PopCanon RANT & RAVE #1 has been lost in the ether of the so-called 'internet', but I'm sure it was very clever and funny and welcoming...
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PopCanon RANT & RAVE #2, for 14 April 1998.
Hello again, PCFans...
First, the UPCOMING SHOW--then some background infotainment.
**this Thursday, 16 April: PC plays a benefit for Campus NOW at the
Hardback Cafe, with Amanda Garrigues, Mahoney and Reina Aveja. Spread the
word and support your local feminist!
THE INFOTAINMENT:
This Thursday, 16 April, the Covered Dish and 97X are hosting the first
annual Hogtown Music Awards honoring local musicians and DJs. PopCanon
is nominated in three categories:
*Best Ska Band (we are not a ska band! though
we've learned from someone at MOON that the other two nominees
--Less Than Jake and the Usuals--received about 60 nominations each,
to PopCanon's FOUR: the very definition of a statistical anomaly)
*Best Pop Band (duh!)
*Best local CD Release (for the still available
Kingdom of Idiot Rock)
We just missed nominations in Best Drum & Bass DJ, and Best Old Wave DJ...
Performing at the Dish that night will be Rob McGregor (he of the great, funny and disturbing set at the Crystal benefit last week), Elaine Mahon, The Rails and Super Sugar.
However, PopCanon will NOT be attending the Hammies, because we'll be
ROCKING for WOMEN'S RIGHTS at the Hardback that night... We'll be playing
a benefit for Campus National Organization for Women from 10pm-2am.
The lineup:
10pm--Amanda Garrigues
10.30--PopCanon, featuring a new Alyson Carrel number called 'Penis
Envy' and our rocking cover of The Great Big New Ones 'War Machine' (aka,
'Fuck You--You Broke My Heart!'), and our most popular new artrock number
also sung by Alyson--'Mina Loy', about the tremendous writer/painter/sculptor/poet
of the 20's and 30's.
11.30--Mahoney, four women carving the slab of rock before your eyes
12.30--Reina Aveja, spanish for 'Queen Bee', so there you go...
Please find a way to split the timespace continuum and attend both shows...
[The next night is the HotPlate Benefit for NCFAN at the Dish--a cause PC supports, even though we were not asked to play...Friday's show features the always monstrous WhoreCulture and SQUEAKY's last show for awhile, until they get a new drummer. We'll all be there, crying manfully into our sleeves at the temporary sidelining of Gainesville's finest noiserock band.]
Other news: PopCanon just played two great shows with the wonderful Tuscaloosa band Pain in Pensacola, FL and Mobile, AL this weekend. They have even more members than us (including a keyboardist and trumpet player) and they are also NOT SKA!
We stayed at an old beachhouse in Gulf Shores with them for one night, and there was much rejoicing. They are very, very nice people and their music and stage show--featuring the mutilation by moshing fans of a custommade balloon/cardboard/feather puppet--is simply brilliant.
Look for more shows in the future with us and them, and go buy their two CDS--'Midgets With Guns' and 'Wonderful Beef'-- right now!!
That's all for now--thanks for listening.
Ned 'The Spice Girls are so OVER!' Davis
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PopCanon RANT & RAVE #2.5--the addendumb!
OK, so the mailrobot that signed my name to YESTERDAY'S R&R has
been sacked, because it forgot that PopCanon has
ANOTHER gig this week, too! Sorry.
FIRST, tomorrow, Thursday 16 April:
PopCanon plays a benefit for Campus NOW at the Hardback
Cafe
10pm--the Amanda Garrigues RockSplosion (with Ned on 6string bass)
10.30--PopCanon, featuring Alyson Carrel and her Grrl Power Review
11.30--Mahoney, full of rock
12.30--Reina Aveja, the Queen Bee's knees
Spread the word and support your local feminist!
ALSO, on Saturday 18 April:
PopCanon is playing in St. Augustine--road trip,
dudes and dudettes!
Varangian '98--described by the promoter as a 'cheap knockoff of the Alachua Music Festival'--takes place on the campus of St. John's River Community College all day Saturday from 10am - 7pm. Featured Gainesville performers are PopCanon (duh), Noah's Red Tattoo, Slack Season and the Usuals. Five St. Augustine bands will also play.
