New Music Revue: October 2, 2013 issueBosma Pirates and Kings (independent) 3/5 This is the seventh album that prolific local musician David Bosma has played on. It’s the fifth solo disc for Bosma, who has also spent time in Victoria bands Seven Year Old Poets, the Poppies, the Wildeggs, and the Splinterz. When it’s working, the album has a fresh sound […] Continue Reading |
Belfry’s production of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) does the Bard justiceIf you’ve ever had the desire to see people in tights fervently raising the battle cry of “Bullshit! Bullshit!” in front of a sold-out Victoria audience, then I suggest you go see The Belfry Theatre’s production of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Canadian playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald brings Shakespeare’s most famous characters into collision with the […] Continue Reading |
Review: Victoria’s Great Canadian Beer Festival delivers a hoppy yearIt started off a bit gloomy with clouds, but the sun came out to whet beer-drinkers’ appetites at the 21st Great Canadian Beer Festival on September 6–7. Though the soggy turf at the festival site of Royal Athletic Park didn’t dry out, it was a small price to pay for the pleasure of drinking beer […] Continue Reading |
Rifflandia: Victoria music festival in picturesThe sixth annual Rifflandia Music Festival recently took place in Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park, as well as a host of local clubs. Nexus‘ managing editor and grizzled music festival veteran Jason Schreurs was there to capture some of the action in pictures and words. […] Continue Reading |
Celtic Thunder defy cohesion, please Victoria crowd anywayI’m completely puzzled as to why people would shell out so much money for a show like this, Celtic Thunder at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre here in Victoria (the $75 seats were all full). Not that the musicians were bad; they were all talented enough. But all I could think about was that a Celtic-themed […] Continue Reading |
A play-by-play review of Bumbershoot Music Festival 2013: Seattle’s Labour Day weekend cultural gemAs an avid music festival attendee, and a second-time Bumbershoot-goer, I decided the best way to recap the three-day music and arts festival in Seattle was to give you a play-by-play review of all of the wonderful things that I happened to take in at Seattle Centre over the Labour Day long weekend (just because […] Continue Reading |
Steve Bays brings Hot Hot Heat back to Victoria for RifflandiaSteve Bays will be one busy and excitable guy come September 13 and 14, when he pulls double duty playing in two different bands on the main stage during the Rifflandia music festival. But this is really nothing new. After all, Bays is always busy, and always excitable, whether it be playing music or working […] Continue Reading |
UVic alumni Sam Dunn finds success with movies and television, tries hand with crowdfundingWhen filmmaker, University of Victoria anthropology grad, and lifelong heavy metal fan Sam Dunn sat down with executives from VH1 to pitch his Metal Evolution television show idea, he must have done a good job. They bought it. (Considering Dunn had the strength of popular documentaries Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey and Global Metal behind him, […] Continue Reading |
Integrate Fest exposes art to VictoriaMany people think of art galleries as sterile places, full of things that you’re not allowed to touch made by dead people. Not very fun; but not very true either. One of the major aims of the Integrate Arts Festival is to remind people that artists actually live here in Victoria and they are creating […] Continue Reading |
Bumbershoot festival a true Seattle arts experienceAsking a festival programmer what they are looking forward to the most for their upcoming festival is like asking a parent who their favourite child is. Bumbershoot programming director Chris Porter answers that question the only way he can: by rattling off as many children as he can think of. “I’m psyched about who we […] Continue Reading |
