Apologue Podcast

Aaron Thomas is the Canadian Ambassador for Sailor Jerry. What does this mean you ask? Well Aaron is basically the good fun, push the brand, buy you a drink at the bar kind of guy. He’s also into helping charities with the Sailor Jerry brand in any way he can. Aaron grew up about 15 minutes from where I grew up and we talked a bit about how that affected our upbringing. We did the interview...

Billy Skelly also goes by the name King rock Photo. As a photographer, Billy has been compiling tons and tons of photos of bands he’s a fan of. The pictures are to be part of a book he’s trying to release named “From the Pit”. Billy is a quarter of the way to his $20,000 goal and needs your support by going to  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingrock/from-the-pit any...

Son of Dave is a singer, song writer that plays harmonica. He uses a looping machine to create amazing once in a lifetime experiences. Son of Dave lives in the UK but grew up in Winnipeg playing in the Canadian band “Crash Test Dummies”. Son of Dave always made and released his own music. If you have watched AMC’s “The Preacher” he wrote the theme song. He’s als...

This podcast was recorded on a road trip from a show in northern Ontario. We were heading home and the conversation was pretty fun, so I whipped out the phone and started recording. Justin, Greg and Curtis are all part of the Small Town Pistols group. Justin and Cutis play in the Band and Greg is our guitar tech. These three guys also played in Tyler Wilkinson’s group “Motion Picture E...

Mina Shum is a writer and director that’s been in the movie industry for well over 20 years. Mina found her voice in the early 80’s with punk rock and photography. Her first break through movie was “Double Happiness” that stared Sandra Oh in one of her first roles.  Mina’s latest effort is “Ninth Floor”, a documentary about how students in Montreal protest...

Welcome to Part 2!!! Darryl Hurs is the founder of two pretty important Toronto events. One is Indie Week, the other is Real Independent Film Festival or RIFF. Darryl came to Toronto in the early 90’s to seek fame with his band from Edmonton. He soon realized that his ambition wasn’t exactly the bands main concern. Darryl taught himself graphic design from reading books before owning a...

Darryl Hurs is the founder of two pretty important Toronto events. One is Indie Week, the other is Real Independent Film Festival or RIFF. Darryl came to Toronto in the early 90’s to seek fame with his band from Edmonton. He soon realized that his ambition wasn’t exactly the bands main concern. Darryl taught himself graphic design from reading books before owning a real computer and so...

The Dearly Bereft are a band based out of Toronto Ontario. A family tragedy began the writing process that eventually turned into “Funeral Music”, their first LP. TDB play allot in the GTA and will hopefully find a town close to you in the near future. This band is the rare mix of great musical talent and insight, gifted networking skills as well as a learned knowledge in social media....

Lee McCormack is a fellow podcaster and a musician based in Pickering Ontario. He writes and performs music around the southern Ontario area and teaches in his spare time. Lee started his podcast out of the love of Bruce Springsteen’s music. He’s been using this common thread to meet people with the same passion for Bruce. His show is awesome and you can find it on iTunes or www.tramps...

Welcome to episode 90!!. Steve Beauchesne started Beaus all Natural Brewing with his dad almost ten years ago and grew the business to one of the larger craft brewing company in Ontario if not Canada. Steve used his punk rock ethics and upbringing to create a company with a strong sense of community and family. Steve also started “Audio Visceral” to quench the need to make music with o...

Connor Lovat-Fraser is the lead singer and lyricist for “Boys Night Out”. Boys Night Out is a band from the surrounding areas of Burlington and Hamilton. The band formed in the early 2000’s, a time when the record industry was fractured. The music industry then was dealing with how to repair the damage from illegal downloading with its bloated staff count and slow reaction time t...

Tim Oxford is the drummer in the band “Arkells” though originally from Newmarket Ontario, Tim joined the Hamilton based band ten years ago. “Arkells” won a Juno award in 2010 for new group of the year and won their second Juno last year for rock album of the year. Both critically acclaimed and adored by fans everywhere, Arkells have really stepped up the game with their new...

