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Thanks to JRB from the chatter for this one
Canadian Band Real PuckHeads
Thursday, December 20, 2001 - As the arena lights went down, five Barenaked Ladies sashayed on the ice, and the crowd went wild. Grown men whistled. Young girls shrieked.
The Colorado Avalanche will do anything to keep a streak of 310 sold-out home games alive.
The Barenaked Ladies love hockey players. Hockey players love the Barenaked Ladies.
When we meet hockey players, they all want to be rock musicians. And so many Canadian rockers grow up wanting to be hockey players, said Tyler Stewart, who should know.
Stewart was a hockey player until he became a Barenaked Lady.
The Barenaked Ladies are Canadian pop band with a wicked sense of humor as crooked as a hockey player's nose.
After recording a string of hit songs from "If I Had $1,000,000" to "One Week," the Barenaked Ladies have become the No. 1 U.S. import from north of the border.
From lead singer Steve Page to drummer Stewart, the musical quintet has been on the Top 40 charts more often than Patrick Roy's name has been engraved on the Stanley Cup.
On their way to a concert appearance in Denver tonight, the Barenaked Ladies dressed up in Avalanche sweaters and dropped in on Colorado's game against the Mighty Ducks. They performed the national anthem. Ours, not theirs. The singers didn't miss a note. And they knew all the players without a scorecard.
Patrick R-WAAAAH, Page excitedly screamed, as the Avs were being introduced.
If they had a million dollars, the Barenaked Ladies wouldn't buy a real fur coat. That's cruel. They'd buy season tickets to every hockey team in the NHL. That's cool.
The Barenaked Ladies are puckheads. And proud of it. All the five musicians need for their own team is a goalie.
I think hockey is the most fun sport to watch. It's a beautiful combination of finesse and brutality, Stewart said Wednesday night, as his bandmates warmed up for their one-song gig at the Pepsi Center by turning clothing from their dressing room into goofy hats.
To get exercise between performances, the band members don't run. They skate. It's in the genes.
Those guys have no choice but to love hockey. They're Canadian, Avs defenseman Rob Blake said after Colorado's 2-1 victory.
In Canada, Stewart added, "the three things that everybody talks about are politics, hockey and religion."
In that order? "Hockey might be first," admitted Stewart, who admires the Avalanche, but loves the Maple Leafs best.
Born near Toronto, Stewart pledged allegiance to the Leafs as a child. He has known all-star goalie Curtis Joseph since the ninth grade. Strangely enough, they met on a baseball diamond, not at the blue line.
Stewart was the pitcher. Joseph was the batter. And "Cujo" beat Stewart like a drum. If the pun fits, wear it.
First time I ever saw Joseph, recalled Stewart, "he hit a home run off me. A grand slam."
Stewart didn't get serious about trading in his hockey stick for a drum kit until he was 15 years old. "I was an agitator, sort of like Claude Lemieux, with a lot less talent," said Stewart, a forward who could talk some trash. "Everybody hated my guts on the ice. I was sandpaper to the other team."
And, this season, he finally made the NHL as a musician. The group recorded three tunes for the soundtrack of the EA Sports video game "NHL 2002." In appreciation, the computer programmed all the Ladies into the game's roster of players. Although Stewart is short and a little pudgy, game users can watch a drummer wearing granny glasses deliver a check with the bone-rattling force of Blake.
The Barenaked Ladies, however, have grown into all-stars in all sports. They have been invited to perform at the upcoming Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics.
While Joseph will play for Canada at the Games, the goalie probably wishes he could jam with his buddy Stewart. Because being a Barenaked Lady is a hockey player's secret fantasy. Doubt it? Here's proof:
After finishing an encore at Madison Square Garden one night, the band bounced off the stage to a thumbs-up from Wayne Gretzky.
I've been following you guys for years, Gretzky shouted. "I'm a big fan."
For once, the ever-witty Barenaked Ladies were speechless.
You've been following us? Stewart stammered back at Gretzky. "Who are we? You're the Great One."
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As of 01/05/2002 Disc One is #85 on the Billboard charts
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HEADLINE: Ladies of distinction; Witty Canadian songsmiths never imagined they would release a greatest-hits package
SOURCE: New York Times Special Features
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When singer-guitarists Steven Page and Ed Robertson formed Barenaked Ladies in Toronto, they never imagined that a decade later they'd be releasing a greatest-hits album.