[Directions: Go through Palatka and take 207 to I95. From I95 take SR 16 east until you see the campus of SJRCC, and follow the noise.]
PopCanon is scheduled to play at *2pm*, with all other Gainesville bands to follow.
FINALLY, the robot forgot to give the shoutout to the incomparable Shermy D: Sherm's last show playing the funkyass skins and rocking the M-I-C with Squeaky is Friday night at the Dish. Please attend and make the 'Raising the Roof' gesture with your hands and shout '[beat] Go Shermy! [beat] Go Shermy! [beat] Go Shermy!'
Sorry for being a dumbass,
Ned 'the REAL Roxanne' Davis
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This is the PopCanon RANT & RAVE #3 for 14 May 1998.
Hello again, Canon Fodder...
First off--COME TO THE SHOW TOMORROW! Friday night we're playing
with the Usuals (who kicked our ass in this
year's Hogtown Music Awards in the category Favorite Ska Band and Album
of the Year), and with our dear friends, the
extraordinarly wonderful Tuscaloosa band PAIN! It's at the Covered
Dish: we play first, Pain next and the Usuals close out the night.
Be sure not to miss our version of 'She Blinded Me With Science', featuring
our pals in Pain saying 'Science!' and 'Good heavens, Miss Sakimoto, you're
beautiful!'
Next: remember the old newsletter? The one made out of paper? We're still doing those--in fact, if you signed up for that list, you should have received the latest one yesterday or today. If not and you'd like to sign up, just send us your name and address (including ZIP), and when the next issue comes out in glorious black & white, you'll be there!
And we're at work on our next recording project: in a few weeks (barring
yet another Medfly outbreak that keeps the band apart), we'll be entering
the new studio in town, The Sound Refinery, to record a few new songs with
Mike Rotalante, he who
engineered the Squeaky and Crustaceans CDs. On the slate are
'Mina Loy' (Alyson's tribute to the brilliant writer/painter/poet/sculptor
from the 20's and 30's), 'See You' (an old song of Ned's and Bill Stephenson's
from their days in
What anne Likes...) and 'Ode To A Weasel' (secretly known as 'InSite'
by the non-Corn Burglar faction of the band).
And if we have time, we'll probably rip through some of the cover songs
that we know and love.
Plus we'll also include a few of the tracks left off of 'The Kingdom
of Idiot Rock' too: 'Little Green Men', 'Tin Can', 'Things About Which',
'Silly Putty', 'Suitcase', plus an acoustic version of 'The Reason' and
a wacky dance remix of 'Merimble' ... You don't want to miss it!
UPCOMING SHOWS:
Saturday, May 16, at a haunted castle in Melbourne, FL: a birthday
party for Scott Becky of Dirty Poodle!
Friday, June 12, at Barnstormer Pizza, Montevallo, AL.
Saturday, June 13, at the Chukker, Tuscaloosa, AL. with Ritual Heads
Friday, June 26, at Sluggo's, Pensacola, FL with Crustaceans
Friday, July 10, at Dottie's, Atlanta, GA. with the Lizardmen
See you in hell!! (Sorry, that's the Medfly talking.)
Ned
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This is the PopCanon RANT & RAVE #4 for 8 July 1998.
Hello again, Canon Fodder...
Much has transpired since we last threw some electrons at you back in May:
* PopCanOnLine is NOW at http://web.popcanon.com !
* Ned has singlehandedly vanquished the Medfly, but sadly, only
by setting fire to half the state
* PC has recorded 16 new and old songs
* Capt. Hornbuckle's LoveVanARama has died a tragic death
* PC has three songs in rotation on B92, Radio Free Serbia
* and we're going to be on a skapunk compilation of RockyHorrorPictureShow
songs...
First things first: COME TO THE SHOW! It's this FRIDAY, 10 July, at DOTTIE'S (307 Memorial Drive) in ATLANTA GA. OK, we know it's a little far to drive, but c'mon! It's your only chance to hear us until, um, next weekend, when the PC Trio (Dave, Ned & Robby) play Friday the 17th at Maude's Cafe', and Saturday the 18th at Common Grounds. After that it's slim pickings until September 4th, when we play the Downtown Plaza with Mahoney and Crustaceans. C'mon! We can caravan! And use walkie-talkies!!