Will McGuirk is a writer and journalist. Will has been the man that is responsible for documenting punk rock and indy music history in Oshawa for over 25 years through fanzines and now professional mediums like magazines and news print. In this episode we drove around Oshawa starting with his first home in the south end and ended up at the Mustache Club at King and Simcoe. If you are from Oshawa,...

Brock Pytel is the original member of Canadian power-pop rockers “the Doughboys”. Brian Minato is known to play with several bands and artists like Sarah McLachlan and Luke Doucet. Shockk is from the band Tiger Prawn and Shane Wilson played drums in Jack Tripper. Together they started “SLIP~ons”, a pop power band with Husker Du and Replacements under-tones. In the podcast,...

Ben Rispin is a musician, artist, promoter and a pillar to the Hamilton Ontario independent music scene. Ben is the lead singer in a new project called “Rules” with Chuck Coles, Adam Michael and Alex Standen. Everyone in the band is from other bands that have touring schedules and record deals. Ben always is up to something and is always trying new things. some things work, some fail....

A different kind of podcast this week. This week is a double episode wrapped into one. Darryl Fine is the co-founder and owner of Toronto’s own “Bovine Sex Club” and Kj Jansen is the founder, guitarist and lead singer of Calgary’s “Chixdiggit”. Both of them are celebrating a 25th year anniversary. In the podcast we talk about the early beginnings of bar ownershi...

Tyler Wilkinson found fame at a young age when his dad formed family band “The Wilkinsons”. At the age of 9, Tyler was up on stage in the eastern regions of Ontario breaking hearts and taking numbers! By the age of 14, Tyler was on tour busses and hanging with his contemporaries of the late 90’s country music scene. He was walking red carpets and receiving rewards for his efforts...

Brian Doherty is the founder and guitar player in the band “Big Wreck”. Brian started his music journey learning the trumpet and soon moved over to guitar playing in local bands. After high school, Brian went to the prestigious Berklee college of music and soon formed “Big Wreck” with Ian Thornley. While most of the band is from America, “Big Wreck” charted high...

Steven Rawles started the band “Belvedere” in Calgary Alberta in the mid-nineties and never stopped making albums until present day. Whether it was with “Belvedere”, “This is a Standoff” or his solo acoustic album, he never really stopped touring. “Belvedere” is one of Canada’s greatest exports when it comes to melodic punk rock. They took a br...

Welcome to episode 80!! Rude van Steenes is a singer in the band “Arson”. “Arson” started in the late 70’s when Rude first met guitarist Marcel La Fleur by chance on the street. The band has been playing live in the Toronto punk scene in several different incarnations with a long break in the middle. Rude has been playing in bands since the early 70’s. Starting...

Stephen Egerton is the guitar player in the bands “ALL” and “Descendents”. Stephen got his start in music when he joined “Descendents” in the late 1980’s and toured constantly for several years day in a day out. He recorded some great albums like “Batch” and “Type Thing” by “Big Drill Car” with fellow band mate Bill Stev...

Michael Wojewoda is a record producer that worked on albums like “Bare Naked Ladies” “Gordon” and almost every “Rheostatics” album. Most notably “Melville” and “Whale Music”. Michael is an artist as well and has now entered into the field of making documentaries. Never short on conversation, we spoke about music and the people in it. A gr...

Amanda Wilkinson was one third of the grammy nominated family band “the Wilkinsons”. Amanda and “the Wilkinsons” hit stardom with their single “26 Cents”, the song that allowed them the privilege of meeting The Eagles and other hero’s of the nature. Amanda was only 16 when she became a house hold name in the country community but that hasn’t changed...

Hey it’s two podcasters in two weeks. Coincidence? Yes totally!.  Kevin Hilliard is one of the people behind the successful live show and podcast “Pitch Talks”. Pitch Talks is a show that breaks down the game of  baseball for both new fans and life time lovers alike. The live shows are candid conversations and the podcast is a more compact version of the live show. It’s a g...

Pat Lackenbauer is a fellow podcaster based in the Kitchener Waterloo area of Ontario. Like myself, Pat wanted to do a podcast that revolve around story telling and how personal experiences make us who we are today. Pat is an expert at extracting a clear, defined and well told story from whomever he’s interviewing. Pat started out early in life as an artist where he turned his talent into a...