July/ August Listings - Updated

June
Tuesday 29 - Comic Book Syndicate Filming
Wednesday 30 - Billy The Kid (Toronto) w/ TBA - 9pm - ALL AGES
AND
Art Opening by Mike Edwards / Jay Drummond / Steve Burrell


July
Thursday 1 - James O-L and The Villains w/ The Charming Ruins - 9pm - 19+
Friday 2 - Great Bloomers (Toronto) w/  - 10pm - 19+
Saturday 3 - Explode When They Bloom w/ Cut Throat Britva (Toronto) and Vultures! - 10pm - 19+
Sunday 4 - Forest City Lovers (London) w/ Evening Hymns (Toronto) w/ Kevin Echlin - 9pm - ALL AGES
Monday 5 - Open Mic Surgery with Tara Watts - 10pm - 19+
Wednesday 7 - Juice Open Mic Poetry
Friday 9 - Fjord Rowboat (Toronto) w/ Two For The Cascade - 10pm - 19+
Saturday 10 - The Junction (Toronto) w/ Frontiers - 10pm - 19+
Monday 12 - Open Mic Surgery with Tara Watts - 10pm - 19+
Tuesday 13 - Michou w/ TBA - 9pm - 19+
Wednesday 14 - 87 Things For The Future w/ Kevin Romain's Free Jazz Alarm Clock and Anna Atkinson - 9pm - 19+
Thursday 15 - Pat Robitaille w/ Sarah Loucks (Peterborough) and Dan Roth (Toronto)  - 9pm - 19+
Friday 16 - Cap'n Jerry and the Mermaids (Detroit) w/ TBA
Saturday 17 - Eamon McGrath (Edmonton) w/ Mohawk Lodge (Vancouver) and Wax Mannequin (Hamilton)  - 9pm - 19+
Monday 19 - Open Mic Surgery with Tara Watts - 10pm - 19+
Tuesday 20 - Killmore Place (Vancouver) w/ This is Franco (Vancouver) and Red Rows - 9pm - 19+
Wednesday 21 - Old Crowns (Ottawa) w/ Brett Caswell and The Marquee Rose (Barrie) and TBA - 9pm - 19+
Thursday 22 - Yukon Blonde (Vancouver) w/
Friday 23 - Artful Vandelays (Toronto) w/ Frontiers and Point in 7
Saturday 24 - Jetset Motel (Toronto) w/ Great Diviners (Toronto) - 10pm - 19+
Sunday 25 - Fringe Fest Afterparty
Monday 26 - Open Mic Surgery with Tara Watts - 10pm - 19+
Tuesday 27 - Chrissi Cochrane (Halifax) w/ Mike Hargreaves and Efan Music - All Ages - 5pm start!
Friday 30 - Birthday Cakes (Sudbury) w/ The Tyres and This is Me as a Woman - 10pm - 19+

August
Monday 2 - Open Mic Surgery with Tara Watts
Friday 6 - Kenneth MacLeod and The Windsor Salt Band
Saturday 7 - Pigeon Park (Vancouver) w/ TBA
Monday 9 - Open Mic Surgery with Tara Watts
Tuesday 10 - This City Defects (Calgary) w/ TBA
Wednesday 11 - Mountains and the Trees (NFLD) w/ The Wilderness of Manitoba
Saturday 14 - Phog Phest 2 - Tickets are $10 per person. ON SALE NOW.
The Bulletproof Tiger (Windsor)
Grand Analog (Toronto)
James O-L and The Villains (Windsor)
Lindy (Toronto)
The Locusts Have No King (Windsor)
The Magic Hall of Mirrors (Windsor)
The Mark Inside (Toronto)
Raised By Swans (London)
Young Rival (Hamilton)
http://www.myspace.com/thebulletprooftiger
http://www.myspace.com/grandanalog
http://www.myspace.com/jamesol
http://www.myspace.com/lindymusic
http://www.myspace.com/thelocustshavenoking
http://www.myspace.com/magichallofmirrors
http://www.myspace.com/themarkinside
http://www.myspace.com/raisedbyswans
http://www.myspace.com/youngrival
Monday 16 - Open Mic Surgery with Tara Watts
Tuesday 17 - Free Boat Rentals (Toronto)
Wednesday 18 - Beware! The Leopard (Toronto)
Thursday 19 - She Roars! (Fredericton) w/
Friday 20 - Keek w/ Frontiers
Saturday 21 - Pistol George Warren (Sudbury)
Monday 23 - Open Mic Surgery with Tara Watts
Wednesday 25 - The Ginn Sisters
Saturday 28 - Big Wheel and The Spokes (Sault Ste. Marie)
Monday 30 - Open Mic Surgery with Tara Watts

Michou does it again...with June Balloons!

Friends of mine (members of the band Michou) ...and boosters of Windsor, Phog, Kid Cardigan, and more...are doing something fun this month.

Throughout the month they are having a series of promos and interactions planned that involve lots of balloons. The first chunk of this project is to place balloons in high-traffic areas with the phrase, "It's Nice To Michou" written on each of them. So far, all of the balloons are bright yellow. They're meant to be found by their fans, scavenger-hunt-style, just for fun.

Fans are encouraged to photograph or videotape the balloons, wherever they find them, and upload their links to Michou's Facebook page - HERE.

I love this kind of interaction/promotion by artists simply because they are creating something else, something new to engage their loving fans. I'd like to see more of it from bands that can make it work. Granted...Gwar likely can't do a June Balloon promo, but certain acts can leverage creativity to remind fans of their projects.

Check out these videos of them explaining June Balloons and installing a couple of them in the downtown Windsor area.

This first video is crazy.




THEN watch the Eavesdropping (balloon-heavy) video!