Friends In Bellwoods

By all accounts the Friends in Bellwoods CD compilation show on Friday night(with all proceeds going to the Daily Bread Food Bank) was a huge success. As of yesterday the Friends In Bellwoods website said they'd raised $2105.00 so far in proceeds to go to the Daily Bread Food Bank, not to mention all the non-perishable food items donated. Well done. I've read that most tickets were already sold out in advance and there was a lineup around the block(in the rain) with no chance in hell of getting in. I did pick up the Friends In Bellwoods CD compilation on Saturday and I also finally picked up the debut Ohbijou CD. Better late than never. But as I'd mention a few posts ago, Ohbijou have several local dates lined up in the near future, and I'm sure(well hoping) I'll get to see them live finally.

Snowsuit Sounds, jenistranslucent, and Melissa B have personal accounts of the show. Bramptonboi has photos he took during the night.

BlogTO has a track-by-track review of the Friends in Bellwoods CD compilation. You can purchase it at Soundscapes in Toronto for $17.99 and it will be available in stores across the country soon.

radio free canuckistan has an interview he conducted with Friends In Bellwoods co-mastermind Casey Mejica of Ohbijou.
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Barrie, ON's Fox Jaws(formerly known as Doris Day) have some upcoming local concert dates.

Rock Plaza Central's song "My Children, Be Joyful" was recently NPR's Song Of The Day[via Largehearted Boy].

Seems like former Velocity Girl vocalist Sarah Shannon has quite a Burt Bacharach fixation and who doesn't love Burt Bacharach? I do. You can preview her second solo album "City Morning Song" over at Minty Fresh[just click on 'Bazaar' at the top of the page]. Or else a few of the new tracks can be heard over at her MySpace.

And just a few reminders: The Diableros are on MTV Live tonight, I think around 6 pm or so. Also, if you haven't purchased your tickets for the Camera Obscura show at The Opera House on January 31, I'd suggest you do so; Soundscapes, and likely Rotate This are both sold out and Ticketmaster.ca is the only other outlet that probably has tickets now - that's where I got mine and a $17.00 face value turned into a $23.50 price tag. Ouch.

I'm glad I'm off work today, with the weather(well, at least the roads) as being as sucky as it is today.