Ramblin' Ambassdors w/ James T Kirks & The Ostrich

» Thursday July 26 «
Ramblin' Ambassdors
w/ James T Kirks & The Ostrich

There is happy news to report from the Broken City maintenance department. Our leaky ceiling is now fixed, with no thanks to The Ostrich who totally tore the roof off the sucka with their insane show last time they graced our stage. Apparently, they've added a keyboard/miscellaneous insanity player to the fray. Can one of Calgary's best bands in years get better? I'm just glad the roofers double-reinforced the ceiling. Speaking of rock and roll maelstroms, The James T. Kirks are for all intents and purposes, the Hanson Brothers of instrumental music. With bloodshot eyes and extra-large panties wrapped around the headstocks of their guitars, these lovable Edmonton low-lifes have eluded the cops, creditors and white supremacists (ask Ted about that one!) while all the time thundering out monster jam after monster jam for years now. Catch this rare Calgary show from these cats.

Who will be on my guestlist tonight?
The first to write me at johnhuh@shaw.ca will be on my guest list for this rockin' show.
Because we all can't fit on Prince's Island Park tonight.

Woof woof woof

AHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

» Thursday July 19 «

» Thursday July 19 «
Cody The Catch
w/ Guy Woods / Jeff Spec / Eydol and DJ Butta

The night may belong to mixtape legend DJ Butta but Western Canada’s going to warm ‘em up. Guy Woods from Sooke BC, Jeff Spec from East Van and Calgary boys Cody the Catch and Eydol will show you why Calgary truly is becoming a haven for underground hip hop.

DJ Butta may be one of the bigger names in DJing to come through town in awhile. A Miami heavyweight and NYC mover; if DJ Butta isn’t a household name now, he soon will be. DJ Butta has gone from selling custom tapes at school in Miami in the early 90’s to being named one of the top five DJs in the scene by Def Jam Records. Expect cuts from just released Volume 5 Makaveli 7 Deadly Sins series as well as Volume 18 of his highly acclaimed hip-hop series, which includes appearances from Jadakiss, Jim Jones of Dipset, and Peedi Crakk of State Property.

Sooo, who wants to be on my guest list?
Leave comment stating why you should be on my guest list, and maybe you will be.
Don't be a suckuh!

Love,
John Huh
BCSC Bookong Assistant/Promoter

Rockabilly Hall of Famer Art Adams and Ronnie Hayward

» Friday July 13 «
Rockabilly Hall of Famer Art Adams
w/ Ronnie Hayward

What happens when you have a de facto, first generation rockabilly artist playing in the middle of the Stampede with one of the best contemporary practitioners and true keepers of the flame of the genre? If you answered a street-sweeping, goofy-footed, piston-screaming, knock'em down party, you'd be right. If you miss this show of shows, feel free to kick yourself over it.

If any of you greasers are reading this: Please be advised that the first two of you to leave a comment AND email me (booking@brokencity.ca) will be on my guest list +1. Offer expires Friday, July 13, 2007 @ 17:00hr
OR feel free to kick yourself twice.

Some conditions may apply.
Not valid in Alaska, Nebraska or the maritimes.
Brush your teeth!!

Thanks for listening,
John Huh
BCSC Booking Assistant/Promoter

Okay, stop reading. Leave a comment and then e-mail me!!
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Are you still here?

Over the Bush and Through the Hills: Benefit for Breast Cancer Research

Congratulations Christine Berger, on being eligible for the 60km walk for Cancer Research!!
Hooray!!

Over the Bush and Through the Hills: Benefit for Breast Cancer Research was a huge success!

Ask for these quality do gooders by name!:
Agnostic Mountain Choir
Burlesque Collective (Rebecca)
Hurricane Felix and the Southern Twisters
Burlesque Collective (Carissa)
Darcy Whiteside and the Hillbilly Jamboree
DJ Jenn B

Extra special cudos to Enzo for borrowing a CD player from the Underground and saving the Burlesque portions of the night.
The evening would not have been the same without the Burlesque Collective. God bless those sexy do gooders.

Extra double scoop thanks to all of you who came and filled the Broken City with phun and good times to celebrate this hopeful and worthy cause. Thank you for your generosity of wealth and spirit. Where have you been all my life?

I hope we can do it all again some day.
Walk Christine, walk like the wind...

Thanks for the mammaries, etc...

Peace,
John Huh
Booking Assistant/Promoter

Kieran Hebden of Four Tet and Steve Reid

Dear Citzens,

How's it going?

Kieran Hebden of Four Tet and Steve Reid weave a sonic tapestry of rhythm and electronic threads. Brought together by an English music Promoter as musical experiment, these two had such a great time, they just stayed playing together and now are on tour.

It was really great to see all you sophisticated cats out to see this very unusual Monday show. Although we could have fit more of you, the room was nicely full for this dynamic duo. It was a pleasure to host these musical giants, and I hope to see them again someday.

