While various rock acts have been known to play at large curling events – say hello
Randy Bachman,
Ashley MacIsaac,
David Wilcox and
Danko Jones – Canadian folk-rockers
The Weakerthans are the latest musical act to follow in the footsteps of
Hammerfall, Gob, The Tragically Hip and
The Constantines in crafting real curling themes into their music.
The new song
Tournament of Hearts – which can be heard on the band’s
MySpace page – is hard core curling, with its references to “championship banners going yellow on the wall” and “peeling off the (beer) label as they peel the corner guard.” It is, however, a love song... just as
Men With Brooms is really a love story.
Frontman
John K. Samson – throwing a rock with a cool hat above – speaks about curling in
this video mobisode, and in fact quotes from a legendary curling book (anyone recognize the cover? We do).
There are also stories available
from CP and Canuck music mag
Exclaim!, while our good friends at
Chart have a mostly negative
CD review here.
Will the 2008 Tim Hortons Brier committee draft
these proud Winnipeggers into playing a gig at the Keith’s Patch in March?
• Police have already
arrested three people following yesterday afternoon’s suspected arson job on the Windsor Curling Club ...
• Yorkton’s popular stop on the
Asham World Curling Tour has been cancelled for 2007.
“On behalf of the Yorkton Curling Club and the Curling Classic committee, we unfortunately have to announce a one year leave of absence from the PharmaChoice Curling Classic for 2007 due to team scheduling conflicts and other extenuating circumstances that are beyond our control,” committee chair and 1999 Brier semi-finalist
Gerald Shymko told the
Yorkton This Week & Enterprise.
“We will be working hard to alleviate any conflicts for 2008 and will be putting our efforts into making next year's spiel bigger and better than ever.”
The good news is while the eight-year event will be on hiatus, chief sponsor PharmaChoice Western will continue supporting the local curling club.
“We’re not just laying down and letting this go,” Shymko added.
“We’re hoping the scheduling works better where the teams can travel and come back to Yorkton next year. And, we’ll be going all out to get the spiel back into this community.”
• Speaking of
Men With Brooms, here’s what writer/actor/director
Paul Gross is up to these days ...
• Got a suggestion for a podcast guest on
The Curling Show? Just mosey on over to
the Zone and name your name ...
•
Joe Pavia spoke with KMart over the weekend ...
• Finally, the
European Mixed Championships are underway in the Spanish city of Madrid, and local voices are are starting to noice (
here and also
here) ... plus,
Bob Cowan is actually there ...
