Apologue Podcast

Will McGuirk is a journalist, a TV host, a writer and now a book shop manager. Will Never stops and his ambition and enthusiasm is inspiring. After leaving his job at the Toronto Star, Will found greener pastures in my home town of Uxbridge for work. Oshawa has always been Will’s home, but there’s a sense of optimism here in Uxbridge. Even for a book store in a small town that’s...

Connor Lovat-Fraser is the lead singer of Boys Night Out. Connor has a new band named “Pale Drone” and they are in the beginnings of releasing a two song 7″ and cassette. Pale Drone is a heavy departure to other projects he’s been involved in lately. Look out for new, cool music from Pale Drone! Twitter(s):  @ clovatfraser     @ PaleDroneBand   @ bnoboysnightout Brought to...

Greg Bolton is a returning guest on the show. Apart from being a project manager with an AV consulting company, he’s a top notch dad and person! Greg and I are in a new band together. Watch out for our killer band at a corporate event near you! We just had our first show today and I’m exhausted so I’ll keep this short. listen into our conversation in which we get deep into the ph...

Michael Beinhorn is a music producer that has worked with bands like The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Hole and tons more. He’s the type of producer that is into collaboration over meeting his personal agenda. Michael is offering a service that works as a pre-production service to musicians, a crucial part of the recording process that gets overlooked. We talk about the record industry...

Simon Clemo is a Lighting/Video content designer that has actively worked in the industry for many, many years. Starting off as a sound engineer, Simon has proven that if you want to succeed in the Canadian entertainment industry, you need to diversify. Simon also inspired me to branch out with what little knowledge in tech I had some 10 years ago to learn as much as I could to use every aspect le...

Justin Small is the cofounder of Toronto’s “Do Make Say Think”. After years of touring and recording, DMST won two Juno Awards with their latest release “Stubborn Persistent Illusions”. Justin is one of my oldest, dearest friends from the 90’s. We has another great conversation on his back porch equal to episode 37  when we first met up 3 years ago. A class act...

Alistair Hepburn is employed with ACTRA Toronto. ACTRA is a union of film, television and new media workers and advocates fair and equal work for all in the entertainment industry. Alistair has also worked as a production manager in theatre companies around Toronto as well as York University which is where I met him. It was great to catch up with Alistair to get his insight to what theatre is and...

Carmelo Lo Porto is a musicians manager and record label owner based out of Saarbrucken Germany. Carmelo was responsible for two Four Square releases in 2010 and 2012. “Dial Nine for a Line” and “A day… a Decade” are available on iTunes. Carmelo has always seen the bright side of the music industry and is always looking to re-invent the business. Every time I speak wi...

Howard Ungerleider got his start in the early 70’s as a tour manager for Rush. His primary job was to teach the three 20 something year olds the proper way to tour in the USA. Howard actually wasn’t much older than Rush when he started with them. After proving his chops as a competent lighting person, Howard spent the next 40 years changing rock & roll lighting artistically and tec...

Welcome to episode #190!. John Hiebert is a production manager with the Calgary folk fest. But before that, John was the lead singer and guitar player for Calgary’s “Field day” and a staple in the Calgary punk rock scene. John and I first met in the early 90’s when out two bands played together. John has always been a good soul and a great ambassador for punk and indie musi...

Ceilings are a three-piece, Punk Rock band who are based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  The band has recently come together with Little Rocket Records to release their new E.P. “Wake Up and Start Again”.The band features members from Elder Abuse, Locked In and Nice Cops. Ceilings are: Trevor Buckley – Vocals / Guitar Josh Buors – Bass / Vocals Sean Kaye – Drums The E.P. showcases three...

Real Sickies are a band based out of Edmonton Alberta. The band honours the true sounds of The Ramones, Teenage Head and great bands of the mid to late 70’s. Good time rock and roll! I met the band while they were on a tour west to Vancouver opening for Sub Humans. Great songs and a great band from a great city! FaceBook:  https://www.facebook.com/therealsickies/ Twitter:  https://twitter.co...