We had no idea we were going to continue doing it, even, Page recalls. "For us, it was a fun trip for a year or so. It was in some ways very folky in its style and in its genesis, two guys singing together with acoustic guitars. We barely had any greater ambitions than that in the very beginning of the band." But as Disc One 1991-2001 shows, the Ladies achieved considerably more. Hooking people with its infectiously melodic songcraft and the good humour and wit implied by the band's name, the quintet was an immediate sensation in its native Canada and gradually built a following in the United States as well. Then came Stunt (1998), a multiplatinum sensation sparked by the lightning-fast verses of One Week, which is currently enjoying a second life in a Mitsubishi commercial.
Maroon (2000) has only sold about half as many copies as Stunt, but Robertson says that he, Page and their bandmates --bassist Jim Creeggan, keyboardist Kevin Hearn and drummer Tyler Stewart -- have nothing to complain about.
Actually, for the first time in my life, in a 13-year career, I don't care anymore, the 31-year-old Robertson says. "I feel really proud of the band right now as performers and writers and the records we make and stuff. I feel like we've made it to all the kind of popular milestones -- we've got Grammy nominations, we sold out Madison Square Garden, we've got multiplatinum records . . . In a lot of ways, it actually released a lot of the pressure.
At this point, he says, "I'm pretty content. I just want to keep working for my own creative interest and writing songs that are rewarding and interesting to me. And I'm really thankful to have a loyal fan base."
Page and Robertson met in 1998 as college students in Scarborough. Having played in their share of hard-rock bands, the two craved something more cerebral and more distinct.
We were really, in some ways, purists about being acoustic -- I think because it wasn't fashionable, the 31-year-old Page recalls. "We didn't want to be roots rock. We wanted something that was acoustic that didn't limit itself stylistically. That was the common thread."
Beginning as street performers, Page and Robertson -- who came up with the name Barenaked Ladies on a lark -- eventually signed up Stewart, Creeggan and his younger brother Andy on keyboards. After they independently released a series of tapes -- including one, The Yellow Tape (1991), that sold 85,000 copies and included early versions of future hits Brian Wilson and Be My Yoko Ono -- the major labels came calling.
Sire Records won the bidding war, signing the Ladies in front of Toronto's City Hall -- chosen because then-mayor June Rowlands had refused to allow the band to perform on city property because she felt the band's name "objectified women."
I think she may have regretted that, Page says dryly.
The Ladies' debut album, Gordon (1993), was a smash in Canada. A subsequent single, If I Had $1,000,000, mentioned Kraft macaroni and cheese and inspired an audience ritual of throwing macaroni at the band at the point when it was mentioned, a practice the group has spent many years discouraging.
Despite the group's acoustic beginnings, Page notes, "we also learned how to be a good rock band" in subsequent releases such as Maybe You Should Drive (1994) and Born on a Pirate Ship (1996).
Meanwhile, the Ladies soldiered though some hard times, including a short-lived schism between Page and Robertson and the 1995 departure of Andy Creeggan, who was replaced by Hearn. Even the band's joy over Stunt's runaway success was tempered by Hearn's near-fatal battle with chronic leukemia, a struggle that largely kept him off the road and out of the band until recording for Maroon began in early 2000.
That was the worst thing that ever happened to us, no question, Robertson says. "We know there was a very real possibility that we could have lost him, which I don't even like to think about. After what he's been through and, vicariously, what we've all been through, right now is pretty rewarding."
Disc One is not entirely retrospective, because it includes four new songs -- among them the upbeat, charged It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland) and the textured, ironic Thanks That Was Fun -- recorded this past summer with Maroon engineer Jim Scott.
Thanks That Was Fun, released as a single, is a bit of a dry-humoured joke directed at the Ladies' fans and at Canadian songstress Sarah McLachlan, who shares a manager with the Ladies.
We bug our manager about the fact Sarah sells more records than us, Page says. "It seems like she has a lot of songs that have the word 'yearning' in them. So as a joke we started (Thanks That Was Fun) with 'I'm yearning . . . ' It sucked, and we wrote a song about it.
It's a bit of a joke for us as well -- it would be the perfect breakup song for the band, but we have no intention of doing that.
In fact, Page and Robertson expect to write and record the next Ladies album next year. They don't necessarily predict a severe change in direction, but do say that Disc One has tidily summed up an era.
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http://www.deanfriedman.com/realaudio/McDonaldsGirlCovers.html
BNL’s and various other groups versions of the song.
