On The Verge - Episode 21 - Shotgun Jimmie
On The Verge - Episode 21 - Shotgun Jimmie
Saturday 03 April 2010 - Total Running Time::13:56 m/s
Fazal Meets up with Shotgun Jimmie and Ian from Attack in Black to chat about Shot Gun Jimmie's latest release, Still Jimmie.
Mixing a charmingly lo-fi approach with a knack for quirky, hook ridden songwriting, The Onlys (Delorean Recordings, 2009), was Shotgun Jimmie's first solo outing after the demise of his band, Shotgun & Jaybird. The album quickly found an audience, as it spent several weeks in the top ten of the National Earshot campus radio charts and saw the single "Bedhead" championed by CBC Radio 3. Exclaim! said of the disc, "The Onlys is lo-fi gold, mixing smart stream-of-conscious lyricism with flashes of broke down musical skill." Not only embraced by the media though, The Onlys also found its way into the hands of Welland, Ontario's, Attack in Black.
Instantly won over by the album, the band invited Jimmie on their upcoming National tour. Leading up to the dates, the two acts regularly performed together with Attack in Black acting as Jimmie's backing band. Their musical bond was immediate. Jimmie's songs took on new dimensions with the four piece's instrumental prowess and well honed sensibilities. Following the completion of the tour, the acts decided to document the chemistry they had developed, and set out to record in Attack in Black's home studio.
The resulting, Still Jimmie, shifts from Shotgun Jimmie's playful approach on The Onlys to a darker and more direct, rock record. "Mind Crumb" starts with urgent guitars and crashing drums, only to drift into a winding Neil Young-esque haze of guitar squalls. "Used Parts" is ramshackle pop craftsmanship at its best, as hooks come and go seemingly without effort. The rest of Still Jimmie manages to balance songs as opposed as "Louis Depson" and"Dawson City" without ever straying from a core sound.
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On the Verge is NUTV's music show. Fazal Hamid interviews bands touring through Calgary from Canada, the USA and abroad. On The Verge is written and hosted by Fazal Hamid. The show is shot at various locations around Calgary, Canada including Broken City and the Hifi club and at the NUTV studios at the University of Calgary.
Episode Guide
Season 1
Episode 21
Shotgun Jimmie
Fazal Meets up with Shotgun Jimmie and Ian from Attack in Black to chat about Shot Gun Jimmie's latest release, Still Jimmie.
Episode 20
Bloc Party
Fazal meets up with Matt and Gordon from Bloc Party to chat about the bands latest album, Intimacy
Episode 19
Sleepy Sun
On The Verge meets up with Sleepy Sun to chat about the band and the weirdness of Santa Cruz
Episode 17
The Stills
With 3 albums under their belt, 2 Juno nominations, tours with the ranks of Ratatat, Interpol, Sam Roberts, Kings Of Leon (to name a few), the band The Stills have established quite the name for themselves.
Episode 16
City Of Noise
On The Verge meets up with Mitch Barany to chat about the making of the video "city of noise".
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