Episodes 11 and 12. Good Grief - its an even dozen now! Episode 11 is all about Karen Dalton and we have a performance of Katie Cruel by HMHFAS, and Episode 12 is about the Cameron Public House, Handsome Ned and the great Ned song Steel Rail Blue. Check it out on the tube of you.
Here's the link to the channel (its on our home page too!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjAcj81GRqWRoyzo--cnnOA/
Here they are :
holy schmoley - 2 more episodes of the EBS...
9 digs into the gruesome tale of the 2 sisters with an actual performance by HMHFAS for ya
10 sets the way back machine to 1982 and we see what's going on in Rock'a'Billy world until Herald Nix comes to down and burns our playhouse down.
Episode 8 is out and its a good one. A new smash folk rock much music video by the Parkdale branch of He Mistook Her For A Swan kicks it off! Then we get into the meaning of life via Open D tuning believe it or not. In our stream of consciousness travels I we touch on Elmore James, Jelly Roll Morton, Elizabeth Cotton, Calgary Glam in the 70's, Johnny Lovesin and more!
Here's the link::
Here's the link to the channel:
HMHFAS Emergency Broadcasting System Channel
as you can see - we're still called UCjA81 blah blah blah instead of something normal cause we dont have 100 subscribers. HELP! Call your uncle - get him to subscribe....
Hope you're all well, safe and sane and not in jail. Love hearing from you so feel free to reach out any time.
hi everyone,
happy Victoria day, happy Wreckless Eric's birthday, happy National Cheese Soufle day! Today I'm off on a bit of a tangent talking about the Viletones, punk rock, rock'a'billy, Gang of Four and Elizabeth Cotton.
Hope everyone is doing well and hanging in there. We've got a bunch of stuff in the works for next week but in the meantime check out Episode 7!
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Dont forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Let us know how you're doing - always great to hear from everyone!
Here's the link:
And here's a few other interesting things for you if you're bored:
hi Everyone,
here's the new episode of the Emergency Broadcast System. Thanks to everyone who is keeping in touch and everyone who has subscribed to the YouTube Channel! If you haven't subscribed yet please do. Hope everyone is safe and sane and not in jail!
This week I'm taking a dive into the strange and mysterious song Nottamun Town. I've added out latest recording of that song at the end of the video as well so be sure to check that out. I wanna hear what you think.
Here's the link:
https://youtu.be/F3ykXg6aGk4
Other cool stuff this week:
New song by Nick Cave!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc7mDChiiNU
Keep well everyone - its going to stop snowing one day! Keep in touch!
Steve
hi everyone,
Hope everyone is safe and well and staying out of jail. We've posted a new Episode today on National Paranormal day so appropriately we talk about some ghostly stuff like the song Polly Vaughn which is where we got out name. Also the Rime of the Ancient Mariner believe it or not. And we round it off with a beautiful video and song by our friend and collaborator Brian and as if that wasnt enough - we've got Screamin Sam on the singing saw on that song! Dont forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Check it out:
Emergency Broadcasting System - Episode 5
Here's a couple of other links if you're interested:
Polly Vaughn by Anne Briggs
Anne Briggs - singing Polly Vaughn
The Big Read - Ancient Mariner
https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/readings
keep safe, keep sane, keep on rockin in the free(ish) world
hey there people - hope everyone is keeping sane and healthy. I think the first may be harder than the second.... Anyway, we are trying to set up a regular series of YouTube videos to reach out to you all and let you know what's going on, maybe give you a little music and some useful information like how to find some great funny cat videos. In my new incarnation as VJ - I'll be posting short (I'll try to keep them to around 10 minutes) You Tube posts on our new channel. Hope you find them amusing, infuriating or at least something. You can find our You Tube Channel Here:
Meanwhile, across the viaduct at Broadview and Danforth, The Old Nick Pub has been hosting a cool program of local musicians in their Revolution Music Mondays series. Each Monday a different artist is presented and this month the host is Maria Ryan. There have been some amazing artists there over the past few months and we're super excited to be asked to participate this month on Monday March 23. I know it's a school night but Its an early show - so help shake off the weekend with us at the Old NIck! Maria kicks off the show at 7:30 and HMHFAS will be on around 8:30.
OK - so after over a year of preaching the gospel of Jackson C Frank, it seems like someone is listening. I saw the blockbuster 'The Joker' the other day and was astounded to hear about 20 seconds of JCF's 'Carnival' in the film. What a sad and beautiful treat! The song fit perfectly into the movie theme and although we only got a snippet of the whole song, the title was referenced in the dialogue as well. Check it out:
Jackson C Frank - the Joker - Carnival
and yeah - watch the movie too - its great.
we're honoured to be invited back to play at Bill Heffernan's Saturday Sessions at the Intersteer on Roncesvalles! The show runs from 5 to 8 and the Intersteer is at 357 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto. Its always a good time and of course Bill will be singing a few of his own tunes as well so make sure you get there early to catch him as well.
