Articles by Fish Griwkowsky

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  The Whitsundays

  The ARTery, Edmonton AB February 8

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

  A preface: Paul Arnusch is smartly dressed in black, waiting on stage with the Faunts in front of every geek in town at Video Games Live. T...

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  Wet Secrets/ Bend Sinister / Clips

  Starlite Room, Edmonton AB September 22

  PUBLISHED Oct 30, 2007

  In other cultures it would be an honour to have dead octopi and entrails thrown at you during a performance — that is if you were a band of...

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  Shout Out Out Out Out / San Serac / Our Mercury

  Planet Ze, Edmonton AB Aug 17 and 18

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

  After a recent spate of idiot violence in Edmonton from thugs and cops alike, it oddly became briefly fashionable to sport ironic black eye...

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  Hank + Lily / Meatdraw / Secretaries

  Econolodge, Edmonton AB August 2

  PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2007

  Imagine the nightmare: stuck on the highway in the middle of Alberta, night creeping in. That’s especially scary for Eastern readers what w...

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  Choke

  Starlite Room, Edmonton AB June 9

  PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2007

  "Some of these guys here have been at — what? — eight shows this tour,” the mountainous Clay Shea bellowed. He stopped for a second, his vo...

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  NoMeansNo / Greyhound Tragedy / The City Streets

  Starlite Room, Edmonton AB March 29

  PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2007

  How many times have Tom, Rob and John played to these same bricks? Punkin’ out the Bronx in the ’80s, sending off the Rev in the ’90s, and...

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  Pride Tiger / Frosted Tipz / Headband

  Starlite Room, Edmonton AB March 1

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2007

  Few venues in Canada are as suited for good-natured testosterone rock as the Starlite thanks to its sermon-on-the-mount, uphill roll to the...

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  David Lee Roth

  Ed’s, Edmonton AB - November 7

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

  This is going to be tough, but lay down that sneer for a second and admit that you love Van Halen and that it’s all right for old people to...