Last month PopCanon and Mike Rotolante piled into Gainesville's best and newest recording studio, The Sound Refinery, and in one giant 30hour session, laid down tracks for SIXTEEN songs! We played 4 new originals (inc. Mina Loy and Ode To A Weasel), 4 covers (X's the Hungry Wolf, Causey Way's Bitch, The Great Big New Ones' War Machine and Clang's Thank You God), and 8 classic original songs (inc. El Gordo, Double Jointed and Penis Envy). We still had 7 songs left over from last year's Kingdom of Idiot Rock sessions, so now we've got 23 songs AGAIN that we'll need to whittle down to CD size. Plainly, we're idiots. Suggestions? A limited CD-EP run? Cassette-only for the fans? A series of 7" singles? Help us!!
Our touring van is DEAD! We're borrowing cars to get up to Atlanta (hey! another reason you should all go--you can drive us!!), but man, WE NEED A NEW VAN! If anyone has any leads, please for the love of Zeus, help us out. We're looking for something in the 15-passenger size (extendo-cab) to carry the six of us and our gear without a trailer.
We're on the radio in Serbia/Yugoslavia! What's that about? The wonderful Slobodan Vujanovic runs internationally reknowned free radio station B92 in his wartorn country, and he's playing three of our songs. The daily paper is even going to write a little piece on us... and here we are bitching about a damn van! Please go check out their website at http://www.opennet.org. and check out this article about their station: http://207.10.94.56/opennet/b92inet.html/radio/H1.html
Finally for today, with the help of our buddy, the incomparable Pose from Tuscaloosa's brilliant PAIN, we wangled our way onto a skapunk compilation CD on Rhino Records of 15 bands playing the songs of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. We drew the song 'Eddie's Teddy', and all we can say about it is--it'll sound like PopCanon doing a song from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. But in a good way! Bari sax, lots o' singing, some upbeats, some frivolity...look for a possible September release. Pain is also on the comp--duh!--playing everyone's favorite 'The Time Warp'. And bytheby, don't miss their show at the Dish Friday 31 July with the Usuals. We'll be there too--in the audience!! But that's another story, for another newsletter.
Finally, the PC MailBot666 (TM) tells me that we have over 200 people on this Rant & Rave mailing list--how did THAT happen?! Mom, quit signing up over and over!!
To the rest of you, as always, thanks for listening.
Ned 'the Missing Spice' Davis
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This is the PopCanon RANT & RAVE #5 for 12 August 1998.
Well, if any of you read the Scene last Friday you saw one of our new publicity photos and an blurb about this week's show. But guess what? The info was wrong! The show this week at the Covered Dish--a benefit for the Civic Media Center and the Friends of Quality Radio--is not Thursday but FRIDAY 14 August. Please note the change and govern yourselves accordingly.
**THE COVERED DISH, FRIDAY 14 AUGUST
The lineup (at press time) is:
10.00pm Dirty Poodle (extraordinary band--don't miss them!)
10.45pm Weeds of Eden
11.45pm The Chairs (Crystal's great band, with our Don and Rob)
12.45am PopCanon
Also, PopCanon Jr.--a semi-acoustic, semi-hornless, semi-quiet but All
Good version of PopCanon--will be picking up a little spare change at the
Tacqueria Quetzalcoatl (on University Avenue, by the Civic Media Center)
Saturday night, 15 August. Come on down, have a burrito the size
of your cat and request your favorite old Semantics song that we never
seem to get around to playing anymore, much to your chagrin...
**TAQUERIA QUETZALCOATL, SATURDAY 15 AUGUST
PopCanon Jr. -- three sets, with a side of salsa
Other upcoming shows:
**THE DOWN LO, SATURDAY 29 AUGUST
with AllStar 69! Grrl power!! KISS rules!!!!
**DOWNTOWN PLAZA, FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER
with Mahoney and Crustaceans
Free show--8pm! More grrl power!!
(KISS continues to rule!!!!)
**COVERED DISH, FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
with Squeaky and Macha
the triumphant return of Squeaky!
**RANTS: As many of you are so very aware, this town is STILL without a good, let alone decent radio station. With the demise of 97X last spring we have seen numerous debates and editorials published in the papers about this situation, including major editorials on ROCK 104 the past two weeks in the Alligator (not to mention Ned's Rant on the PC page at http://web.popcanon.com/97Xdebacle.html).
WHAT CAN WE DO? There is a new group in town called Friends of
Quality Radio (FOQR) who is attempting to:
1) support quality radio
2) start a new station or convert an old one to a format like 97X
3) Promote/support the DJs of the now-defunct 97X
THESE are the people (+the CMC) for whom we're playing the benefit this Friday at the Dish. Please come and support local music, the need for quality radio in Gainesville and the alternative reading room -- Civic Media Center
**RAVE: Be on the lookout for two new compilation discs featuring PopCanon. We have just finished recording a version of 'Eddie's Teddy' for a new compilation of songs from the Rocky Horror Picture Show to be (tentatively) released by Rhino Records.
AND
We are submitting two versions of 'Up the Junction' for a new Squeeze
compilation disc being released by Beloved Productions--one is slow and
pretty, the other fast and 'skacore'... Thanks to Moe for the contact!
Both discs are ska comps but we still stand by the motto 'We are NOT
a ska band!'
We'll let you know when these records are actually coming out.
**Thanks for your all your support love gifts beer food cookies sexual favors help costumes props...keep 'em coming!
-Aly C. the Spice Grrl wannabe
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Good morning, all.
I know, I know, I should have sent this message out in proper PC Rant & Rave format two days ago... what can i tell you? Dude, I flaked! Sorry.
The good news is: PopCanon has a show tomorrow night, Saturday 29 August, with AllStar69 at the DownLo (you know, next to Sooooouuuuullll Train). Of course you wouldn't know about this show from the Alligator or the Scene, but it's true all the same.
You *might* have seen some brilliant flyers around town that the wonderful
AllStar69 have put up. Those flyers include a not-so-subtle hint about
what we hope will be a highlight of tomorrow night's show: a performance
of a classic love song--really, it's THE classic rocknroll power ballad--that
PopCanon will be playing for Foxystar's birthday: that's right,
we'll be playing 'Beth' by America's rockingest band, KISS!!!
Plainly, you don't want to miss this show.
AllStar69 plays first at 11pm, and PopCanon closes the night off in splendor.
In the words of the incomparable Paul Stanley--the StarChild--'How many of you out there like to drink vodka and orange juice? Awwoooo!!'
Ned (who once owned all 4 KISS solo albums)
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This is the PopCanon RANT & RAVE #6 for 2 September 1998.
All right then...
ALLStar69 kicked all of our ass last Saturday at the DownLo, with their
giant afros, smoke and light machines. We did our best to answer
back with a stunning rendition of the one true power ballad: KISS's 'Beth',
sung by our drummer Robby whilst wearing a cat mask--and yes, he did give
out roses to the special ladies in the crowd, Kristen and Deb. We
also worldpremiered a funkyass new song that our own Don Undeen wrote.
Sorry almost all of you missed it.
If you'd like to miss another show--and a free, early one at that--PopCanon
is playing this FRIDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER at
the Downtown Plaza with Mahoney and Crustaceans. Mahoney are
a powerful allgrrl rock band and play at 8pm sharp! Crustaceans are,
you know, Crustaceans--they do it all, and do it last at 10pm. PopCanon
is playing the coveted 'transition' slot: too late for the early folks
out with their families and too early for the rockers out for their Friday
night. Do drop by if you're in the neighborhood.
OTHER UPCOMING SHOWS:
Friday 18 September
PC, Macha and the triumphant return of Squeaky!
The Covered Dish, Gainesville
Saturday 19 September
PC and Squeaky hit the road again--
Sluggo's, Pensacola
And did we mention that we're playing the 6th Annual Alachua Music Harvest? It's true--no times have been announced, but i'm pulling for the slot right before James Brown. Many of our pals will be playing as well: Squeaky, GritKisser, Root Doctors, Amanda Garrigues, NRT, Slack Season, The Usuals, Spike the Cat, the Rails, SuperSugar and so many more. As of press time, the controversial omission of Crustaceans is still unresolved: please call the GAMA office and ask them what gives?
Those of you who remember our marathon fourhour set on the acoustic
stage last year--which culminated in the nearby airport demanding we TURN
IT DOWN, MAN!--I trust are eagerly awaiting the madness that is PopCanon
in the Harvest moonlight.
We'll let you know when we get our slot, but it's certainly sometime
on October 2, 3 or 4.
NEW REVIEW
Hey! Here's a swell review from our German pal Lord Litter who
runs his own TapeDepartment RadioShow across Europe.
http://www.snafu.de/~litter.dittmar
LITTER'S TOP RELEASES early september 1998
PopCanon: The kingdom of idiot rock - CD
Absolutely no idea how to describe this .... very very seldom bands
are able to create a sound that you really can't compare. PopCanon is definitely
such a band ! Creating an own universe of sound the band takes influences
from rock, jazz, comedy, chaos, controlled songwriting, folk ... and much
more. Probably the instruments will give you an idea: 12 string acoustic
guitar, electric guitar, five string fretless bass, lefthanded played drums,
piano, trombone, tuba, cornet, saxophones, violin ... everyone interested
in truly unique music of high quality must get this CD, otherwise you'll
miss one of the best releases I heard from a non-describeable genre !!!
POPCANON, TriTone Management - USA,
e-mail:
[I'm proud that PopCanon's international message of love can confound even the most discriminating EuroListener...]
VAN NEWS
Our hunt for a True Rock Van continues. We have some excellent
prospects but nothing solid yet. Please feel free to buy us a
new 15passenger van anonymously, or at least give us a tip on where
to steal one.
And finally, here's an exchange from Hal Hartley's new movie Henry Fool:
'There are three kinds of THERE, Simon.
There's THERE--"THERE are the donuts"
There's THEIR--"Those are THEIR donuts"
Then there's THEY'RE--"THEY'RE the donut people"'
There's not much more to add to that. Except don't miss the most
brilliant new show on television, MTV's postmodern
puppet show the Super Adventure Team. (10:30pm, Thursday) Oh,
crikey, it's funny. Last week's show featured a 50ft
zombie Abraham Lincoln, still wearing the stovepipe hat.
Ned 'the pointy kitty' Davis
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This is the PopCanon RANT & RAVE #6 for 17 September 1998.
Hey! There's a show tomorrow! With us! And Squeaky! What about...with you?
FRIDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER THE COVERED DISH
POPCANON, DRIP & SQUEAKY
Come tomorrow night and see PopCanon, Drip and Squeaky tear the roof
off the mother as Squeaky unveils their new
17-yr-old drum prodigy, and we reprise our hilarious version of the
KISS klassic 'Beth'... you won't be disappointed.
I think we're playing first, but we might be second...i'll send out
a quick note tomorrow if we are--otherwise be there at 10pm
and you might be the lucky lady who gets the rose.
SATURDAY, 19 SEPTEMBER SLUGGO'S in PENSACOLA
Then Saturday night, jump in your car and gas it up because we're going
to Pensacola with Squeaky to play our favorite club in the panhandle: Sluggo's!
And SERIOUSLY, if any of you are deranged enough to want to come, please
let us know immediately--we STILL don't have a van, so we'll be renting
a car to get up there. If you've got room for, say, the smallish
Don, that would be great! He doesn't eat much and can discourse on
a bewildering array of subjects. This is a real request,
so please contact us immediately.
RAVES:
Well, we're in the Harvest this year, and we didn't even have to call
Marshall 65 times and shake our tiny fists in the air. And we've
got a good slot, too: 9pm on the West Stage. We'll be wearing some
really fine hats expertly styled by our pal Melissa, staff haberdasher.
This year's Harvest scandal (so far) is that our pals Crustaceans were
DENIED a slot this year, the year in which they were voted 'Gainesville's
Favorite Band' at the Hammies! It doesn't make a lot of sense--write
your Congressperson, City Commissioner and local GAMA affiliate and ask
them whassup, G?
AND we'll have a newish CD for sale at the Harvest as well. We've
recorded a few covers some of our favorite local bands: Squeaky's 'Snell',
The Great Big New Ones 'War Machine' (aka Fuck You Fuck You Fuck You, You
Broke My Heart) and The Causey Way's 'Bitch'. We've also written
a song about/for your pals Sister Hazel called 'Give It Up For the Percussionist'.
Plus we're going to throw in our lovesong 'The Curse of Clang'... and
it'll all be in yet another innovative package designed by Don and Alyson.
Look for it at the Hyde & Zeke booth along with our first CD 'The Kingdom
of Idiot Rock' of which we still have a few copies.
Yours In Rock,
Ned
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This is a special PopCanon Rant for 25 September 1998.
