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Mark Bignell


Last Updated: 12/25/2009

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Status: Swinger
Age: 97
Sign: Aquarius

City: Couverville
State: British Columbia
Country: CA

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Saturday, November 14, 2009 

Current mood:  creative
Category: Music
The podcast of this week's bandcouver show and past shows from the last 2 months, available on the archive page at http://www.coopradio.org

Click in the date ( this week Nov. 12, 2009 )
and the hours between approx. 14:30 and 16:00
It keeps changing on the archive page...!14:40...14:45....don't know why.
Co-op's engineer doesn't either.


Before we get to the show this week, I have to mention how disappointed I am to learn that businesses and former businesses located on the southwest side of Main Street, burned to the ground this week.
   
It's such a waste.
It could have been an accident...or it could have been set on purpose.

Vancouver is tending to get too "condo happy" lately, and yet another ugly slab of these soulless, bland and non-communal blocks is down right depressing.

Contact your mayor to put to your ideas across that the Main street area needs to retain a community-friendly block instead of another slab of condos from a faceless corporation.

Now... this week's show had a visit from Nikola from the Reggae/Ska/Rock tinged group Capade.
Nikola's was a good enough guest and he comes across as a decent, genuine person.   
Capade does  have solid musicians ,but, I find their music can ,unfortunately, be rather bland. 

Just a little constructive advice.
I think they need to toughen up their music. Get a little dirt on it.
There should be a little less concern with being commercially-viable, and little more emphasis on creating a more unique slant with the music.
Perhaps, with time, this will surface in their music.

It's not terrible music. Just not terribly unique. 
But, I thought we'd have him on the show, get some more new music on the air, and see what people think. 
Let us know at bandcouver@yahoo.ca
 
I did find a few tunes I liked and aired:

Don't Say it Might Mean Something

It's About Time

Break The Habit 


(((  The Rest Of What Fit Into 90 Minutes This November 12 of 2009:  )))

Yesterday's Tomorrow-Parlour Steps

Sold Out Of Love/ Fuck Dirt City-The Secretaries

Tough Love-Bend Sinister

Desous les Paves la Plage-Corbin Murdoch & The Nautical Miles

Bye Bye Marie-The British Columbians

Willie Dixon Goddamn-Bocephus King

Everything & Everyone-Wax Mannequin

Racing Form For Lily-Minimalist Jug Band

Danza Dai Fontazma-Los Hombres

Vagabond-Shad with Hey Ocean!

This Terror-The Pack AD

Nico Canoe-Yukon Blonde

Everybody's Wrong-Rick Parnell

Black Rainbow-St. Vincent

Hey Mama-Analog Bell Service 
   
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Friday, November 06, 2009 

Current mood:  chipper
Category: Life
Music, Lifestyle and pants optional views are discussed with Parlour Steps' Caleb Stull on this Thursday, November 5th, 2009 episode.....and lots of music to break up the insistant chatter. hee hee.

Visit http://www.coopradio.org to hear the podcast.
Go to the archives.
Click in the date and type in the hours ( its on the 24 hour clock between 14:45 and 16:00...It changes all the time. Don't know why ) 

Tunes coming out of your radio this week of November 5, 2009:

Turpentine-The Manvils

Lord Help Me Focus-Rat Silo

Twist Of Fate-Combine The Victorious

Will This Last-Way to Go Einstein

Accord Meneaur-Wintermitts

Whiter, Straighter-Adeline

*Yesterday's Tomorrow-Caleb Stuff of Parlour Steps

*Sleeping City-Caleb Stull of Parlour Steps

*Little Pieces-Caleb Stull of Parlour Steps

*Cluttered-Parlour Steps

Islowmania-The Racoons

Impact is Imminent-Fuzzcat

Glamorama-Blank Cinema

Kenny-Big Cookie

Wandering Time-Corbin Murdoch & The Nautical Miles

Maybe One Day-Lost Hombre

No Heaven-Champion

Mama Told Me-Mother ( Mother )

Highway Patrol-Rolla Olak

Solarists-New Sound

.....That's It For Now.....Whoo-hoo-hoo-ha-ha!