Welcome to Part 2. Three Chords… One Capo was released under Sweden’s Bad Taste Records, Imperial records from Japan and Maple Music in Canada (a subsidiary of Universal Music). This was the first time we as musicians had to deal with the importance of releasing our first, real album and how to work with people who were professionals in their own right. We had yet begun to take ourselv...

It was 15 years ago when my band Four Square started recording this album Three Chords… One capo in a rehearsal space in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. My studio was known for recording on location and getting pretty good results. This album was a scary project because it was what I thought to be the real deal. People we didn’t know were investing money into this little band from Canada...

Michael Barclay is the author of the book “The Never-Ending Present: the Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip”. The Book is stories told by friends and peers that encompasses what it means to be Canadian and how different we really are from the rest of the world. The book was released in April 2018 and you can buy it on Amazon and where any cool books are sold. In the podcast we...

Paul Delong has been playing drums in bands for over 40 years and has played with some pretty amazing people and bands. Paul played drums on three Kim Mitchell Albums but also has played in many other disciplines like funk, jazz and blues. Not a lot of people can say they’ve played in bands to make a life and career from 40 years of playing. Paul is presently playing in Rik Emmetts band as w...

Tom Anselmi is the lead singer of the Eighties punk rock band “Slow”. The Band released a few albums before their break up. one of those releases is the EP “Against the Glass” for which Chart Magazine credits it to be #17 of beast Canadian Albums of all time. After breaking up in 1987 Tom went on to form the band “Copyright” which were eventually signed and drop...

Brad Manners is the lead singer and song writer of Toronto’s own “School Damage”. School Damage has been a band for a bunch of years now. Brad and I talked mostly about the scene in Toronto and his observations. We also talked about Europe and the best parts of flying 6000kms and leaving the Toronto scene for that brief period. School damage is releasing a new album in the Summer...

Duncan Morgan is the Manager, Technical Production at the Habourfront Centre in Toronto Ontario. Duncan got his start in theatre as an actor and slowly got into the technical aspect of theatre. He’s been everything under the sun in theatre from basic crew member to production coordinator. Duncan has been in theatre his whole life and allot of parallels coincide with the music business. Dunca...

Doug Grozelle sang in the band “Trunk”. I had the privilege of recording and producing one of their albums  back in the day . Doug has always been a stand up guy in the scene as well as in person. We spoke on the podcast for the first time in almost 20 years and it was like old times from the word go!. Trunk has played a few reunion shows since their break up and Doug explains what the...

Nick Harper, Greg and Brent Lee from the Alpacas came on the show to talk about the industry, life as a musician and the joy of song writing. They released the album “the Best is Behind You” in October of 2016 and are presently working on a new album. This band has the feeling of “the Get up Kids” and “Gaslight Anthem” while creating a sound that’s unique...

Dan Nystedt is a film maker and documentation. He’s been making movies from his home town of Sault ste Marie, Ontario for over ten years now. Dan has managed to carve out a career from an area in Canada that twenty years ago wouldn’t be considered. We live in a world where you can work almost anywhere if there’s an internet connection. Dan makes music videos as well and has filme...

Returning to the show is Dr Oren Amitay. Oren is a registered psychologist and a parenting expert. Oren was just released from the hospital after going through open heart surgery. On the podcast we spoke about life in general. It was nice to talk and Oren as always is a great guest. Brought to you by http://www.betterhelp.com/apologue Affordable, private online counselling anytime, anywhere Shop w...

Brain Wahlstrom started Gods Of Mount Olympus with an aggressive piano and catchy melodies. A punked out Billy Joel if you will. Brian is an accomplished opera singer as well. He has a broad concept of music and brings all of it to GOMO. The band features Steve Morris (Unwritten Law) and Matt Riddle (No Use for a Name) on guitar and bass respectively. Their new album is out on Bird Attack records...

Seth Richard is a singer/ song writer and founding member of Layden and the Lion. The band is named after his two kids and is his main form of income. This means that he has to be on tour for over 200 days of the year to support his family. It’s a hard life and I have so much respect for Seth and his art. I caught up with Seth while he was travelling north to Montreal to start a Canadian tou...