Here’s what Dean Friedman (The writer of the song) said about BNL’s version of McDonalds Girl:
In 1992 a then unknown band out of Canada with the unlikely name of Barenaked Ladies recorded a live version of McDonald's Girl which went on to become a regional hit on Toronto's alternative rock radio station CFNY. The rap bridge is their own creation and always makes me laugh. Although the 'Ladies' have never recorded a major label studio version of it, it was always a crowd favorite at their live gigs and MP3 and RealAudio files of their live radio version are floating around on Barenaked Ladies sites all over the net. Maybe one day they'll re-record it and release it as a single, so I can finally buy that riding mower I have my eye on.
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If you go to BestBuy (as well as other major retail stores) you can get a Maroon DVD-Audio disc. From what I can tell it’s the same as the CD except there is a picture for each song that will appear on your screen and the sound is of better quality.
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Thanks to Eds-Plec from the Chatter for this one.
You can buy a video called Barenaked Ladies, The - In America - The Stunt Tour at:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005UQWA/o/qid%3D1010131057/sr%3D8-1/ref%3Dsr%5Faps%5Fv%5F6%5F1/026-2943075-5362068
The price is 12.99(Pounds not dollars) but it won’t be available until March 18,2002. It is in VHS PAL format. I believe that means it can be played on American VCR’s but don’t quote me.
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Terry Mcbride Article:
Looking behind new Barenaked documentary
By PAUL CANTIN
Senior Reporter, JAM! Showbiz
Back when Nettwerk Records boss Terry McBride first signed up to manage Barenaked Ladies, he was scheduled to appear on a panel at Vancouver's MusicWest industry conference.
The group had just completed their third album, 1996's "Born On A Pirate Ship", and were trying to recover from a dramatic career slump that followed their meteoric big-label debut, 1992's "Gordon." Their stature within the music business could not have been any lower.
When he appeared before a panel of music industry figures and media at the music conference, McBride said he was taken aback by the reaction to news that he had assumed management of the group.
People were just taking shots at me, that I was ruining Nettwerk's credibility. How could you do this after breaking Sarah (McLachlan, Nettwerk's cornerstone artist)?, McBride recalls.
I said: People get your heads out of your asses! What is the cornerstone of any career? Songwriting and live performance. (Barenaked Ladies) had that down.
McBride, who manages the group with Pierre Tremblay, said some of what BNL had done up to that point was "a total joke." But the quality of the band's songwriting and live show convinced him they had a future.
I can't make a great songwriter or a great performer. Nobody has got that except the musicians themselves. It is not learned. It is intuitive. And they had that.
Jump ahead five years, and McBride's faith in the band has been amply rewarded. They escaped their faltering success in Canada, achieved a giant hit in the U.S. with their fifth album "Stunt", and look like they will enjoy enduring success.
It's a remarkable comeback story covered by CBC's upcoming "Life And Times" special on the band. The documentary, which airs Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m., captures a behind-the-scenes look at what went into the band's success. How did they make it where so many others have faltered?
McBride said long-term success for Canadian bands still depends on achieving something in the U.S.
A lot of bands become Canada-only. That shortens your life, even if you become the biggest of the biggest, says McBride, whose management and label empire also includes Sum 41, Coldplay, Dido, and up-and-comers Swollen Members and The Be Good Tanyas.
The Hip have become one of the biggest things to ever happen here, yet because they didn't get out of here, it has been on the decline, albeit much, much slower than a lot of other instant careers that have come and gone here, he says.
(BNL) had to go be big somewhere else before anybody would start to give them credit in their home country.
With the release of their new best-of album, "Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits," Barenaked Ladies are about to step back from the limelight for a time. They will perform at the Super Bowl pre-game show and at the upcoming Olympics, but they'll spend most of their time writing a new album, anticipated for April 2003.
Here's what McBride had to say about Barenaked Ladies and making it in the music business.
On his personal view of Barenaked Ladies when he signed on as their manager:
"I had the same point of view of other people: I was sick and tired of them. It had been too much, too fast. (Their label, Warner Music Canada) went five singles into the first album. They burned everyone on it.
There are two things in this business: You can burn a song, (and) people get tired of hearing an actual song. Or you can burn an artist by having consecutive songs that people hear too much of. "
I think MCA has done that with Shaggy. Nobody wants to hear another Shaggy song. They worked five songs from the album (2000's Hot Shot"). Dido is the number one selling artist in the world this year, but there is still a mystery about her. She has not burned out. To me, she is the textbook of how you basically do it. She sold more records than Shaggy, but she is not burned out. Some of her songs have burned out, but she hasn't.
