Apologue Podcast

This will the first of two interviews I did with Spike.  Spike is originally from a band call the Swingin Utters.  He then formed a supergroup with Fat Mike (NOFX), Chris Shiflett (Foo Fighters), Joey Cape and Dave Raun (Lagwagon).  Over the past year, Spike has been working with a new band named ‘Uke-Hunt’.  He’s been touring around and we sit down over a video chat from Las Veg...

Dennis Jagard is the guitar player/Lead Vocalist in ‘Ten Foot Pole’ as well as a sound man for artists like Prince and Jimmy Eat World to name a few. Dennis and I met when our bands shared a tour bus in Europe for 30 days in 2004.  We became fast friends when we both realized that we were band dads in nature and shared the same ethics regarding music. Brought to you by  fetchclass.com...

Kyle and I  recorded our monthly live podcast.. We had some questionable internet and some brief pauses because of internet issues.. Bit the show went on!! We talked about stuff and all the stuff that goes with it!! This version of the podcast is really an experiment about conversation and how two people can start with no real pre conceived notion of how the show will go and just riff Hint:  It ge...

Hugo and I met for the first time at the Bovine the day we recorded this episode of the podcast.   Hugo is an intricate part of the Montreal music scene and plays in many many bands.  He also one day decided to start his own festival with a partner and has successfully built a really cool reason to travel to Quebec.  In this episode we talk briefly about the scene in Montreal and the DIY ethic of...

Mike Cado is an educator, session guitar player and a performer that has live his whole life playing and perfecting the guitar.  Mike started playing in clubs at a very early age thanks to his brother that would get him into licensed venues to jam.  Mike teaches guitar at York University under the banner of the Music Department. In this episode, we talk about being a dad, music and the music busin...

Fire in the radio is my new favourite band!!. They are on tour in May with Knapsack and also playing Pouzza fest in Montreal.  I met up with Richard and we talk a bit about the songs on the album, how he writes songs and how the band all chips in together to make it all happen.  They are on Wednesday Records and have big plans and a bright future!! Thanks for the conversation Richard, we’ll...

Bob Wiseman is a talented song writer/ keyboard player.  He moved from Winnipeg to Toronto in the early 80’s to attend university learning improvisational piano.  Around the same time, Bob joined Blue Rodeo, a highly respected band from Toronto that won Junos [Canadian Grammys] and sold hundreds of thousands of albums.  The cult classic ‘Outskirts’ has tons of Bob&...

Originally aired live on April 20th 2015. Tune in to the second instalment of or live to web show that Kyle and I will be doing on a monthly basis. Kyle and I go way back into the late nineties.  up until a month ago, we haven’t talked for over 5 years. So we have some catching up to do!!  Sit back and relax.. enjoy the show!! Thanks as always to the awesome support that the podcast is getti...

Apart from having a confusing to spell last name, Dan is a documentarian.  He travels all over the place filming things and has a blast doing it!! We talked all about his other endeavours like owning half of a record label, playing music, working a day job and being a dad.  It seems as though the days are not long enough for my friend Dan!! We really just scratched the surface so Dan will be back...

Thom and I go back about 18 years.  I recorded his first album with one of his first bands called ‘the Carnations’.  We’ve been good friends ever since.  Thom has always been into making music and can pretty much write any type of song you want.  When Thom joined the band ‘All Systems Go’ [John Kastner and Mark Arnold], He wrote about 8 songs that fit perfectly with t...

Orsi and Alex both are professional musicians that play in the GTA consistently as part of a group called ‘Wellington Music’.  This ensemble  plays in many configurations.  ‘Guitar Guys’ is a new project that Alex and Orsi and a guitar player [not present for the interview, otherwise I would know his name] are teamed up and ready to make popular hit music and give it a clas...

The real McKenzies are a band known for having a good time.. Even though there’s been over 100 members in the band!! Paul McKenzie started the band way back in 1992.  The band taps into keltic music and blends it with punk rock.  Always something to say, we speak a bit about their new album ‘Rats in the Burlap’ (Released on Stomp Records in Canada and Fat Wreck-Chords everywhere...

Kyle and I go way back.  We first met when his band at the time ‘Closet Monster’ came to record at my studio in the late 90’s.  He also came into the studio with his other band ‘Claptrap’.  Kyle was the first drummer in my band [Four Square] we played some shows in Ajax Ontario when we were called ‘Doug’.  Kyle and I spoke at length about how we met, the m...