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Friday, October 30, 2009 

Current mood:  exhausted
Category: Music
If you weren't able to take out, re-new or upgrade your Radio Bandcouver/Co-op membership, you can still do so by calling 604-684-8494 or online from http://www.coopradio.org.

Be sure to mention your support's going to Radio Bandcouver.

Thanks for your continued support.

What We Were Able To Cram In During the Fall Member Drive
This Thursday, October 28, 2009
 with guests Quentin from sister DJ's Radio Band
and Micheal and Richard from Waltz Darling.


Vampire Hookers-Showbusiness Giants

Pumpkin On My Sleeve-Sister DJ's Radio Band

Reality Is A Ride On The Bus-SNFU

Yesterday's Tomorrow-Parlour Steps

Meaningless Meeting-Adeline

Safe & Sound-Familia

Brave New World-Run the Red Light

Wolf-Nash the Slash

All this Is-Mia Moth

Just a Dream-Fuzzcat

Uniforms-SSRI's

Slackjaw-Waltz Darling

Circle-Waltz Darling

My True Love-Waltz Darling

Tamlynn's Dizzle-Ilana Cameron

Angry Sea-Mother Mother
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Sunday, October 25, 2009 

Category: Music
What Made It To Air This Fine Thursday, October 22 of 2009:

Kenny-Big Cookie

Runaway Bride-Joel Battle

Sick Of All The Good Times-Ford Pier

The Pasture-Copilots

Mananimous-Rich Hope

You Crazy Gal You-The Nervous Fellas

Don't Touch that Dial-Paper Lions

Wayfaring Stranger-Blackberry Wood

Battle Of The Buffalo-Buffalo Swans

Helmet-Circus In Flames

Through The Broken City-Bend Sinister

Chemical Spill-Adeline

Old Man Lori-Headwater

Vampire Hookers-Showbusiness Giant

Grow Up & Blow Away-Metric

Sleep Awake-Mother Mother

Soft Lies-Parlour Steps

Techno Wizard-SSRI's

Sold Out For Love/ Fuck Dirt City-The Secretaries


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Monday, October 19, 2009 

Current mood:  blissful
After seeing fabulous shows with Danny Echo, The British Columbians, The Manvils, Wintermitts, Analog Bell Service, David P. Smith, Dark Blue World and doing sound for a very impressive, authentic musical project from El Salvador in Kerrisdale...the playlist has finally arrived.

The Songs Bandcouver Endures This Week of Thursday, October 15, 2009

Given Up Giving Up-Danny Echo

Madame Guillotine-The Manvils

Bye Bye Marie-The British Columbians

Midnight Breakout-Analog Bell Service

1-2-3-Castle Music

State of Mind-Adeline

Tracking The Detectives-Dark Blue World

What A World-Herald Nix

Worst Job-David P. Smith

Juliana-Bend Sinister

Zebra Zebra Bravo-Man Your Horse

Time Ate The Garden-The SSRI's

Golden Arm-The Bughouse 5

A Chord Mineur-Wintermitts

Kiss The World-Catlow

Christ was A Cowboy-Circus In Flames

Cluttered-Parlour Steps

There You Be For Another Week....

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Friday, October 09, 2009 
The usual frustrations with the quality local/independent music from Vancouver being overlooked.
There is more to us than Black Mountain this, Pink Mountaintops that.

Sometimes you just have to shout "People! Open Your Eyes & Ears!"
"There Are OTHER fantastic bands from Vancouver as well!"

