Willie Nile, the Carleton, joel plaskett emergency

WILLIE NILE meets the EMERGENCY, again. For the third year running NY based rocker extraordinaire,Willie Nile ( One Guitar, Vagabond Moon, The House of a Thousand Guitars) returns to Halifax and Mike Campbell and Mike Rhodes', Carleton Bar and Grill, for a night of Backstreet running and gunning. And again, Chris and Dave, The Emergency, will back him up, with our pal Jay Smith ruling the axe. It's always been one of the highlights of the season, baby.
 Below is a post from Willie's first visit and my jet lagged jump straight from the airport into rock and roll cruise control.
Dave
 
pS. Willie's been doing Nowhere With You in his shows sometimes and looks like Joel will be up for a tune ce soir, Also, young punks Gloryhound, soon to be found all over the new True Love Rules album , will rock out a few they've been working on with the Jewel of the Nile himself.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Willie Nile played the Carleton in Halifax last night and he was flippin' amazing . Great songwriter . I know because we made it to the show ; straight from the 7 am lobby call in Surrey to the 8 pm arrival at Stanfield International . Wasn't a whole lot left in the gas tank after the weekend and a great show at the Surrey festival but Willie summoned the reserve out of us with two highly entertaining sets . Bit of rockin' guitar , bit of piano , whole lotta talent , it was fab . Nice work from Robbie Crowell too . Big props to Mike Campbell for his inspired booking . http://www.willienile.com/main.html

My April Wine Riot

Busted ! Here's an article on the anniversary ( 32 years...Jeez zus ) of the Halifax/Dartmouth April Wine Cross Harbour Ferry Melt Down Riot. Twas not my first brush-cut with John Law... but a very rock and roll one; the usual stuff... Rock and Roll show, poor planning, poor judgement, paddy wagons, nite in jail, meet yer brother inside...y'know, everything 16 was cracked up to be.

Granville St. Vancouver

Granville St., Vancouver

We lucked out with a good Mexican place just down the street from the gig at the Vogue Theatre. Here, on the stroll back, we stopped at a light and the natural light was just right for a mugging.

Laura Merriman

Here's a great new song by my friend Laura Merriman and her band ,The Hard Tickets, produced by Brian Murray. We'll be playing together at her cd release in June at the Carleton in Halifax.

Joel's New Wheels

Joel bought a wicked Japanese German car. It's now on a train, heading to Nova Scotia...where the rust licks everyone's lips.

More Scrappyhappiness- Simply Chris

Simply Chris.

Scrappy Tour-ists out west

The Elk in natural habitat

Scrappy scrapes out west.

Victoria

Rockies

Steve 'Snickers' Smith

Matt