Stuart Cameron is a professional guitar player based in Toronto Ontario. Stuart comes from Canadian folk royalty.  His dad was John Allan Cameron, a folk hero that paved the way of many Canadian musicians to come.  We talk a bit about music and his dad.  Modern music and songwriting in Nashville.  We also talk about his band ‘The Heartbroken’ and life as a freelance musician in Canada....

Hey World, Meet Kieran Strange!! Kieran is originally from Portsmouth England and moved to Canada at the age of 17. After living in Edmonton AB for a while, she then moved to Vancouver which she now calls home.  She just landed a deal with Porterhouse records in the USA and is releasing her new album this spring.  Kieran is working with Steve Kravac (Blink 182, Bad Religion) a legendary producer w...

Will moved to Canada in 1984 from Dublin Ireland as a teenager.  Living in Oshawa, Will noticed at a young age that his town was missing an identity and a culture.  It’s been his quest in life to bring Durham region into a different view as a hotspot for art and creativity, not just as a suburb of Toronto.  Will has been a writer for his whole life and we talk about life and what we’ve...

Brent Belke started his music career playing in the seminal band SNFU in early 1980’s.  Brent toured, wrote and released a few records before SNFU broke up for a brief period in the late 80’s.  SNFU got back together again the early 90’s and released a few more albums on Epitaph records (Offspring, Bad Religion).  Brent quit SNFU and went back to school to which he received a deg...

Colin and I met back in the late 90’s.  I recorded one of his early bands called Marilyn’s Vitamins.  He Also Played in a few other bands.  One being ‘Hostage Life’.  Hostage Life had the most success for Colin, but his love for the booze eventually broke that band up.  Another band (The Victim Party) and a broken marriage later, Colin was lost.  He struggled for years with...

Punchline 13 are a band based in Montreal.  All the members of the band come from various other bands from back in the mid to late 90’s.  This Podcast is different then all the other ones.. We listen to new songs from the forthcoming album ‘Cut The Rope’ you can order the album on iTunes and Amazon Today today!! Listen and enjoy!! Brought to you by  fetchclass.com  and  BOUGHT.96...

Carmelo lives in Germany.  We met back in 2010 when my band needed a label.  Carmelo ran Antstreet records back then.. the label was named after the street he lived on.  Antstreet was basically a one man show. In this Podcast we talk a bit about Germany, the industry and life as we know it.  We talk about television shows.  we laugh. Thanks Carmelo for being on the show Brought to you by  fetchcla...

Ivan played hockey professionally for the rangers in 1955-1960 when there was only 6 teams in the NHL. . In this interview, we learn about what hockey was really about.. Not about the money or the fame, but for the love of the game.. Ivan ‘the terrible’ lets us into his life and love of a game, the game of hockey!! Enjoy!! Brought to you by  fetchclass.com  and  BOUGHT.96.lt Shop with ...

Doug McClement has been the goto guy for large broadcasts here in Canada and abroad.. He worked on the Sochi Olympics and is responsible for broadcasting the Junos and Much Music video awards.  His resume is really really long. Toured with 50 cent, worked with the Rolling Stones..recorded several records for Blue Rodeo (see episode 6 with Cleave Anderson).  The list goes on and on!!  go to  http:/...

I give you Pez.  Or Mark Pezzelato. Mark and I met under a weird strange circumstance and we talk a little about that.  Mark is a man of many trades.  He’s a singer, song writer, studio owner, recording engineer, producer, multi instrumentalist.. And  he’s into meditation.   This is what our main focus of the conversation went.. We talked about how through meditation, one can gain a gr...

Boys Night Out is a Band Based out of Burlington Ontario.  They formed in 2001 and in under two years were touring all over North America opening for well known bands like Fallout Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, My Chemical Romance and Panic at the Disco.  Cult bands all of them.  Some of them turned into very popular bands. Boys Night Out released the fan and critics choice album Train Wreck  that e...

Cleave Anderson is one the busiest gigging drummers here in Toronto.  He’s in tons of bands and has played in tons of great well known bands like ‘Battered Wives’ and ‘Blue Rodeo’.  I met up with Cleave in his home and we talked at length about his life and punk upbringings as well as his need for stability and balance in life.  I think he’s achieved the closest...