The Other Fantastic Bands We Played today: October 8, 2009:

Circus In Flames-Freak Show

Debra Jean-Manic Depression

Fuzzcat-Just A Dream

Bend Sinister-Tough Love

Dark Blue World-On A Wire

Aural Heather-How To Remain

Catlow-The Forest Of Love & Sin

Wintermitts-Mer De L'atlantic

Analog Bell Service-Left the Park

The Manvils-Hollow Hands

 Parlour Steps-Bleeding Hearts

XTC-Earn Enough For Us

Wax Mannequin-Small Living things

St Vincent-Marrow

Bocephus King-Willie Dixon Goddamn

David P. Smith-Holy Pies

The Fugitives-Music

Mark Berube-Bottle & Ticket

Minimalist Jug Band-Nobody's Telling It

Ya see. There's a lot more to Vancouver than just the collectives of one band.

Da End. 
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Friday, October 02, 2009 
Arseniy's fine with not having a live in studio guest every week ,but, maybe if we can have the number of tunes they perform fine tuned to 4 requested tunes at the most, he'd be more into it.
We'll see.

Now...What We Played on this First Day of October 2009

Analog Bell Service-There She Goes

The SSRI's-Hubris

Jessica Beach-Doctor Said

Headwater-Old Man Lori

You Say Party, We Say Die-He She You Me They we Us Okay

Fake Shark, Real Zombie-What the Fuck

Minimalist Jug Band-Reyjavik

Parlour Steps-Soft Lies

1-2-3-Mary Castle

Danny Echo is in with his acoustic guitar to play a couple of favourites.
Mark can't help but crank the echo on danny. hee hee hee

Danny Echo-Barely Getting By

Danny Echo-Given Up Giving Up

Brundlefly-Today

Rat Silo-Lord Help Me Focus Tonight

Kick Everything-Fun!

The Manvils-For a Few Dollars More

Adeline-Broken Glass

The Who-A Quick One While He's Away

Wax Mannequin-Glass Empty

and so the first Bandcouver show with a live guest in ages.
We may make it a regular occurance again....or not...hahahahahahaha
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Friday, September 25, 2009 

Current mood:  argumentative
Category: Music
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Bandcouver.
The show that plays independent acts of independent mind.
Playing bands we like to play, not bands we think we should play. 
Podcast link on this site's homepage.


Parlour Steps-Ring That Bell

Parlour Steps-Yesterday's Tomorrow

Analog Bell Service-Old Composer

Dan Mangan-The Indie Queens Are Waiting

Blackberry Wood-Going for Number 1

The Pack AD-This Terror

The Dreadnoughts-Ivanhoe

The SSRI's-Parade

Thee Manipulators-Ooga Booga Man

Dark Blue World-Demimonde

Jessica Beach-Doctor Said

Headwater-My Old Friend

Wax Mannequin-Grown Ups Never Lie

Shad-Angel

Adeline-Meaningless Meeting

St. Vincent-Human Racing

Jasper Sloan Yip-Blue Jar Waltz

Mother Mother-Legs Away

Petunia-Come On Down The Show Tonight

Minimalist Jug Band-Racing form For Lily

Blank Cinema-Glamorama



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Saturday, September 19, 2009 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Music
A couple of the songs we played in the last set were a bit odd ,but, we felt the need to play something different. The Peak and Shore will never play the odder tunes anyway. hahahaha

Playlist September 17, 2009:

Thee Manipulators-Minor League Fame

The B-lines-Social Retard

The Stags-Out Of Our Tree

The Reverberators-El Perro Loco

The Modelos-Somewhere West

Parlour Steps-Little Pieces

Parlour Steps-Miraculous

Circus In Flames-A Little Bit Of Gasoline

Marnie Mains-Liquid Nurse

Mother Mother-Dirty Town

Hey Ocean with Shad-Vagabond

Bend Sinister-Hell Or Shelter

The Pack AD-Bang!

Minimalist Jug Band-Go Boy

Brasstronaunt-Fan

Bombay Laughing Club-Embarrassed By Prayer

Bobby & Katie-But Why?

Book Of Lists-Troy

Bonkers!-Molly Mushroom

The British Columbians-Bye Bye Marie

Da End.....

