YOU GUYS.
SappyFest is coming. It starts this Friday in Sackville, NB. The festival takes over Bridge Street for 3 days and features headliners like Colin Stetson, AroarA, Chad Vangaalen, Chain & the Gang, Joel Plaskett and Sarah Neufeld.
It is seriously the coolest festival around. Wonderfully curated. Totally unpretentious. Denim and band t-shirts and Chuck Taylors and Ray Bans.
I’ll be loading up the blog this week with a few cute interviews with Maritime bands, perhaps an outfit post and definitely a link to the sweet Sappyfest sampler that you need to download IMMEDIATELY. Actually, do that now. (
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Today I have a fun feature on your friend and mine, Adam Mowery.
I love this guy. I’ve been a fan of his music for years and years.
Hi Adam! Tell me about yourself and what you do.
Hi! Well, I’m an experimental songwriter from Atlantic Canada and I’ve been playing shows and releasing my own DIY pop records since around 2000, as a solo artist and in bands like The Grubbies, Wooden Wives and Port City All-Stars. I’ll be playing Sappy with my long-time backup group, The Giants of Industry, and basically we’re a three-piece rock’n’roll band. We play short songs very loud, and on a good night the energy is contagious, bud.
As a musician, where does your inspiration come from? What do you typically write most about?
That’s a good question…umm, I guess life experiences and places. I think a lot about my youth, I don’t write explicitly about specific events, y’know? But I try to use images and memories from youth and flesh it out until I find something interesting in those old experiences. But to be honest I’m influenced by all sorts of things, I devour magazines and old records for material all the time, and really, admiring my favorite artists, musicians, comedians or whatever, that’s what inspires me to create my own songs and records. I’m also inspired by the thought of one day having a robust and exhaustive body of work.
Here’s a little fill in the black about
your last recording…
The last record I played on was LOCAL BANDS put out by my own label, Dog Songs. My favourite track on the record is Local Bands, the title track, because it’s about my life in Saint John, NB, where I lived for many years and played shows. The song explores those weird, dull, nights of hanging in bars for basically no money with yer friends. It’s an album about frustration and defeat but in the end enthusiasm and cartoonish optimism. It was recorded for the most part in Saint John, NB at the old jamspace there, largely with my friend and frequent collaborator Pierre Cormier. But about half of the record was recorded at my home in Halifax, on 4-track and with several home-recording programs.
Adam, outside of Mel’s. Stolen from his Facebook profile.
Sappyfest is a pretty incredible festival.
What are you most looking forward to
about Sackville this summer?
A milkshake at Mel’s, mostly.
2013 has been OK for music.
What are your favourite tracks so far this year?
My favourite track so far this year is by a Halifax psych group called Walrus. I try and see them whenever they play around the city, the track is called “1990″. You can dig it here: http://walrustheband.bandcamp.com/. I find its kinda got a Brian Jonestown vibe, and yeah, they are one of the best bands in the city to catch live, like for reals.
The record I’ve listened to the most this year though is Mike Nesmith’s Magnetic South. Mike was always the best Monkee, I thought and Magnetic South is a great summertime record, it came out in July of 1970, and its kinda like an alternate universe Gram Parsons experience. So yeah, if you wanna dig through the record bin for some classic summer jamz, I highly recommend Mike Nesmith’s Magnetic South, I bet you could get the LP used for a dollar. Think cosmic country music, kids.
In your opinion, what is the Sappyfest
“must attend set”?
Easy, KAPPA CHOW at the Legion Saturday night.
But also, don’t miss Monomyth (Sunday, 5pm at the Legion), Old and Weird (Saturday, 5pm at the Legion) or Shotgun Jimmie (Saturday, 8pm on the Main Stage), either. That’s just common sense, bud.
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Adam Mowery and his Giants of Industry are playing Sunday night at the Legion with Monomyth.
Here are a few songs to get you pumped for SappyFest:
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