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David Dalton

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Sep 28, 2009, 10:16:57 PM9/28/09
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:40:22 -0230, David Dalton <dal...@nfld.com>
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>On the weekend I went to a fair bit of the 5th Rock Can Roll
>Festival (see http://www.rockcanrollrecords.com ).
>On Friday I caught the triple bill of Lizband, Dogmeat BBQ
>and At Ship's End at The Ship. On Saturday I went to the
>rock and roll cabaret This Is Distorted at Distortion and
>then I went to Erin's to hear Connemara. I meant to go
>back to Distortion to hear The Black Bags and then to The
>Ship to hear The Pathological Lovers but I ended up staying
>at Erin's instead. Then last night I went to the buffet supper,
>mini-conference, awards show, and music at The Ship. During
>the awards show Gerard Van something

Gerard Van Herk

>, Jenny Naish and
>Jody Richardson played solo, and then after the awards show
>Mercy the Sexton did a set to close the festival. They were
>quite tight, and included Phil Churchill and Geraldine Hollett of
>the folk band The Once plus lead guitarist Brad Power and
>a drummer and two brothers who played keyboard and
>rhythm guitar/lead vocals. I'll definitely try to catch them again
>though I don't rate them as high as Lizband.
>
>Anyway the festival was a good time and I would recommend it
>to anyone who likes rock and roll.
>
>David

David Dalton

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Sep 28, 2009, 10:10:22 PM9/28/09
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On the weekend I went to a fair bit of the 5th Rock Can Roll
Festival (see http://www.rockcanrollrecords.com ).
On Friday I caught the triple bill of Lizband, Dogmeat BBQ
and At Ship's End at The Ship. On Saturday I went to the
rock and roll cabaret This Is Distorted at Distortion and
then I went to Erin's to hear Connemara. I meant to go
back to Distortion to hear The Black Bags and then to The
Ship to hear The Pathological Lovers but I ended up staying
at Erin's instead. Then last night I went to the buffet supper,
mini-conference, awards show, and music at The Ship. During
the awards show Gerard Van something, Jenny Naish and

David Dalton

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Sep 30, 2009, 10:20:37 PM9/30/09
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I forgot to mention that the festival took place in
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.

DD

David Dalton

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Oct 5, 2009, 9:45:39 PM10/5/09
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:04:03 -0230, David Dalton <dal...@nfld.com>
wrote:

>On the weekend I went to a fair bit of the 5th Rock Can Roll
>Records Festival (see http://www.rockcanrollrecords.com ).

They are starting an archiving project so if you are local and
have old band posters or audio or video contact them. They
also welcome volunteers, even to do some scanning on their
scanner.

DD

David Dalton

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Oct 7, 2009, 11:39:41 PM10/7/09
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On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:15:39 -0230, David Dalton <dal...@nfld.com>
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Some of the archiving so far is at
http://stjohnspunkrockarchives.blogspot.com .

David

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