Mano A Mano Interviews

HEAD IN A BOX

Who: Mason Tikl (also has a project called Striatum)
Extra: I go Mano A Mano with Mason to chat about the recording process of Head in a Box during a pandemic. He also gives me a bit of a lesson about a Baritone 8 guitar complete with live performance!

ZUFFALO

Who: Kim Manning, Mikey Vukovich, Sean Steele, Eric VanierNew Album: Birdbrain

Extra: I go Mano A Mano with the members of Zuffalo to chat about their recording process during a pandemic and the creation of their newest album "Birdbrain".

TODD KERNS

Bands: The Age of Electric, Static in Stereo, Sin City Sinners, Todd Kerns (solo), Slash and the Conspirators, minefield, Togue

Guitar: TK has his own custom guitar and bass guitar. TK plays bass for one of the best guitarists ever, no not Gary Cain, SLASH!

Extra: BC Hall of Fame, Juno Nomination, "Remote Control" was on the Diamond selling "Big Shiny Tunes 2" compilation album.

CHRIS ADENEY

Bands: Wax Mannequin

Guitar: Often performs as a solo act almost entirely on an acoustic and/or classical guitar. The Wizard of finger picking & other stuff he talks about that I don't fully understand but pretend to.

Extra: He used to perform with a lit candle on his head!

GARY CAIN

Bands: The Gary Cain Band

Guitar: Possibly the fastest guitar player I have ever seen! Don't get too close to the stage otherwise you might suffer from first degree burns. I cant really tell you what he is good at because he plays so fast I cant see what he is doing.

Extra: Originally from KW!

JOSEPH ANDREOLI

Bands: Giraffes? Giraffes!

Guitar: King of Looper pedals.

Extra: Most tracks are recorded in such a way that they can reproduce the same sound with looping live. It is crazy to believe that all the sounds happening in these songs can be created by only two people.

JUSTIN SMALL

Bands: Do Make Say Think, Lullabye Arkestra

Guitar: Guitar symphony, Guitar ambience

Extra: Juno award winner. If you ever wanted to listen to a symphony of music on rock instruments Do Make Say Think is the band for you.

54-40

Who: Neil Osborne (vocals/guitar) & Brad Merritt (bass)

Extra: Brad and Neil join DJ AdRock and I in studio for over an hour talking about all things 54-40. We get into some fan questions and do a feature band about Neil's daughter Kandle Osborne's new album.

Cyanide Kiss

Who: Matt Kras (vocals/keys) & Mike Cattanache (vocals/cow bell)

Extra: Matt and Mike chat for a bit about some new Cyanide Kiss that might surface. We play one of these new unreleased tracks and the rest of the band swings by to perform acoustically a few classics.

Paul Jago

Bands: The Gandharvas, Said Dog, Balls Deluxe, and more!

Extra: I sit down with Paul Jago for an hour before a legendary "Unearthing the Gandharvas" performance in Kitchener to talk about all things Gandharvas and scratch the surface on new projects.

Poor Young Things

Why: To blame it on the good times

Extra: Poor Young things join DJ AdRock and I in studio to answer questions and perform some of their super catchy songs live acoustically over the FM airwaves.

In My Coma

Why: So that nobody is losing sleep....or I guess so that everyone listening is losing sleep.

Extra: In My Coma join us in the studio for a chat about recording, performing and a nice Love-To-Air performance.

Podcast coming soon

Pick A Piper

Who: Brad Weber, Angus Fraser, Dan Roberts

Extra: Pick a Piper join us in studio the night that their debut album is dropping! We chat for a while and then rock out to the tracks that we have at our disposal.

Organ Thieves

Who: Chuck Coles (vocals/guitar) & Dave Baksh (guitar)

Extra: Two members of Organ thieves join us in studio to chat new album, leaving SUM 41 and starting new, the music machine AND some acoustic live performances.

Dirty Ghosts

Who: Allyson Baker (guitars/vocals)

Extra: We figured out how to connect all the stuff and had our first phoner with Allyson Baker of Dirty Ghosts before driving down to TO to check our here band and her debut album!