Original Post Date: Thursday, August 07, 2008
After submitting to CiTR's Shindig in hopes of playing The Railway Club. Despite the fact that The Remedials swore they'd never play a battle of the bands again. And by some divine intervention managed to deceive the Shindig judges into accepting their submission. Or perhaps Shindig's standards have fallen so low as to allow a band like The Remedials even compete. Regardless, The Remedials accomplished a lot in only one night! Not only did they finally get to play The Railway Club (while the model train chugged around the room no less!), they rendered the scensters/hipsters/everyone else speechless with only one song, got an audio recording of the entire performance ("Can You Shindig It?") and received valuable feedback from the judges!
Here's some highlights:
"Almost everyone in this city is playing noisy post-punk, so it's nice to hear some classic punk"
"Date Rape lyrics – F_ckin ballsy"
"Last song = dope"
"I like the way each of you brings the same strengths to the vocals – try to work in more of the three of you singing together"
"Performance was tight, mix was really good. Song and lyrics were catchy…"
"If I was betting on a fight on the bands tonight, I'd put my money on you guys, cause you'd win – yer meaner"
"You guys sound really natural and not at all contrived"
"F_ck you and your testosterone"
"PS. You are all out of tune"
Shindig 2007 was short and sweet for The Remedials!
The Remedials would like to thank: Ben Lai, CiTR, The Railway Club, Richard (door), Johnny Wildcat (sound) and Gord from Fatality Music (recording). Props to The National Shield and The SSRIs for advancing to the next round! Phew, now Gabe doesn't have to pony up to rent a guitar cab again!
"Bonus points for the singer looking like Christian Slater!" Shindig Judge
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