Feb. 08, 2012 - Issue #851: Jon Mick
Miesha and the Spanks
Sat, Feb 11, Wunderbar
Do you like danger? Then you will love Miesha and the Spanks. Like the bastard child of Toni Basil and Johnny Ramone, Miesha and the Spanks is a band that will sing a song about cutting you, while cutting you. Singer/guitarist Miesha Louie gave Vue the lowdown on musical life at home and on the road.At home
Morning
Ricca Razor Sharp, Causeways and Seaways
He's been around forever, but I just recently discovered Ricca Razor Sharp and can't stop listening to it, particularly "Do You in the '80s." It reminds me of '80s/'90s-style hip hop, which I was in love with growing up, and is great in the morning for getting moving before work, or getting moving with a dance party in my basement suite (in the morning) post-rock 'n' roll show.
Noon
Starvin' Hungry, Cold Burns
Straight up rock 'n' roll to get through the work day, be that at the restaurant where I cook (The Coup), or at home working on tours or other band business. There's a lot more I could toss in for the soundtrack of my afternoon, like C'mon, Cowpuncher and Bebop Cortez, but lately I'm putting this album on repeat.
Night
Whitey Houston, "I Got Fucked By Liberty Mutual"
Getting ready to play or party, nothing beats dancing around singing along to "I got fucked by liberty mutual ..."
On the road
Morning
Turbonegro, Apocalypse Dudes
Pulling out of the residential side street you parked the van on and passed out in after the show in whatever city you're in, Tim Horton's being the closest and sometimes only coffee around, you have to start the first track right after the coffee is in your hand and you are pulling onto the highway. The intro to Apocalypse Dudes gets your basic motor skills functioning again and then the song to follow reminds you that yes, you are on tour, and yes, this is the best.
Noon
Hot Snakes, Suicide Invoice / Peaches, Teaches of Peaches
This is another thing where we will blast through a million albums on the afternoon drive to wherever, probably Turbonegro a few more times in there, and some other weird ones that one of us might hate just to keep it interesting, but these two are staples. Hot Snakes for power driving, and Peaches for the sing alongs, "huh ... what ... right ... unh ..." Sometimes when we have road-guests they don't really get it. We really like Peaches.
Night
C'mon, C'monpilation
C'mon is probably our favourite band, and they put out a compilation of a lot of their singles a couple years ago. So some of our favourite songs that we only had on vinyl we now have as a road disc. So the song that we play, at the end of the night, after loading the gear, on the way to the party (even if that's the two of us parked on residential side-street drinking tecate and babbling about how awesome touring is until we fall asleep in the van), the song that we almost always rock out to is, "Peaches' Bathroom" by C'mon.
Sat, Feb 11 (9 pm)
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