What a small small world we live in...

Hey! I just put up the interview I did last week with the Merriweather Deer, check it out on our "Print Interviews" page or click: THIS. If you haven't seen the band play, you'd better get on to it! The Merriweather Deer are on tonight at The Fringe Club at 10:30. This is the first print interview I've done in a long long while, to be honest, I really enjoy doing them, and might revert back to print for a while.

Being in HK really reinfoces how small of a world we really live in. It turns out that the Brian, the guitarist from Outbreak, who was previously in Gravemaker,  was in HK for a few days earlier this week. Completely psyched me out- he was at The Merriweather Deer show! I'd first met the guy in Toronto 2 years ago, when he was still playing in Gravemaker, at the show where I did the interview with Aaron Bedard. Someone had mentioned to me that he'd grown up in HK, I was pretty stoked, I mean first show in Toronto, and I'm already meeting someone who'd lived in HK. And... it turns out he lived here for 13 years! Insane! So Brian and Vivian and I chilled a couple of days ago, checked out the Dragon Boat Races, and ate some Ramen-- fun times!  Check out Brian's band Outbreak at http://www.myspace.com/outbreak

-Becky

The Merriweather Deer

Really excited to see the Merriweather Deer play tonight at the Frindge Club, even more excited to get to interview them as well! Think I'm going to do this one in print rather than as a video, especially since for now since Sadie and I are across the world- it's a bit tricky to keep the camera on the people you are interviewing, while trying to read off of a question sheet. Plus, I haven't done much print in a while, and I do miss it!

http://www.myspace.com/themerriweatherdeer

Oh and I realise I haven't said anything about the Bane show...
MAN it was AMAZING. I can't even begin to describe it... except that the HK hardcore/ underground/ whatever you want to call it scene really came together! I hope that more shows are like that in the future.

Got to chill with the guys in Bane for a while after... they really are the nicest guys ever. I think getting to talk to them made me begin to understand the "youth" that really goes with, and is such an essential mainstay of hardcore. I only hope that by the time I reach their age, that I am as free and full of life and excitement as the guys in Bane are.

Hopefully throughout the summer I'll catch up a bit more with the HK scene, since I've really fallen quite out of sync with it. Hoping to make a quick trip somewhere else as well, so maybe will have the chance to check out some other bands.

Since getting a "real" job and starting my summer class things have been pretty busy-- and I really have not been focusing as much as I hoped I would earlier. I am really going to try my hardest however, to update this blog as much as I can!! Also really hoping to upload podcasted versions of a few of the radio shows that we managed to Salvage off of the Fusionradio computer-- a WHOLE bunch of our shows got mysteriously deleted however. If anyone knows anything about podcasting, let me know! I really have no clue as to what I am supposed to do! =\

- Becky