Sarah (McLachlan) hasn't burned out. She came right to the edge of it. But rather than doing a fourth single (from Surfacing"), we walked away from it, and we forced the record label to walk away from it.
"Barenaked Ladies didn't do that on their first album within Canada. As such, they set themselves up for a huge first album, but the inevitable backlash. No matter how good the second album (was), it would not have mattered.
You have got to control it and go long-term. You have got to keep an artist with a cool factor or mystique. You don't need to tell everyone everything. It is not how you create careers. That is how you create hit albums, but not how you create careers. That is something record companies don't understand unless you sit down and have that heart-to-heart with them"". "
On his strategy for getting the band out of the rut they were in at the time:
The band had just finished their third album (Born On A Pirate Ship"). They wanted to go do a six-week promo tour for the album, and then all take time off. I said that is ass-backward. I had never worked with Warner before. I said I needed six months to learn your record company. Why don't you take the time off now?
"When you come back, come back fresh. Come back wanting it. And realize, for the next couple of years, I own your life. That is the only way we are going to make this work, and that is the only way I am going to sign on.
I said at a meeting, we have to do the following. If you don't want to do it, I won't sign on. It is either my way or no way. Because you have to approach this completely different than how you have. We have got one chance to make this work, but it is going to be a 30 month thing. "
And I said we are going to ignore Canada ... They needed to get back to it (in Canada) through osmosis. Not by having it be in front of them, but by hearing about it in the background.
On the upside and downside of the band's humour:
"Why did I buy into this thing? Great songs, great live show. Everything else they had done had sucked.
They were known as a novelty act. How do you get through that? The way you show they are great at what they are doing is to play live. And rather than playing bars for the biggest dollar, which was what they were doing, was, let's do all-agers, radio shows, support slots. And let's go blow people away. ""Who the f--k is this band? Holy s--t!"" "
"Their humour is best used in a live context because their jokes are about something that has happened that day, or something national that everyone gets. When they play live, they are the best entertaining artists around. I'm not saying they are the best live artist, but they are the best entertaining artist. They can turn any situation into people laughing, having a good time, and even people who don't want to like them, walk away grudgingly giving them respect.
They are great live, and to do that, you have got to be a great musician. You have to be able to sing so people go: 'Holy s--t, Steve (Page) has got a great voice'!"" "
On the crisis when keyboardist Kevin Hearn was diagnosed with cancer, just as their 1999 breakthrough album "Stunt" was being released:
I can remember sitting in a hotel bar in New York, after everything had gone down, and we were about to start this album (Stunt"): What the hell are we going to do? That was the most bizarre meeting I have ever had.
They were just devastated. I could come in with an objective view, but they said: 'We have to do this for Kevin ... Kevin worked his ass off.' Quit his other job, bought into the situation when they were at their low, and helped them get it to this situation. This was about delivering for him. It became a cause. In retrospect, it was the best way to deal with it. Wrapping it up and going away, what would that have accomplished? There would have been nothing to come back to for Kevin.
On the group's practice of performing radio shows and private concerts for contest-winners in the U.S., to help them land airplay at key radio stations:
"I see contests of this nature as a chance for a fan to get close to a band, to do a one-on-one thing. Stations love it when an artist does this sort of thing, but it really makes it special for the fans. It is a huge amount of good will. A lot of artists don't take that attitude.
The reason I play that game is I am branding an artist to a station. Top 40 radio just plays the top 40 hits. How do you brand yourself to all the other stations and make yourself a core artist, so they play five or six different songs? That is how you go do it. "
"A lot of people see it about the current single. I see it as branding yourself to a station. Now we have got ourselves in a situation where two stations think they own us. That is a luxury problem. There are artists begging for those problems.
Sometimes they get wicked and a little stressful part of my life. But I would rather have that problem than be calling up people to get them to pay attention"". "
On the ritual of meet-and-greets, where people in each city file past to shake the artist's hands:
"A lot of artists won't do meet-and-greets before a concert. I have Coldplay do it. I have Dido do it. I have Sarah do it. No one is immune to it. Sum 41 does it. It is what you do.
If Garth Brooks can do it, anyone can do it. Put your ego in a bag and leave it on the bus. We work for a living. We are out there eight months a year, doing 80 hour weeks, working. That means you are doing a radio thing. The radio station politics can get ugly, but the fans just want the contest. This is unbelievable to them"". "
On the decision to release a BNL best-of album:
"They have had five albums. I want them to go away and take a year off. They are right on the edge of that burn. They have been going hard and heavy for almost five years now.