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 

Current mood:Questioning
Category: Music
I can't help but feel disgust at the ever-increasing dumbing down of music by the corporate moguls.
The 'Idol' shows are the biggest annoyance of all.
It makes the general public feel anybody has unlimited talent and can consider themselves an artist or even worse a future star.

The market gets flooded with a bunch of mediocre acts and the music striving to be more original, authentic and daring is being left behind.
There should be room for the later as well.

It can get to the point where people don't have any real appreciation of music.
It becomes more like collecting stamps than actually experiencing joy in something that could enrich your life. This appreciation is in short supply these days.
The power brokers of what's left of the big labels, radio, tv etc are the main cause of this.

This dissmissive additude towards music that strives to find its own voice downgrades music and makes actual musicians feel they are of much less value to society than say construction workers, doctors or record executives.

As Ringo Starr once said: "If radio and the music business was anything like it is now in the 60's, you would have never heard The Beatles."

There are some real music fans in Vancouver ,but, it's a small audience.
To me, a real music fan will appreciate a good local band as much as do an already famous one.
There should be no difference between the 2. Good music is good music whether it sells a million or a dozen.
A real music fan will start exploring when the big time music industry isn't producing the kind of music to  excite, challenge or ,at the very least, satisfy the listener's experience.

But it sure doesn't seem like many do just that in "Metro" Vancouver.
The so-called cosmopolitan, world class city.

The blandness of the suburbs and mall culture is matched with the blandness of mainstream music, movie and TV culture.
 
Vancouver, on a mass scale, seems to have to be told what to think is good,
and think only an act or artist who has become famous or gets signed or respected elsewhere is worth listening to.

The recent Canadian Country Music Awards ceremony is a prime example of back-slapping for following a blatant, bland formula.

What gets me is the fact that longtime, truly innovative acts likes Carolyn Mark, Neko Case, Bocephus King, Circus In Flames and many exciting acts in the local music scene, ( unfortunately relegated to Vancouver 'proper' for the most part ), are ignored as if they don't exist.

Where has any taste in music gone?
I see nothing to be proud of when Canadian acts follow a tired, blatant formula and are treated like they're geniuses, while acts making worthwhile, innovative music are shunned and/or ignored.

Vancouver and Canada need to grow up.
This is embarrassing. I'm not proud of same-sounding, assembly-line sludge.

I guess what we were taught in school by the better teachers about being our own person, questioning things we feel aren't right, and thinking for ourselves were values that aren't relevant in a crass, corporate world forever bent on making everything predictable and bland, and making mediocre acts famous, ignorant and arrogant.

Bandcouver doesn't share this same mindset.
That's why it's still relevant in getting deserving music out there.
Sure the 2 new stations ( The Peak and The Shore ) are better than the others ,but, there's still huge gaps when it comes to more independent music.

Especially the kind that doesn't fit into a neat little slot.
I try to understand the mainstream industry ,but, find the music so insulting and full of posers, I soon lose interest again. 
Music shouldn't be placed in a straight-jacket, made to conform for a bunch of non-music fans who would be much better at being lawyers, real estate agents or shoe sellers then telling me what music I should listen to.

If they were truly music fans, there wouldn't be this bland sameness to the music heard by the mass audience.

Give music back to the music fans.

 Now...The Semi-Accurate Playlist of Bandcouver's Thursday, September 9, 2009
Broadcast:


Parlour Steps-Sleeping City

Adeline-Broken Glass

Arctic-You Coming Down-Version 2

Fuzzcat-Bomb Ass Head Beat

Petunia-Cowboy Waltz

Minimalist Jug Band-Scarf

Mother Mother-Hayloft

Hannah Georgas-All I Want

Wax Mannequin-Pieces Of Bird

Bend Sinister-Through The Broken City

Beth Southwell-Something you Said

Aural Heather-Appleton

Ford Pier-Kill The Intolerant

Hey Ocean-Fish

Circus In Flames-Sittin' In A Darkened Room

St Vincent-The Strangers

The End..for now..
 
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