My guests today are all involved in the next upcoming Theatre UNB production, Stag and Doe: Maham Raza (Director); Brianna Hawkes (Technical Director); Kabilan Shanmugaraja (Stage Manager). Since I have several behind-the-scenes people with me today, we get a chance to talk in depth about setting up the location of this play, the magic of live, fake cooking, and how each of them stepped into their roles.

Stag and Doe opens at Memorial Hall at UNB on October 23 at 7:30pm, and runs nightly through October 25.

New music this week from Wednesday, Sloan and Absolute Losers and I also take a look back at a couple of albums released on Oct 6th in previous years. Check it out!

Absolute Losers – Kiss Of Death

My guest today is Jared Carney, local filmmaker and organizer of the Demonic Brilliant Film Festival, the local festival of horror. We discuss some of the standout movies for each of the three theme nights.

Demonic Brilliance Film Festival ran October 2-4 at the Open Space Theatre.

My guests today are Natasha MacLellan (TNB Artistic Director) and Dean Fleming (Director) who are behind the staging of The Greatest Play in the History of the World by Ian Kershaw, a curious new production coming to the Open Space stage.

We discuss the origins of this play, Dean’s experience staging it with his wife, and some of the unusual things to watch for in this play.

The Greatest Play in the History of the World opens on the Open Space stage on October 16 in Fredericton, and runs nightly until October 18 at 7:30pm with a matinee at 2:00pm on October 19. It heads out on tour across the province before coming back to Fredericton on October 26.

welcome to the fox den, where i bring you tonal inconsistency, consistently!

in this episode you’ll hear …

hiya! in this episode of indie whimsy you’ll hear …

1) the smiths – sweet and tender hooligan (louder than bombs; 1987)

2) arcade fire – sprawl i (flatland) (the suburbs; 2010)

3) the smiths – last night i dreamt that somebody loved me (strangeways, here we come; 1987)

4) amy millan – towers (masters of the burial; 2009)

5) 10,000 maniacs – trouble me (blind man’s zoo; 1989)

6) broken social scene – art house director (forgiveness rock record; 2009)

7) velvet crush – my blank pages (teenage symphonies to god; 1994)

8) arcade fire – flashbulb eyes (reflektor; 2012)

9) belle and sebastian – when we were very young (late developers; 2023)

10) amy millan – blue in yr eye (honey from the tombs; 2006)

11) they might be giants – we want a rock (flood; 1990)

12) saturday looks good to me – empty beach (one kiss ends it all; 2013)

13) belle and sebastian – shoot the sexual athlete (the bbc sessions; 2008)

14) death cab for cutie – before the bombs (the blue ep; 2019)

15) the aislers set – the way to market station (the last match; 2000)

16) the shins – simple song (port of morrow; 2012)

Hello again everyone. I hope that you’re in the mood for some amazing music as I am.

It’s a pretty full show so let’s boogie.

This is Testing For Echo Episode 86 on CHSR FM 97.9 in Fredericton and around the world and I am always pleased to be your host Tim Scammell.

To start off let’s have a shot of solo Geddy Lee From his 2000 album My Favourite Headache this is The Angels Share.

Episode Song List

Episode 12. Music from various genres going back to the 80’s. Sarah Slean is the focus of this week’s [x] Years Later segment, with a song from her 1998 debut album Blue Parade and 2017’s Metaphysics.

The Hello Crows will release their debut album on September 30, 2025, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (Orange Shirt Day), at The Playhouse.

Tonya chatted with band member, Judie Acquin, about creating the album, reclaiming language and the importance of supporting community.

Playlist

The Hello Crows – Red Flag ::

The Hello Crows – Warbler ::

The Hello Crows – Come Back To Me ::

Jeremy Dutcher – Qonute ::

Mike Bern – Ancestors ::

Aysanabee – Edge of the Earth ::

Wolf Castle – I Won’t Stop ::

Beatrice Deer – Immutaa ::

Beatrice Deer – Sapannga Sujunukua

hey hey! in this episode of indie whimsy you’ll hear: