If you missed it, you can still donate by going to the website www.ciut.fm to be eligible for the mountains of free prizes.
(Tell em Ruby Slippers sent ya.)

And as always, thanks for listening.

*Cancon

CMW 2015 Day 7 (thursday)

Hey everybody!

Gotta limit the listings a little bit, as the possibilities get larger in number and it can seem so overwhelming.

If you feel you would like a nudge, consider these. If you are more adventurous, just go with whatever you feel in the moment.

Bovine Sex Club Black Fever, Gateway Drugs, Fat White Family and others.

The Cave The Wild Romantics and Ships Have Sailed plus a host of friends

Cherry Cola Rock n Rolla Isobel Trigger, Deadset, Bleeding Lights et al

Handlebar  Scattered Clouds, Jack Pine and the Fire, more...

The Hideout  The Tungsten Hum, Thought Beneath Film

Horseshoe Tavern  Broncho, Monster Truck ( a fav of Catwoman)

***Lee's Palace *** King Tuff, Twin Peaks

Mod Club  Stuck On Planet Earth, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts (go early)

Painted Lady   Tom West and crew

Rancho Relaxo  Bloody Diamonds, Go For The Eyes (eww)

Smiling Buddha Amos The Transparent, Fever The Ghost

Sneaky Dees  Bad Girls, Mother Leads

Supermarket  if you missed the Indica Showcase on Wednesday, here's your chance

Velvet Underground  Japanese Tongue Sisters, Bamboo, GingerAle and the Monowhales

If you are a Death Cab fan, it's by concert lottery only at Sony Centre  Best of luck!

See you for (gump!) Friday tomorrow

CMW 2015 Day 6

Yikes!
The choices are getting harder! Take a deep breath, go with your gut or have someone else do the choosing. Never a dull moment!

Bovine Sex Club how's about the Marvelous Beauhunks? The Sole Pursuit? settle in and let the night  
                             drift by

Burdock (1184 Bloor West)  Indica records Showcase with Hein Cooper/Tora/Elliot Maginot and                                                
                                                others

Cameron House Greg Mashinter/Flying Museum Band/Jessica Stuart Few and friends

Danforth Music Hall (concert lottery) Walk Off The Earth (it will be all ages)

Drake Underground Secret Broadcast/Slow Down Molasses

Horseshoe Tavern Swervedrive et al.

Opera House buy a ticket for this..limited wristbands Xavier Rudd!!! You're welcome

Parts and Labour Techromancer, and Bravestation (insist they play Haven)

Rivoli  Honeyrunners/Mother Leads (love this band)

Supermarket whole mess of good stuff and Diamond Bones

Stay tuned for Day 7!
Cheers!!!

CMW 2015 Day 5 Wowzers!

Greetings, earthlings.

The schedule is back in full swing today with oodles to pick from. Spending way too much time listening to the bands online while makes choices. Try that if you are overwhelmed. It helps, kinda.

Here's the Tuesday picks from yours truly.

Cameron House Wow. A great line up with 1977, Bloody Five, TV Sets, Autopilot and more!

The Garrison (Toronto Women in Music) Another interesting collection of folk including Maya

                        Postepski from Austra DJ set. Check her out on Soundcloud

The Horseshoe Indie 88's Nu Music Night (we won't hold that against them). The Zilis rock hard.

Painted Lady Bride and Groom, Big Name Actors and friends. Hotcha!

Rancho Relaxo Great food, great music. Lost Cousins worth the wait.

Smiling Buddha Cat Clyde and The Dead Bees plus a whole lot more.

Check the website for the full line up. You can't go wrong wherever the night takes you.

See ya tomorrow

CMW Day 4

Hey everybody!

Monday is a work day, so it's an easy choice unless you have the luck of the concert lottery (Of Monsters and Men at Massey Hall, Noel Gallagher at Sony Centre)
Free show at ShangriLa  Cary Shields, or Sneaky Dee's Steven Joseph

Cheers! Back tomorrow

CMW Day 3

Hey everybody!

Sunday is thought by many to be a day of rest.
Four choices is more restful than having to decide between 20, right?

The Garrison go early, there are limited wristbands (or buy tickets) The Blow, Anna Oxygen

Revival Rebel Coast, Navigate The Sky and more

Unless you win the Concert lottery for Noel Gallagher's band (Sony Centre), head to Parks and Labour
for Philly Moves, Johnny Active.

See you tomorrow. Rest up, OK?