MORE THAN MUSIC

Jose Alberto is an amazing drummer from Costa Rica. He has played in so many significant bands in the last 10 plus years including Overseas, Diger, Ticking Time Bomb, and he currently plays in Buena Suerte, San Jose’s favourite ska group and Jungle Julia, the alt-country powerhouse. He has toured central, South and North America, and has played festivals such as The Fest, in Florida, Pouzza Fest in Montreal, North by Northeast in Toronto and Finca Fest in Costa Rica. He was the first touring drummer of Chris' solo project and he has seen him play 3 full sets with 3 different bands in one night.

Our guest on Episode 8 is Ikka Tuominen. He is a musician and family man from Finland. He has played in Assembly Line, Life giving Waters (which found a slight notoriety after the fact by being included in a Dudesons program), Truck, Cigarette Crossfire, and his current band Custody. He also has an acoustic project with his wife and band members of Life Giving Waters called Mutkat Ja Tunnelit (Curves & Tunnels). He has toured extensively in Europe and the US playing such festivals as Punk Rock Holiday and Fest, he organizes shows and is an avid record collector.

Chris Colohan is somewhat of a mythical figure in the hardcore scene. He has fronted some bands that have attained cult like status such as Cursed, Left For Dead, The Swarm, Burning Love, Ruination, Countdown To Oblivion, and his current project Sect.

He has released records on almost all formats, and we say this because Cursed released an 8 track last year. He used to run a record label called High Anxiety, He has had multiple art exhibitions, he has published two books, "Negative Space", and "No he is not sleeping". He is a powerful magnate in the cooking world with Vegan Magic.

He has travelled the world playing music and even though his body has started to rebel and realize how old he is, his brain and heart will never acknowledge it and he’ll always keep moving on. Hence the mythology surrounding Chris Colohan.

I’m sure anyone who knows Chris can imagine the eye roll and the humorous vitriol that is about to come out of his mouth over this intro.

Matty Grace is a musician from the East Coast of Canada who has been in so many bands that it’s almost impossible to count. Outta Controller, Fat Stupids, Weekend Dads, Sore Spots, Future Girls, Modern Cynics, Century Egg, Cluttered (who just won the Music Nova Scotia Loud Recording of the year Award) and she performs as a solo artist and let’s be honest, I’m sure I’ve missed at least a dozen more.

She has been a staple in the Halifax DIY punk community forever and the bands she has been in have releases on labels from all over the world. At the end of February of this year she moved to Ottawa and already has a new band, Crisis Party, with some of Ottawa’s friendliest punks.

Matty is a very active trans advocate who has been dealing with her own dysphoria with a huge support network based on how great she is as a person.  

Content Warning : In this conversation, the topic of suicide was brought up and may be triggering or upsetting to certain listeners. If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, please reach out and talk to someone in order to receive the help you need. 

Jono Hunter is a filmmaker, musician, artist, writer, record label head honcho and all round super talented person. He hails from the East Coast of Canada and lived in Toronto for many years when he and his bandmates in Horses moved there and recently he has been living in LA but that may be coming to an end. He has played in multiple bands, including some of my favourite bands, period, Atlas, Horses, Attention, Threes, Found Objects, Downers, supporting Malcolm Bauld, Greg Macpherson, and I’m sure a ton more.

He has filmed numerous music videos for his own and his friends bands going back over a decade, and runs a record label called Must Be Nice that puts out his and his friends records. He has created so many tour and show posters.

He released an award winning, well-received feature film called Modern Classic, as well as numerous award winning shorts that he wrote or co-wrote, directed, and acted in. He wrote, voiced and animated a short series called Night Drives. He released a graphic novel called Visitors. Maybe later in the episode we’ll talk a bit about Hoaxes… And if we don’t, look it up.

But to pay the bills, he is a very in demand creator and director for commercials for major brands and has representation all over the world.   

Chris met Todd in Burlington VT in the early mid 90’s at shows at 242 Main and have been friends ever since.

He was extremely straight edge and even had a volkswagen with the words Straight Edge in decals across the front windshield. 

The first time Chris went out to California, Todd just happened to be out there recording with Heckle and they all cruised around in a 62 Dodge Dart that a friend of Chris's had loaned him. 

Todd lived in LA for many years and currently lives just outside of Portland with his wife Lindsey and their two awesome daughters, Lucy & Ava Jane

He has a solid side hustle called 2020 woodworks where he makes top quality custom furniture.

Chris met Svenja at the Rhinos Feroces festival, in France, in 2017 when she was on tour as the merch manager for Jaya The Cat. They have kept in touch digitally over the years and have always made plans to hang out when they think their touring schedules will be nearby but the touring life takes you all over the place. Then the pandemic hit March 2020 and all touring stopped. She is a highly respected freelance photographer, a retouching specialist, a driver, roadie, tech, tour manager, and anything else you can think of related to the traveling circus known as live music. Here’s to hoping that we can see each other again in some random place on this planet doing what we love in 2022.  

Christian Walker is a Memphis based actor, film maker, producer, set builder, host of his own podcast with another film maker Jared B Callan called Tourror stories, a myriad of other things, and he is a fantastic musician in his own right, which is how Thibault and I first met him, in the 90’s with his punk band, Pezz.

He has released records on such notable labels as BYO,  toured around the world, written, directed and acted in movies that have themselves toured the film festival circuit and won awards. He still plays in Pezz and writes music for a potential solo project as well as tirelessly works in the film industry

He is passionate about creativity in whatever form it manifests itself. In todays podcast we will be talking to him about his life with a guitar, a camera, a script, a tool, and how he wields all of them to the best of his abilities. 

Jesse Gander is the owner and chief recording engineer at Raincity Recorders in Vancouver BC. He has been involved in sound and music production for over 20 years. In his career he has  recorded around 600+ releases by over 500 bands and artists from around the world. These projects have been varied in genre, always with a focus on original, independent music. He is a staple in the Vancouver music scene and has toured extensively in Canada, US, Europe and even Cuba having played well over 1000 shows. He has played in bands such as dbs, Operation Makeout, Previous Tenants, Black Rice, Plus Perfect, Ghosthouse and currently sings and plays keys in the Uptights as well as keys and guitar in Needles/Pins, both of whom have released albums in the last year.