We are NOT playing anywhere in town this weekend! Despite what was printed today in Scene magazine, we are NOT playing at Market Street Pub tonight, nor are we playing (as was rumored) at the infamous Baja Beach Club on University Avenue this weekend.
We WERE (I admit) in negotiations with the Baja Beach Club--home of
the Body Shot(TM)--to play on the roof this Friday and Saturday for some
quite nice money, but the day we were to sign the contract this week they
SOLD THE CLUB! So--no
show there. However, do feel free to do a body shot on your spouse
or neighbor this weekend and imagine us playing in the hurricane-force
winds on the roof and refusing for the 14th time to play 'Brown Eyed Girl'...
And imagine our surprise to open up the Scene magazine today and see
our name listed as playing the Market Street Pub tonight. Unfortunately,
the pub never contacted us about this show, so i called the booking woman,
Nina, and had this
quite unusual conversation an hour ago:
NED: Hello, this is Ned from PopCanon. I just opened up my Scene
magazine and saw that we're scheduled
to play your club tonight. Is that true?
NINA: No, you're not playing. That's a mistake.
(long pause)
NED: Could I ask who IS playing?
NINA: OK, look, the Crustaceans were supposed to play but they couldn't
do it, so I got a jazz band to fill in.
NED: That's fine--I just wanted to make sure you weren't expecting
us. We would have been happy to fill in, however.
NINA: OK, I don't think that would work. Aren't you a really
large band, like 7 or 8 pieces?
NED: No, we're a 6piece, and we've played there many times in the past.
NINA: I don't see what that has to do with anything. We're under
new management.
(pause while Ned tries to
figure that remark out)
NED: Well, the ROOM is the same size, isn't it? We've fit in
there just fine before.
NINA: (angry) Are you trying to be funny?
[and she hangs up!]
[after a stunned pause, i call
back]
NED: What just happened? Did you just hang up on me?
NINA: Look, I don't have to deal with this...
NED: Deal with what? I'm just telling you that we've played there
before without any problems, and I'd like to set up another show sometime--
NINA: (interrupting angrily) --I don't have time to deal with arrogant,
'funny' people, and don't worry about trying to set up another show:
YOUR BAND WILL NEVER PLAY HERE AGAIN!
[and she hangs up again!]
So, I guess we won't be playing at the Market Street Pub anytime soon. OR the Baja.
That's all for now. We'll send out a reminder next week about
our Harvest slot (9pm Friday on the West stage), and
the slots of official Bands We Like...plus details about our special
Harvest CD we hope to have ready featuring our
versions of some great songs by other Florida bands.
Ned 'Raged Up Spice' Davis
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This is the PopCanon Rant & Rave #7 for 30 September 1998.
First off, thank you all for your words of support and shared aghastness at the Mkt. St. Pub brewhaha (haha)--apparently this is a recurrent pattern with Nina and the Pub, so there's not much to do but ride it out until they hire a new manager, although repeated phone calls to the Pub asking when PopCanon will be playing next would probably be pretty 'funny'...
HARVEST NEWS
PopCanon is playing FRIDAY NIGHT, 2 October, at 9.00 pm on the West
Stage. We'll be wearing beautiful costumes (thanks Melissa!), playing
a bunch of new songs and selling a special limited-edition EP CD of a bunch
of cover songs of other Florida bands we love: Squeaky, Clang, The Great
Big New Ones and the Causey Way. Plus there's a remixed version of
our own Curse of Clang and a number about Gainesville's own Sister Hazel...plus
all our other merchandise (The Kingdom of Idiot Rock CD, shirts, boxers
and tights with the PC logo, and stickers stickers stickers) at firesale
prices! Come buy!buy!buy!
And as a public service:
AMH 6 SHOWTIMES FOR JUST SOME OF THE BANDS WE LIKE
time band stage
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER
6.00 The Usuals main
6.30 Spike the Cat west
7.15 the Rails west (Ned plays bass for this show)
>>9.00 PopCanon west<<
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
2.15 Root Doctors west (Michael's other band)
3.15 Amanda Garrigues main
4.45 Ay Jorge! acoustic
5.15 Mahoney west
6.00 Squeaky west (give love to the Drum Prodigy!)
6.00 NRT main
10.00 Seraphim west (one of Robby's other bands)
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER
3.00 GritKisser west (one of Donny's other bands)
5.15 Slack Season west
[and of course, every member of PopCanon will be spinning the latest TripHop, Drum 'n' Bass and House sounds each night in the woods--join us!]
OTHER RAVES
Hey, we got a van! It's a 1984 Ford Econoline 150 with a high
top and red velvet interior, named: the Bordello. Our man Phil is
working on it, and it should be ready to conquer the SouthEast any day
now.
And we are proud to announce that we have finally broken the barrier of electronic commerce--last week we sold two CDs over the socalled 'internet' from the creditcard-taking online store CDBaby. If for some reason any of you can't make it to our frequent shows or visit any of the 1/2dozen retail outlets in town that sell our CD, and would like to experience the thrill of sending your creditcard number into the ether, please go to http://www.cdbaby.com and check out the lovely page we have up there.
See you Friday! And Saturday! And Sunday!
Ned 'the funnyman' Davis
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This is the PopCanon Rant & Rave #8 for 7 October 1998.
UPCOMING SHOW:
This Friday, 9 October, at the Covered Dish, with Mower and Dirty Poodle!
(more below)
Hello, everyone.
Thanks to all of you who made it out to our set at the Alachua Music
Harvest Friday night. Sometimes we're a bit overly critical, but
i think the whole band agrees that that show KICKED ASS! The sound
onstage and out front was surprisingly good, the costumes were spectacular
and the band was preternaturally tight. And thanks to our special
guests who were kind enough to sit in: Maceo, don't blow no corn!
Herbie, thanks again--'Labyrinths' has never sounded better! And
Mr. Brown, we'll all be trying to incorporate that split into our jump
during 'Merimble'!
We debuted a new song at Harvest called 'Impossible' in a continuing attempt to live up to our latest band description courtesy of Mr. Howard 'Free Radio Gainesville': 'PopCanon is Advanced Rock!' Thanks, Howie.
We had another debut at the Harvest which is the subject of today's
R&R: our new junior CD is out! Called 'PopCanon Covers It Up',
it's our tribute to several Florida bands that we love and whose songs
we cover on the CD: Squeaky, Clang, The Great Big New Ones (Corey from
Clang's grrlrock band) and the Causey Way. (THANKS again to all these
bands
that let us steal their stuff.) Plus we have a slightly remixed
version of our own 'The Curse of Clang' and a song that went over extremely
well at the Harvest: our 'tribute' to Sister Hazel (who pissed off a lot
of our friends at the Harvest this year with their rockstar antics)--'Give
It Up For The Percussionist' (aka Phish In A Barrel). All this (and
a hidden bonus track) for only $5!!
The handmade packaging alone is worth that!
Which brings us to Friday's show: IF you missed the Harvest set (and
even if you didn't), please join us this Friday night
at the Covered Dish, where we'll be playing all the songs on this new
CD as well as a couple other tribute numbers. We're a last minute
addition to this show (Mower and the fantabulous Dirty Poodle play after
us), so we're playing EARLY: around 10.30. Please don't come at 11.30
and say you just missed us...
It will all be good clean fun, and we'll be selling the CD at the show. It's also available at Hyde & Zeke's, of course, along with our debut CD The Kingdom of Idiot Rock, which you may also purchase (if you haven't already!) at a newly reduced price of $8. In honor of the Kingdom's one year anniversary (it came out at last year's Harvest), we're reducing the price from an already low $10 to a ridiculous $8!! How can you pass up such a bargain? Don't you think you should buy a replacement copy right about now? Although the cardboard is very ecoconscious, it's a little easy to beat up--we admit it. Come to think of it, you also might want to buy TWO copies of the new CD as well, just to be on the safe side...
Finally, it's come to my attention that there still exist SOME people
who are 'online' (as the kids say) yet who DON'T know
about this little newsletter--please, if you know of such a deprived
person, please have them contact us here at PC HQ and we'll get them signed
right up. Thanks.
Ned Davis (with the 3ft. tall Scully-bedecked hat)
PopCanon Minister of Dissonance & Disinformation
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This is the PopCanon Rant & Rave #9 for 29 October 1998.
UPCOMING SHOW:
This Saturday--Halloween--at the BlowHole on University Ave!
We will play from EXACTLY 11pm - midnight, after which a
screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show will commence. Dress
up, play along, blahblahblah...
In the spirit of raising the dead, PopCanon will be playing a set comprised mostly of our older, sillier material--and closing with a couple of singalong numbers from old Rocky Horror itself. Doesn't that sound fun?!
I know lots of you already have Halloween plans and parties to attend,
but really, don't you want to take just ONE HOUR
out of your night to come and dance the Time Warp with us?
In other news, the reception to our latest miniCD--'PopCanon Covers
It Up', our tribute to some Florida bands we love--
has been quite positive. The other bands seem to like it, as
do the people who picked it up at the Harvest. Of course
it's still available at Hyde & Zeke's and at our shows for the
laughably reasonable price of $5. The beautiful handmade
packaging alone is worth that. But you knew that.
And of course, a few copies of our first CD 'The Kingdom of Idiot Rock'
are still available as well, for the newly-reduced
price of $8. Say 'I Love You' this Xmas with the gift that keeps
on giving: PopCanon songs about ourselves, other bands,
books we love and bee attacks...
Finally, we're readying our new van--the Bordello...of Blood!--for some upcoming shows. We'll be driving it to:
*THE COURTHOUSE DELI on Friday the 13th of November
3 sets, all the favorites, filler and nonsensical banter and
*SLUGGO'S in Pensacola on Saturday 16 November.
Do join us if you can.
As always, thanks for keeping your ears open.
Ned 'Not So Much Scary As Unsettling Spice' Davis
'A foursided triangle is what Euclid rides into Hell!'
--from the play 'Einstein and Picasso at the Lapin Agile'
written by Steve Martin (yes, THAT Steve Martin).
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A big PopCanon SORRY for 2 November 1998
A big PopCanon SORRY to anyone who tried to come out to the BlowHole on Halloween night--the bar owner shut the place down for the night and cancelled our show. (i know, shades of the Baja Beach Club...apparently now WE carry the Curse of Clang with us.)
However, we figured most of you had many, many other plans for that night, so it probably worked out fine, but if any of you were inconvenienced, again--we apologize.
We WILL be playing at the Courthouse Deli on Friday the 13th of November (homecoming weekend). Do come out to that. We're going to play all the goofy songs we WOULD have played at the BlowHole, and so many more. And special guest on the drums that night will be our old pal Squeaky Steve Bottom. So look for a very ill-advised cover of Squeaky's magnificent 'Horsehead Nebula' that night...
The November 14th show at Sluggo's has been CANCELLED--we may instead play a benefit for Free Radio Gainesville at the Covered Dish, but we'll let you know about that next week.
thanks, and happy halloween or something...
Ned 'the dejected spice' Davis
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This is the PopCanon Rant & Rave #10 for 11 November 1998.
It's a birthday week for PopCanon: cheers from all of us to Robby and Dave--in honor of your birthdays, both of you get to skip a show this weekend...
UPCOMING SHOWS:
FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER -- THE COURTHOUSE DELI
This Friday, we're playing at the Courthouse Deli in downtown Gainesville.
It's an outside gig, weather permitting, so bring a sweater and prepare
to hear all of your old favorites, some swell new songs, and some old songs
that we never play except when we have to fill three sets. Filling
in for the absent Robby will be our old pal Squeaky Steve Bottom, master
of the 'brickem'... Show starts at 10 pm and is but $4 -- it's a perfect
way to round out your UF Homecoming festivities.
SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER -- THE COVERED DISH
Then the next night, PopCanon (sans Dave) will play a benefit for our
pals Free Radio Gainesville and the Civic Media Center at the Covered Dish,
along with what the press release calls a 'buttload' of other local bands:
Slack Season, Jared & Devin from Noah's Red Tattoo, Rumbleseat (with
members of Hot Water Music & the sadly ex-Crustaceans), Mahoney, Cavenline
and Keith Welsh. Come out and support this worthy cause! Doors
at 8 pm, show is all ages. Admission is on a sliding scale from $5
- $10. Info: 352-377-3334. PopCanon will play around 11.30
pm.
As the holidays sink in, PopCanon will be taking things a bit easy,
working on the new van, contemplating more recording
and eating candy...we'll keep you informed of anything fun or exciting
coming up.
See you this weekend.
Ned 'the Spice Boy formerly known as the Spice Boy' Davis
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