Remember this blurb from the Broken City Social Club Writing Collective? It is all true:
Musical history comes crashing down in a monumental swell with Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden and legendary jazz drummer Steve Reid.
Broken City audiences may be more familiar with the name Kieran Hebden; the man behind folktronica group Four Tet, the post rock collective Fridge and the much sought after remix master for Radiohead, Bloc Party, Aphex Twin, Bonobo and Madvillain.
His latest collaboration is possibly his most mind blowing and though most may not know his name, drummer Steve Reid is the closest Calgary may ever come to James Brown again. Having gotten his start in 1964 at the age of nineteen playing drums for Martha Reeves & the Vandellas' on 'Dancing In The Street', Reid laid down an amazing career with numerous Motown sessions and lengthy tenures with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti and James Brown.
Context aside, the night will likely be nothing Broken City has ever seen or heard. A little backbeat, a little downbeat all wrapped up in a mind melting free jazz odyssey.- There will be a $20.00 cover for this event.

Thank you Steve Fletcher, KLM for setting us up with the drum kit with the jazz cymbals.

Please have a Skookum day.

Peace,
John Huh
Booking Assistant, BCSC

Sled Island to Solid Gold Beaver

Dear Citizens,

How's it going eh?

It is an amazing string of great musical acts coming through the Broken City.
Thank you Sled Island for bringing all those great bands and much thanks to all the bands: Curtis Santiago, Racoon, The Petites, Consonant C, Lions, Tigers and Bears, Sudden Infant Dance Syndrome, Bigfoot Rocketship, The Ostrich, The Adam Brown, Jay Crocker and the Electric Apes. Sled Island is a raging success! Extra special thanks to Johanna Schwartz, Sled Island Volunteer Coordinator, and all of you do gooder volunteers, because this festival or any festival could not run without the hard work and dilligence of volunteers. Thank you Zak for having a dream!

We owe much thanks also to the bands who played at Solid Gold Beaver Canada Day Celebration. Special thanks to Amy Darling, Mistress of Ceremonies (SGB), who hosted the whole day. I suspect we will be seeing more of Amy Darling, and her costume changes, and observational comic stylings. ALSO: If you missed the BCSC staff band: SNOW AXE, you better have been having sex instead, because sex is pretty much the only substitute for SNOW AXE!! I'll tell you what! All of the bands kicked ass with classic Canadian songs.

All proceeds donated to the Calgary Emergency Women's Shelter.

The night went something like this:
6:00 - Kenna Burima with Daren Powell and January Glass
6:20 - It's Rocketaco
7:40 - Mercury Audio
8:00 - Black Hole
8:20 - Ricca Razor Sharp
8:40 - Tall Mark and Handsome
9:00 - Hardcore Cardboard
9:20 - Fallout Frequency
9:40 - Bogart
10:00 - INTERMISSION
10:40 - LINT
11:00 - Lucid 44 to Hell
11:20 - Snow Axe (BCSC Staff band: Solange McAlister, Adam Kamis, Steve Richter, John Huh, Jen Skabar)
11:40 - Patroller
12:00 - Gaye Rage
12:20 - MFO
12:40 - Life Like Cobra
1:00 - Kenna Burima with Daren Powell and January Glass
1:20 - Unscheduled Blues exporation jam

Check the Broken City Calendar for upcoming bands: www.brokencity.ca/calendar.html

And that's Rock and Roll.

Peace,
John Huh
Booking Assistant/Promoter/Lover
Broken City Social Club

This Monday! NO COVER

» Monday June 11 «
Wax Mannequin
w/ The World Provider
& Jenny Omnichord

It’s going to be one weird Monday. It’s the night for “outsiders” with cheeky Casio keyboards, lofty omnichords and bizarre on-stage antics. The evening begins with wacky multi-instrumentalist Jenny Omnichord; the solo side-project of 22 year-old Jenny Mitchell of Guelph’s favourite indie band The Barmitzvah Brothers. The last time I saw an omnichord on the Broken City stage was when BossHoss brought the house down with Britney Spears’ “Toxic”. Missed that show? For god sakes people! It was a Monday! Who doesn’t love Mondays?
Things just keep on getting stranger with the cheeky electro-synth pop sounds of The World Provider. What started out as a one-man band in Toronto has now blossomed into a Fully-Loaded-Casio-Rock-Band whose love affair with the soft rock melodies of Hall & Oates, Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac has created some of the most entertaining and infectious kitschy house-beats this side of the 80’s. Wax Mannequin needs no introduction really. Bizarre, alluring, grandiose, primordial psych-pop all delivered with dangerous on stage antics. Full band or solo his own programmed beats, automated bass and angry electric guitar, Wax Mannequin is a force to be reckoned with. Audience beware.

(PJ and Dan) + (Party and Coyoteman) = dance

Sled Island

Sled Island: June 27, 28, 29
Multi venue
Legions of Indie musicians from across the contintent!

Keep an eye on the Broken City website calendar of events for updates.

Please feel free to leave a comment.

Thanks,
John Huh

No Cover Mondays

Mondays are the new Wednesdays.
Wednesdays are the new Fridays.
Thursdays are the new Fridays.
Fridays are the new Saturdays.
Saturdays are still Saturdays at Broken City.
And you have two. Count them. Two Fridays.
And almost forgot......Two Saturdays.
Stay with me now.
Which means that Tuesdays are the new Sundays.
And Sundays are the new Tuesdays.

Come to Broken City on No Cover Mondays.
live band classic DJs PJ and Dan
Because Monday only comes once a week.