ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JAN. 18, 1996 By Steve Newton You wouldn’t think bluesman Robert Cray would be musically indebted to the Beatles, but they were the band that drove him to pick up a guitar. By the age of 10 Cray had already been soaking up the gospel, jazz, soul, and blues in his parents’ … Continue reading Robert Cray gets the thing happening on Some Rainy Morning
Tag: 1996
The Smalls sound nice and chunky on Waste & Tragedy
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON NOV. 9, 1995 By Steve Newton Some rock bands dream about being popular enough to play large venues but whine about getting booked in the little, out-of-the-way places on the way up. Not the Smalls, though. You won’t get any complaints out of them when they see locations like Kamloops and Fort … Continue reading The Smalls sound nice and chunky on Waste & Tragedy
My fifth and final interview with Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON NOV. 7, 1996 By Steve Newton When word went out over the local airwaves one July morning last year that the Tragically Hip were playing a tiny Vancouver club that night to raise funds for the Vancouver Food Bank—and give 200 or so of their die-hard fans the thrill of a lifetime—pandemonium … Continue reading My fifth and final interview with Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip
Horror review: Deep Rising
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, FEB. 12, 1998 By Steve Newton What’s up with Vancouver and the scary movies that are made here? This town may be tops in TV terror (Millennium, The X-Files, The Outer Limits), but it sure has trouble producing decent horror flicks for the big screen, as anyone who’s suffered … Continue reading Horror review: Deep Rising
Horror review: Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON AUG. 29, 1996 By Steve Newton About halfway through Bordello of Blood, the second of three features slated to come from the producers of TV’s Tales from the Crypt, private detective Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller) makes a lame wisecrack that stands out from the multitude of others infesting this puerile horror-comedy. While … Continue reading Horror review: Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood