ok so tonight i went off to blockbuster, since hockey was cancelled due to some odd rec centre stike {mumbles profanities}

we pick up a bunch of movies such as

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Emperor's new groove
constantine

we're really weird early 20ers

also got a free magazine called "Inside entertainment" {oct'05}

honestly just picked it up because Jake Gyllenhaal is on the cover

but while fliping through (for jake article) found GBS!!! page 91

yay


I have this weekend off so sleep is no matter

so heres my pathetic attempt at typing out the full page (with good sized NEW pic) article:

Chips off the old Rock
the Great Big Sea boys delve deeper that ever into their musical heritage

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The old and the new have always gone hand in hand with Great
Big Sea, Although the group has written its share of pop hits,
sole over a million albums in Canada, found itself in heavy ro-
tation on MuchMusic and shared stages with everyone from Sinead
O'Connor to The Tragically Hip, Newfoundlands favorite sons love
nothing more than to sing rousing sea shanties from their island-the older
the better. "Those songs are so much bigger then us and it's very hum-
bling to sing them, " says Alan Doyle, Great Big Sea's charismatic singer/
gutarist. "They've lasted for generations and generations. These days,
it's tough enough to get a contemporary song to last for two weeks"

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From the beginning, Great Big Sea's mandate has
been to mix original material with covers of tradi-
tional local songs like "Rant and Roar" and " I'se the
B'ys" It's a formula that has done wonders for the New-
foundland tourism, as the band has toured across
North America and other parts of the world. "People
seem to be charmed by our culture because it's just
foreign enough to be exotic," says Doyle. " They've often
ask us to sing the songs from our own backyard,
which we're happy to do." But the band hardly oblig-
es for commercial reasons "I can assure you that
we don't perform 500-year-old songs in order to get
rich." says Doyle."We do it because we love it."


Great Big Sea's latest album The Hard and The Easy, is a departure in that it's devoted entirly to
traditional Newfoundland songs. The group which
includes original members Sean McCann (vocals
bodhran) and Bob Hallett (fiddle, accordion, tin
whistle) as well as newcomers Murray Foster(bass)
and Kris MacFarlane (percussion), delved into the
Peacock and Gerald S Doyle collections of roman-
tic, historical and working songs. The band mem-
bers also drew on songs they learned as children at
kitchen parties. Some , like,"Old Polina" and "Cap-
tain Kidd", deal with seafarers, while others such
as "The River Driver" concern life in lumber camps.
Oddly enough, there are two dramatic songs that
involve horses on ponds:"Concering Charlie
Horse" and "Tickle Cove Pond," which features the
recording debut of Doyles father on chorus vo-
cals. There are also bawy shanties("The Mer-
maid" and "French Shore") and the counting song,
"Come and I Will Sing to You(The Twelve Apostles)"
a song originally preformed by Newfoundland's first
popular folk-rock greoup, Figgy Duff, in the 1970s

Doyle, McCann and Hallett formed Great Big
Sea in the early '90s as a post-university employment
prject (McCann and Hallett had previously played
in the subversivly named 'The Newfoundland Re-
publican Party). Signed to Warned Music Canada
during the boom in Canacian Celtic music that saw
the rise of Ashley MacIsaac, Natalie Macmaster, The
Rankin Family and others, GBS reached the Top
10 with five consecutive albums and, with 1996's
"Lukey", which made an ages-old song sung by
school kids on the island popular across the coun-
try. The fallowing year, the group scored another hit
with it's screeched-up version of R.E.M.'s "It's the
End of the World as We Know it" In 2002, GBS
was in the spotlight as St.John's played host to the
Juno Awards. And, earlier this year, Hollywood
came knocking when actor Russel Crowe hired
Doyle to produce his latest album.

For all the successes and brushes with celebrity,
Doyle and the crew have remained steadfastly true to
the Rock and it's unique traditions."It's an odd gate-
way between the old world and the new world, a
place where for 500 years those two places met,"
explains Doyle. " That made for a stew of strange
mixed cultures, of which" he adds with a laugh," I
am the result sorry."



for those wanting more
check out this mag site

insideEonline.com

(my comp doesn't run it so well)

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