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Bev Shepherd Saving Little Nova Little Nova, who just turned 8 months old has fallen ill. After already spending days in emergency care the vets have found t
Nova has become sick and were reaching out for help to pay for the surgery. A stick has mutilated her throat and is causing severe infection. She's 8 months and a little ball of joy. @helloslinkii is willing to pick up bottles for donations from central to south island. Any help is appreciated; thank you all so much!
Small Block Brewing- Nail Head Canadian Pale Ale Located in Duncan BC, Small Block Brewing loves hot rod culture. This love can be seen not only in the brewery name but in all the branding, including the beer names and labels, as well as in the brewery which is decorated to look similar to a mechanics garage.
Blue Grouse Estate Winery The Perfect Bed & Bottle Getaway
This winery post is in partnership with Blue Grouse Winery. All opinions expressed are 100% my own.
They say you’ll never forget your first and that couldn’t be truer about my first winery visit. I remember watching the wine bottles being passed around at special family dinners growing up and even sneaking a sip or two as a teenager.
Blue Grouse Estate Winery checks off a number of boxes for me…
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Banned From The Duncan Showroom!
On March 13th, 2017, we played a show with our pals The Helletones and BUZZARD at a place in Duncan, B.C. called The Duncan Showroom.
It is a venue run by a pair of 800 year old out-of-touch hippies, one of which goes by the name of “Longevity John”.
We were the first band to play, and about halfway through our second song, I noticed some weird effects being piped in over our performance. Trailing off delay, excruciating reverb... very distracting nonetheless. We did not sound like ourselves, and it was not because of anything WE were doing.
This was also not an isolated incident. This trend would also continue throughout The Helletones set, as well as Buzzard’s.
Now, The Showroom has a habit of filming and live-streaming all of the bands who play at their venue, and after viewing our set online, decided that the final product which was posted was not represented of what we actually sound like, due to the Showroom’s sound man taking it upon himself to lay his own effects into our music.
After contacting them via e-mail, and politely asking them to take it down, and politely asking just what had happened, the sound man very rudely demanded to know why we wanted it deleted; adding that unless I supplied a good enough reason, he would not do so (which is illegal).
After explaining to him my reasoning, he then replied IN ALL CAPITALS, that the reason why he did it was because:
1. we were too loud
2. we “sucked”
3. we were too loud
I asked him if that was also the reason why he did it to The Helletones (who definitely DON’T suck), as well as Buzzard (who also definitely do not suck), and all he could offer me was incoherent hippie ramblings about “respect for elders”, and “the artistic standards of the Duncan Showroom”.
It was only after I threatened him with legal action did he IMMEDIATELY take it down, but not after telling us that our band was BANNED from ever playing there again. (OH NO! LOL. We’ll just have to find the courage to continue on with our lives.) God forbid we be in charge of our own art, and decide where and where it does not belong.
It would seem to me that if you ran a live music venue (particularly one that is in several thousand dollars in debt), you’d do a little research on the types of acts and artists you have play there. If you believe a band “sucks” and is “too loud”, you do not start fucking with them in the middle of their set. If you dislike a band, or feel somebody is too loud... you let them finish..... and then you don’t have them back. Plain and simple. This is not an artistic collaboration. Your job is to make us sound how we ask you to make us sound. You don’t try to make a tight, mean, loud rock and roll band sound like they’re playing in a wind tunnel, or inside Brian Wilson’s glass bathroom.
For any bands thinking of going to Duncan, B.C. and playing at the horrible hippie commune known as the Duncan Showroom... DON’T.
Apparently, this is kind of what they do regularly, as we are not the first band to complain about this problem, nor about the venue’s management and attitude in general.
Good luck everybody.
Life is short. Play loud. And stay the fuck away from hippies. The 60s are over.
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Moss on my roof! Is it a problem? The answer is most often yes, moss roots itself into the granules i.e. rocks on asphalt roofing. The environment on Vancouver Island is optimum for the growth of moss and algae and molds. On roofs that we have installed in Victoria and Duncan B.C. we have found the moss will start growing within 10 years on A.R. Roofs.) A.R. Roofs are algae resistant roofs, some people refer to these shingles as moss proof. This however is untrue as there is over a thousand species of moss no manufacture can claim they can stop moss. A.R. “resistant” please read more at http://www.pwmccallum.ca/moss-removal.php
Some of the wildlife from my ride today! Northern red-legged frog (Rana aurora) Banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus) Pacific sideband (Monadenia fidelis) Sparrow ??? Wood duck (Aix sponsa)
