Eugene Osudar

Winnipeg. Definitely Winnipeg.

Posts by Eugene Osudar

• Concert review – Ridley Bent and Chris Dunn

  Ridley Bent has been called ‘the Quentin Tarantino of country music’…

• Concert review – NQ Arbuckle at Times Change(d), Winnipeg, July 22 2010

  ‘They end with the Rheostatics’ Record Body Count…’

• Concert review – Cellolitis/Nikolaus Herdieckerhoff

  The cellist with the most buzz…

• Neema

  ‘… come see/why L Cohen/chose/to/produce/(in association with)/her new CD…’

• The New Pornographers at the Garrick Theatre, Winnipeg, June 10 2010

  ‘… a band so tight/stationary and yet/fully in flight…’

• Preview – Nightwood

  Montreal torch-grunge trio plays Neptoon Records and Little Mountain Gallery in Vancouver today (Sunday June 13)…

• Buzzcocks at the Pyramid Cabaret, Winnipeg, May 26 2010

  ‘… there’s so much vinegar in the room…’

• Public Enemy at the Garrick Theatre, Winnipeg, May 21 2010

  - photos by Ailsa Dyson
  sometimes beautiful things
  happen in the heat
  on a long weekend
  in My Winnipeg
  sometimes
  a seriously amazing
  group
  like,
  Public Enemy
  runs into Queen
  Victoria’s [...]

• Fucked Up at the West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, May 17 2010

  ‘Fucked Up is The Heaviest Fiercest Nastiest band in Canada…’

• Moonlight Madness Burlesque

  ‘… spin those tassels…’

• Concert Review – Nobunny at the Royal Albert, Winnipeg, May 12 2009

  ‘Nobunny is punk hopping insanity!’

• Olof Arnalds at the West End Cultural Centre, Nuna Festival, Winnipeg, May 7 2010

  ‘… break us into/exquisite pieces…’

• Baby Dee at the West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, April 20

  Baby Dee plays Gallery Gachet in Vancouver April 27

• A Fiery Soul – Devon Clifford

  ‘… and Devon roared with me we roared back and forth…’

• Review – Nightwood at The Boat, Toronto, April 1 2010

  ‘In 35 minutes and eight songs Nightwood destroyed me…’

• Serena-Maneesh at the Drake Hotel, Toronto, April 2 2010

  Oslo’s Serena-Maneesh blows another Canadian audience away…

• You Say Party! We Say Die! at the Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, April 2 2010

  Everyone’s in love with the West Coast’s dancing queen…

• Review – The Wheat Pool at the Cadillac Lounge, Toronto, March 30 2010

  The Wheat Pool sends tingles and shivers racing up and down our reviewer’s ‘rocky spine’.

• Nada Surf at Lee’s Palace, Toronto, March 29 2010

  ‘… a beautiful dessert strawberry raspberry honeydew cantaloupe over ice cream…’

• Review – Seabear at the Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, March 31 2010

  ‘the buzz is too much really… it’s really a roar. it’s deafening.’

• Review – Thrush Hermit at Lee’s Palace, Toronto March 28 2010

  ‘nothing compares/to the ferocity/sincerity/passion and fullness/of their guitars, their/bass, their booming drums…’

• A Love Letter for Alex Chilton

  ‘there was a time, when i couldn’t pass a day by without a little Big Star, without Bach’s Bottom, so fine American punk rock. Like Flies On Sherbert. pass the chems and booze and yes, it is slop punky music and production…’

• Antoine Gratton at Festival du voyageur, Winnipeg Feb 18 2010

  It’s as if Elvis was reborn as a French dude…

• Tanya Tagaq w/ Eighth Blackbird at the Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, Feb 11 2010

  Breathe deeply… inhale, exhale… now read…

• Review – Jenn Grant at the Park Theatre, Winnipeg, Feb 9 2010

  Jenn Grant plays a $20 guitar, sends our reviewer into a swoon, and covers Laura Veirs’ ‘Don’t Lose Yourself’.

• Review – Monotonix at the Pyramid Cabaret, Winnipeg, Jan 19 2010

  Eugene Osudar sings the praises (again) of the Tel Aviv band, with some fab Mike Latschislaw pics.

• Review – Tegan and Sara at the Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, Jan 14 2010

  Sometimes all it takes is one goon to ruin a show. But Tegan and Sara handle the jerk with aplomb at the first of two shows at “the Burt” in Winnipeg.

• The Year in Live Music

  ‘… my thing is full sets, feeling the ebb and ecstatic flow of beginnings, middles and ends and dancing and believing in musicians, in the arts. it’s being in the moment…’

• Concert Review – Hot Live Guys at the Royal Albert Arms, Winnipeg, Dec 23 2009

  ‘The hottest live band this city has ever seen…’

• Feature – f/action/Intervals at St John’s Chapel, Winnipeg Dec 4-5 2009

  ‘… it’s all about/the point/and the shoot/the bang/bang/of you(r) explosive eye…’

• Concert Review – Die Mannequin at the Park Theatre, Winnipeg, Nov 30 2009

  ‘… she’s giving them a lesson/in letting go/in being punk…’

• Concert Review – DJ Champion at the Pyramid Cabaret, Winnipeg, Nov 14 2009

  ‘… this was the best live show/i’ve seen since/Halloween night/No Means No…’

• Concert Review – Melissa McClelland at the West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Nov 10

  ‘… “don’t you ever fall in love/with a girl who works the clock/if you dare to carry on/she’ll leave you howling/in the light”…’

• Concert Review – Flogging Molly at the Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg, Oct 24 2009

  ‘Bridget sees some characters in full super/hero costume ten, or twelve, rows away and whispers to her husband, singer Dave King and a song later he says, “Is that The Flash?” and yes, there’s The Flash and Superwoman too all there to dance, super heroes love an Irish
  jig and reel…’

• Concert Review – The Most Serene Republic at the Pyramid, Winnipeg, Oct 3 2009

  Despite having all their equipment stolen on the mean streets of Vancouver, the Most Serene Republic play it hard and fast, loud and true in Winnipeg a few days later.

• Concert Review – Gogol Bordello at the Burton Cummings Theatre, Oct 3 09

  ‘Ukrainians/know how to dance/and celebrate/like/no other people, we’re/The Dancers./The Celebrants…’

• Concert Review – Amelia Curran at Times Change(d), Winnipeg, Sept 27 2009

  “hello it’s me/the mistress/is there anybody home/cuz the last place i should be/is sitting here alone/all i ask for forgiveness/if you’ve got some/give it here…”

• Concert Review – The Hold Steady at the West End Cultural Centre, Sept 24

  ’serious is fine carrying the world on your shoulders like Bono, but give me joy…’

• Concert Review – Tragically Hip at Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg Sept 7 2009

  i’ve never seen a performer sit on his mike stand as if it’s a lawnchair and take it round and round spinning man, now that’s free styling!’

• Concert Review – AC/DC at Winnipeg Stadium, Aug 22 2009

  “Back in Black”, “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”, “Hells Bells”, “You Shook Me All Night Long”, “TNT”, “Whole Lotta Rosie”, “Let There Be Rock”…