They have had three really big singles in that timeframe. I need them to go away. The best way to go away is to do a greatest hits"". "
On the decision to license the group's song "One Week" to Mitsubishi for a car commercial, and "If I Had $1,000,000" to a New York-based lottery:
That was part of the marketing around the greatest hits. Being that I wasn't going to drive a single, how am I supposed to let people know I have got something coming? How am I supposed to connect the dots that the band has done this song and that song? In my mind, it was a very classy way of doing it, and it doesn't burn the band any. (More on: The Barenaked Ladies).
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CBC's upcoming "Life And Times" special on the band airs Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m(it was changed from the 8th at 7pm to the new date and time)
The Bare Naked Truth: The Life & Times of Barenaked Ladies
They are five guys from Scarborough, Ontario who started their musical careers jamming in their parents' rec rooms over a decade ago. Their smart, catchy tunes about suburban teenage life caught the ear of a generation, and today the all grown-up Barenaked Ladies are international pop music stars. The Bare Naked Truth is the revealing story of this unusual journey, featuring intimate access to band members and great music from exclusive concert footage.
Chip away the gloss and you are down to songs and you are down to people who write those songs. That's what the Barenaked Ladies are, says band manager Terry McBride. Funny and poignant, their music is gimmick-free pop at its best. The band's signature tune, "If I had $1000000," has become an anthem for their loyal fans, and still closes their live concerts today.
The Bare Naked Truth follows the band from its early days, when Toronto's mayor banned them from performing at City Hall because the band's name was deemed offensive. It was publicity money couldn't buy, and the Ladies never looked back. A string of popular CD's combined with an aggressive touring schedule has gained the band a loyal following in Canada and the U.S. But as they reached a pinnacle of fame in 1998, keyboard player Kevin Hearn was diagnosed with a life-threatening form of leukemia. Now in remission, Hearn is back with fellow band members Ed Robertson, Steven Page, Jim Creeggan and Tyler Stewart.
Like their fans, the Barenaked Ladies have grown up, and the documentary looks at the new pressures of juggling young families with the demands of rock stardom. To make careers and private lives compatible, a platoon of buses escorts the tours - one for each family. "There was a time when the road was the road and home is home and never the two shall meet," says Steven Page. "You can't survive that way because you end up leading two separate lives." From groupies to Huggies, the band takes success in measured strides, but then isn't that what you'd expect from a bunch of nice, Canadian boys?
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KRAFT DAILY BREAD FEEDBACK FESTIVAL
Canada’s Biggest Musicians Perform for the Hungry;
Tickets on Sale in time for Holiday Gift Giving
Some of Canada’s biggest names in the music industry will help fight hunger in greater Toronto by performing at Daily Bread Food Bank’s first FEEDBACK FESTIVAL on February 7, 2002.
STEVEN PAGE of the Bare Naked Ladies, MOLLY JOHNSON, SARAH HARMER, UNIVERSAL HONEY and many more will take the stage at the Kool Haus to raise funds to help Daily Bread assist low-income households in need of food assistance.
With the holiday season upon us, the FEEDBACK FESTIVAL provides the perfect opportunity for Torontonians to do something special for those in need AND for family and friends. FEEDBACK FESTIVAL tickets make a great holiday gift, and money raised through the concert will help low-income households struggling to meet their food needs.
EVENT: Daily Bread Feedback Festival
DATE: February 7, 2002
TIME: 8pm
LOCATION: Kool Haus, 132 Queen's Quay East www.koolhaus.ca
FEEDBACK FESTIVAL tickets go on sale through TICKETMASTER on Dec. 13th. Prices are $35 (plus taxes and applicable service charges) for general admission. Tax receipts will be issued for a allowable portion for orders placed by phone/online through Ticketmaster.
To order tickets, call Ticketmaster at 416-870-8000,
or order on-line at www.ticketmaster.ca
VIP tickets available at $150
(plus taxes and applicable service charges)
through the Daily Bread Food Bank.
Tel:416-203-0050 x228
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NYC has slowly become one of BNL’s biggest selling areas. It now ranks up there with Buffalo, Boston and most of the Canadian border cities. The reason why???? The NYS lotto theme song is “If I Had A Million Dollars” The song is heard about 20 times a day on the major networks and has sparked increased sales of BNL related items (such as CD’s).
