Bidiniband releases “In the Rock Hall” inspired by Paul Quarrington
December 21, 2011
Dave Bidini, the Canadian rock hero’s Bidiniband is releasing their album In the Rock Hall on January 24 via Pheromone Recordings.
According to a press release, the LP is an “expressive, white-hot rock’n'roll statement” with lyrical concerns that include “pirates, war, dating, travel, the Smurfs, engines, the waterways, and movie-making.”
In the Rock Hall gets its name from a poem by late writer Paul Quarrington, which you can read here on Pau;’s website (http://www.paulquarrington.org/friends/78/moving-stories-in-winnipeg/). See a live version of the title track with Dave Bidini and Porkbelly Futures when they toured across the country in 2010 with the screening tour of “Paul Quarrington Life in Music” >> here … http://youtu.be/22y0Xhpo-3I
Bidiniband will be promoting the album with a smattering of shows in Canada’s eastern half. For the official CD release show on January 28 at Toronto’s Dakota Tavern, they will offer “surprise guests, noisemakers, amp throwing, squirrel-toss, balloon drinking, dart poker and underwear bingo. And, one really good drum solo.”
See the full schedule and the complete article PLUS plus download a track from the release on Exclaim! Magazine website … http://exclaim.ca/News/dave_bidinis_bidiniband_preps_in_rock_hall -
Bidiniband Tour dates – lots more on Dave’s website too >> http://davebidini.ca/
1/26 Hamilton, ON – Casbah Lounge
1/27 Toronto, ON - Toronto Reference Library
1/27 St. Catharines, ON – The Merchant Ale House
1/28 Toronto, ON – The Dakota Tavern (release show)
2/7 Halifax, ON – Carleton *
2/9 Charlottetown, PE – Stolen from a Hockey Card Show
2/19 Toronto, ON – Harbourfront Skate Festival
Quarrington`s THE SONGS makes Top 25 Singer-Songwriter Playlist
March 7, 2011
Paul Quarrington – The Songs, from record label Cordova Bay has made the Top 25 of Vancouver`s CFRO 102.7 ‘WHAT THE FOLK’ playlist, under the banner of Singer/Songwriter for February 2011. Paul visited Vancouver many times during his lifetime in music, with the bands Porkbelly Futures, Joe Hall and the Continental Drift, doing solo gigs and doing performances he called `Words and Music,`where he would both sing from his own repertoire and read from his literature. His music joins that of Bob Dylan, Stan Rogers (Paul played StanFest on his East Coast Tour 2009), Sarah Harmer, Anne Lindsay and 24 others. Thank you listeners on the left coast!
The Paul Quarrington Radio Show, His Voice, Legacy and Future
January 17, 2011
Tune in to JazzFM on Sunday, Jan 23, at 10:30pm for a half-hour radio show dedicated to Paul Quarrington, hosted by Porkbelly Futures bandmate and lifelong friend Martin Worthy; to continue to commemorate Paul`s ongoing legacy on the anniversary of his passing. With live music and stage tributes drawn from live event celebrations of PQ produced in 2009-10, including Jim Cuddy, Gordon Pinsent, and Tony and Joel Quarrington. PLUS Sharon Riley and Faith Chorale as featured in the film Paul Quarrington Life in Music, AND never-before-heard PQ performance from the Porkbellys private recording library.
