Entertainment Today for Tuesday, July 26
Gig City updates the top entertainment headlines twice daily. Amy Winehouse’s funeral to take place today – NME.com [New Window] A spokesperson for the star’s family said the small, private event will be attended by family and close friends. A post-mortem took place yesterday, however, no cause of death was revealed. The inquest now been […]
Down With Webster roll out new material at Edmonton’s Capital Ex
It’s funny, the different perspectives you get when age is factored into judging music. The cliche that parents always hate their kids’ music is a cliche because it’s often true. But there’s also a risk in the wisdom that comes with experience: of jumping to inaccurate conclusions based on a small sampling size, for example. […]
Entertainment Today for Monday, July 24
Gig City rounds up the top entertainment headlines and links twice daily. Singer Amy Winehouse post-mortem date to be set – BBC News [New Window] The police are to fix a date later for the post-mortem examination into the death of Amy Winehouse. The singer’s body was found on Saturday afternoon at her home in […]
TRUE TALES: Edmonton’s Cap Ex, Wide Mouth Mason, and a Billy Gibbons bender
When Wide Mouth Mason opened for ZZ Top in 1997, they were treated as little more than fans granted a photo op at the backstage meet ‘n’ greet. It was a little different when the two bands toured together last summer. They went on a bender – which is the spark that created Wide Mouth’s […]
PREVIEW: It’s all going Pete Tong at Oil City Roadhouse
It’s one of those weekends, folks: a crazy number of interesting musical gigs around town to choose from, in just about every venue. Heck, it’s so busy that Blues festival circuit regular Morgan Davis is playing a BAR — it’s Rusty Reed’s House of Blues on 118 Avenue, by the by. But our vote for […]
Entertainment Today for Saturday, July 23
Gig City rounds up the top entertainment headlines twice daily. Elton John tickets sell out in three hours – Cape Breton Post [New Window] SYDNEY — Persistence and patience paid off for 6600 Elton John fans who landed …Feeling the love for Sir EltonToronto StarProfiting from ‘Rocket Man’ demandJournal PioneerWindsor fans line up for Elton […]
PREVIEW: Natasha Bedingfield gets deep in Edmonton
If British popstar Natasha Bedingfield were your modern stereotype, her voice would positively squeak. After all, this is a performer who’s biggest hit was called “pocket full of sunshine.” She’s blonde, beautiful and seems chipper enough. But you find the most surprising things out about someone sometimes. For one, Bedingfield spends her off-tour hours working […]
Entertainment Today for Friday, June 22
Gig City updates entertainment headlines from across the web twice daily. Longtime TV host Elwy Yost dies at 86 – CBC.ca [New Window] Elwy Yost turned a love of movies that he developed as a child into a career educating and entertaining Canadians as host of popular shows including TVOntario’s Saturday Night at the Movies […]
Entertainment Today for Thursday, July 21
Gig City rounds up the top entertainment headlines twice daily. Cheap Trick ‘crawled’ out from wreckage – Calgary Herald [New Window] Cheap Trick got a few songs in prior to the stage collapse at the Ottawa Bluesfest Sunday. At the outdoor concert’s finale Sunday night, Cheap Trick had just finished performing its hit song, .. […]
PREVIEW: River City Revue works blue at The Artery
Back about 45 years ago, the slightly risque, slightly funky, mostly funny combo on display Saturday night at The Artery would have been called “working blue.” It was slightly derisive slang for “dirty,” which meant the same thing then as now. You just couldn’t say the word sex much, let alone something like “my humps, […]
