{"id":4616,"date":"2012-10-30T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T21:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2012-10-30T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T21:30:53","slug":"local-live-and-loud-october-31-november-13-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/10\/30\/local-live-and-loud-october-31-november-13-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Local, Live, and Loud<\/em>: October 31 – November 13, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, October 31
\n<\/strong>Alcoholic White Trash, Endprogram, Fuquored
\n<\/em><\/strong>Logan\u2019s Pub, $10, 9 pm
\n<\/strong>Anyone remember Punky Brewster? Soleil Moon Frye? Was that her name? I\u2019m pretty sure she was in that Sabrina, The Teenage Witch<\/em> sitcom as well. I often wonder about the whole child-star thing. I mean, you get all this attention at such a young age. A lot of these kids seem to have so many issues. She seemed to turn out okay, though. Definitely not alcoholic white trash, as far as I can tell.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, October 31
\n<\/strong>Plants and Animals
\n<\/em><\/strong>Lucky Bar, $20, 9 pm
\n<\/strong>I love recycling, don\u2019t get me wrong. I would love to save the world. Sure, the ice caps are melting and the ozone is disappearing, but we\u2019ve all got to do our part to help out. Take Plants and Animals, for example. Not only are they a band but they\u2019re bringing eco-knowledge to the masses every time one of their songs is played. \u201cReduce, reuse, go to Lucky Bar.\u201d That should be on the poster.<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 1
\n<\/strong>Aidan Knight, Andy Shauf
\n<\/em><\/strong>Alix Goolden Hall, $18, 7:30 pm
\n<\/strong>There\u2019s almost a neverending supply of great local talent on this island we call home. Even if some of the styles aren\u2019t your cup of tea, there\u2019s no denying the quality of the craftsmanship from some of the bands on Vancouver Island. The soothing, dreamy sounds that will emanate from the Alix Goolden Hall when Aidan Knight and the Friendly Friends play might put you to sleep, or they might ease a tired mind. That\u2019s up to you to decide. I just get to tell you about it.<\/p>\n

Friday, November 2
\n<\/strong>Madchild, DJ Dow Jones, Ghost, Pyoot
\n<\/em><\/strong>Club 90ne9, $20, 8 pm
\n<\/strong>Imagine being one of those lucky bastards that had the foresight to buy stock in Apple back in the day. I don\u2019t even know what that\u2019s worth these days. Seriously, I don\u2019t. I wish I knew how to play the stock market. I\u2019d be buying low and selling high all over the place. If only I had a rhyme to throw in here, something to impress all the homies that are heading to this show chugging Monsters to get hyped. BattleAxe Warriors, come out and plaaaaaaayyyyyy.<\/p>\n

Sunday, November 4
\n<\/strong>Martin Taylor, Solorazaf, Guinga and Brian Gore
\n<\/em><\/strong>UVic Farquhar Auditorium, $15-$30, 8 pm
\n<\/strong>I\u2019ve told you guys how hard it is to play guitar before, haven\u2019t I? Oh, sure, some of you are like, \u201cNo, it\u2019s not. I\u2019m awesome at guitar.\u201d Shut up. No, you\u2019re not. These four guys sure as hell are, though. I\u2019m not talking like ripping electric guitar kinda awesome. These guys play acoustic guitar the way you wish you could if you practiced 20 hours a day, six days a week. Six days a week, you ask? Why not seven? Because on Sunday we watch football.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 6
\n<\/strong>Spectrum Community School Bands
\n<\/em><\/strong>Spectrum Old Gym, admission by donation, 7 pm
\n<\/strong>I played the flute for about four or five years when I was little. I wanted to play something sexier, like the drums, or even the saxophone, but my dad wanted something softer. He was pretty smart. You can only play the flute terribly up to a certain volume. I quit band soon after I started skateboarding. I just wish Beastie Boys had released \u201cFlute Loop\u201d a little sooner. I probably would have stuck it out. Jazz flute is pretty sweet.<\/p>\n

Friday, November 9
\n<\/strong>Metric, Stars
\n<\/em><\/strong>Save-on-Foods Memorial Arena, $29.50-$45, 7 pm
\n<\/strong>Guys love Metric. Or maybe guys just love blondes. Still too much of a generalization? How about guys love to watch strong, impassioned lead singers do high leg kicks while rocking their socks off? The first time I saw Metric years ago I looked out over the crowd from my vantage point beside the stage and I realized that it was mostly men. Dumbfounded men, in awe of the spectacle they were experiencing. It made me smile that night, much like I\u2019m smiling at this very moment.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 13
\n<\/strong>Wintersleep, Elliott Brood
\n<\/em><\/strong>Alix Goolden Hall, $26, 7 pm
\n<\/strong>I grew up in the Yukon. In the summer you can watch the sun hide behind a mountain for half an hour, then creep back out again. It doesn\u2019t get dark. The winter, however, is an altogether different beast. You wake up in the morning, it\u2019s dark. You go to school, it\u2019s still dark. You get out of school, it\u2019s brighter than when you came in, but only for an hour or so. Then it\u2019s dark. My mom got cabin fever the first winter we spent up there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, October 31 Alcoholic White Trash, Endprogram, Fuquored Logan\u2019s Pub, $10, 9 pm Anyone remember Punky Brewster? Soleil Moon Frye? Was that her name? I\u2019m pretty sure she was in that Sabrina, The Teenage Witch sitcom as well. I often wonder about the whole child-star thing. I mean, you get all this attention at such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-issue","category-october-31-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4620,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}