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If anyone watched the Great Guiness Toast you may recognize the guy that was picked to come up on stage and actually do the toast. He won a contest to do it. His name is Shane Nickerson. The reason you may recognize him is because he was a featured extra on an episode of “Friends”. He was on his honeymoon with his wife, in the episode, at the same time Chandler and Monica (C&M) were. They were the couple that was ahead of C&M everytime they went someplace and would always get extra perks which pissed off Monica (such as first class tickets and a suite at the hotel). (Info obtained from BobInBstn at the Barenaked.net bulletin board)
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As of Jan 27 2002 www.brotherscreegan.com is back up and running. If you haven’t checked it out in a while here’s what they have to say: As of 11/2001:
Thanks for tuning in...here’s what’s up with us...album no. 4 is recorded, with mixing still to go...it was recorded at the Tragically Hip’s studio near Kingston, Ontario; mixing with their entourage was a treat...about the music...don’t want to say too much but I’ll say this...if you line all our previous 3 albums up in a line, the fourth is on the same trajectory...I think I love it. So the minute we finish it and press it, we’ll send out a big fat e-mail to all folks on our list (to be on it write to brotherscreeggan@hotmail.com and please mention for which area of the world you want touring info).
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My wife got her new copy of People magazine over the weekend and there is a picture of BNL in it. They have teamed up with Folgers and the Grammy foundation to promote music education.
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The BNL episode of 90210 will be airing on FX next Sunday at 2pm ET. Check your local listings for times in your area.
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This comes from Caliza regarding Barenaked Bash Info.
Just thought I'd relay this info from the Barenaked Bash website, since I know not everyone checks it on a regular basis. Oh, and it says rooms hold 4...I for one would be willing to squeeze 5 or 6 (and taked turns sleeping on the floor...) to save even more money...
If you want to arrange roomies or travel parteners, check out the Bash Website, sections for it have just been added to the message board!
~Catherine
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Date and Location Info:
Some thought we couldn't do it, but we did baby!
The Very First Barenaked Bash will be over the weekend of June 21 to the 23rd in Toronto, Ontario Canada. (Yes, it's Steven Page's birthday weekend, but it was not planned that way - even if I do run SPAZ.)
We will have this event at the Wyndham Bristol Place Hotel near the airport.
Here is their information:
Wyndham Bristol Place Toronto Airport
950 Dixon Road
Toronto, Canada M9W 5N4
Phone: 416-675-9444
Fax: 416-675-4426
When you call to reserve your room, make sure you let them know you are with the "BARENAKED BASH". They will give you the special room rate which is aprox. $130 Canadian Dollars per night. (Hint - rooms can hold 4 so you can split the bill)
The Bash is not in any way responsible for anything lost or stolen at the hotel, or for any costs you may incur due to theft or damage. The cost of the room is not included with registration costs, you have to make these arrangements on your own.
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Check-In Info:
Friday - June 21
Check in starts at 4:00 PM for registered attendees.
Check in will be near the rooms we will have for the Bash. We will have signs pointing you in the right direction. At check in you will recieve and ID Laminate with your picture on it. This will be your ID for the rest of the Bash, and you will need it to get into the events. We will provide Lanyards and take your picture at the table. (bring a prop if you wish for your picture, as long as we can see your face.) Check in will be open all night as well as Saturday and Sunday for those who can't make it right at 4.
Dinner on your own
The Bash is not providing a meal on Friday evening, so that you will have to find on your own. We will provide you with Toronto information and information about what is near by if you wish to use Friday night as a Tour Toronto night.
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Ok...for more info, and to join in the disscussion, or for Bash related questions visit www.barenakedbash.org and check out the message board!
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Old pics of Ed can be found at http://www.fanoguitars.com/ed.html
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If you happen to watch Cartoon network you may have caught a new cartoon called Baby Blues. It’s a cartoon geared more toward adults. The theme music to the cartoon is It's All Been Done by BNL. It runs on Sunday Nights I believe but check your local listings for more info.
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From Stevenpagelover from Barenaked.net bulletin board:
”I don't know how many people can even *obtain* a copy of the Reading Eagle newspaper, but if you can, go do it! The Sunday, Jan. 6th edition, Entertainment section has a big picture of Ed and Steve, smack on the front! It's talking about the newly named Sovereign Center or whatever...but the picture is AWESOME!Just thought PA folks would like to know. “
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BNLENid put a few pics of the band up on the net at http://photos.yahoo.com/hymojam24
Check them out.
