If ya'll don't know what the Westword is, well it's a local rag here in Denver, they cover verious shite like food, music, local politics and other shite. Not sure hwo else to explain it, but it's a good rag if ya wanna find a good show happening here in town. Austin has the Cronicle, we have the Westword.  so, enjoy the finer points of not getting an "Atta Boy" at the WMA's.
Cheers



Hey Westword, I'm the singer for local band Lyin Bitch & The Restraining Orders and I was emailing this to ya'll in regards to the Westword Music Awards Ceremony in which we won best punk band award, but by some oversight weren't there to get the award. My question is why we weren't invited to accept the award at the Bluebird? Or is that a redundant question, I mean, one reason to have an awards deal is to recognize a person or persons on excellence in a certain field.
We definitely   deserve the hell outta the best punk band award since we've been busting our asses to achieve the level we have for the past 5 years. And for so many years, the Westword has settled for hamburger and Steel Reserve and now finally want USDA prime beef and champagne, cheers to that. See, I think what happened is that Googling our name in order to send us an ivitation via email was to damned hard. Or could it be that the uptight and humorless Bluebird manager Ann "swinging from Peter Ore's nutsack " Hack had a whole lot to do with not being invited?? Let me give you a LBRO history lesson we were banned from the Bluebird Theater during the Peter Ore reign and once he jumped ship to work for the competition, we were once again welcome through the Bluebird's doors to open for Agent Orange. Well, we took the stage and I started my diatribe of how nice it was that Peter was gone and called him a son of a bitch because he's kept so many bands back in this town because if he didn't like a band than they never had a chance to play at any NIPP shows. On top of that. I did curse him, but it was with rectal rash & colon cancer. So, being the professional that she is, had us banned from the Bluebird. Below I'll send the in-house memo that she sent to the NIPP office, it's really funny. Also, being a humorless cow, she is very short sided with us and very unprofessional as a promoter. Hell, ask her about the Dwarves asking us to play their show in August and her refusal to let play with them. Short story long, I believe that she is the very root of why we were not invited the The awards ceremony. In closing , if I am wrong about, I will apologize for my accusations.
XOXO, Jim AKA Shank Whitey


Yeah, got an email back from Mr. D. Herrera aboot my email to Westword. seems there was an oversight and my panties were in a bunch, but Ann Hack is still a slag!!! Here's what he wrote me.
No conspiracy here, Jim. It was merely an oversight on our part. When I
initially spoke with Wenzel to book you guys for the Showcase, I didn't
get an e-mail address from him to contact you guys. So when I turned
over the contact info to our marketing folks, your info wasn't included.
As a result, when the invites to the VIP party (which were the only
invites sent out) went out, you weren't included in that distro. I did
send out numerous reminders about the awards via MySpace, but from the
sounds of it, you didn't receive those, either. Anyhow, please accept
our sincere apologies. We, of course, would've loved to have you on hand
to accept the award. If you have any other questions, let me know.
Otherwise, again, very sorry for the oversight.

Cheers,
-- dh