Articles by Michael Barclay

Rosie Thomas

Only With Laughter Can You Win

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

Thomas was that brainy, talented friend in high school with a choirgirl’s voice who edited the poetry yearbook and was the top drama studen...

Martin Tielli

Operation Infinite Joy

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2003

If the concept of Tielli’s first solo album was to explore hushed all-acoustic territory, this time out his sole purpose is to indulge his...

Bruce Cockburn

You've Never Seen Everything

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

The last 12 years haven’t produced much inspiring new material from Bruce Cockburn. This time, he took four years off in between albums, an...

Nick Luca Trio

Little Town

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2003

The sound of an Arizonan hangover. Muggy, foggy, languid, vision and speech both blurred and slurred. Nick Luca is a staple figure around W...

Seen Your Favourite Indie Band On TV? Why Not?

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

You've just spent the last year getting your new album together. You've begged, borrowed and stolen to finance the recording, the mixing, t...

Brian Wilson

On Tour

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

For diehard fans only, as this isn't much of a documentary and merely average as a concert film. The principle appeal is, of course, that B...

Gordon Downie

Battle of the Nudes

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2003

Downie’s first solo album, 2001’s Coke Machine Glow, was all about the poet wandering off the rock’n’roll highway, walking through the loft...

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Sam Jones

PUBLISHED May 1, 2003

Sam Jones had many tough decisions to make when his innocent documentary about a great band making a new album turned into the most dramati...