Gord Downie & The Sadies are the coolest. Period.The band is cool, the music is cool, Gord's hat is cool. Gord Downie, on top of being super cool, is the world's biggest ham. On top of singing the rollicking and raucous tunes he is known for, he pretended to shoot hoops, hunt fans with a spear fashioned from his mic stand, and gave Gene Simmons a run for his tongue-sticking-out money. He's the best. I love him.
Pemberton- Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon, for those who don't know, is an electronic musician and composer from Maryland. I did not know who Dan Deacon was, but after last night's show I am diehard fan. I was in my tent when I heard a sound so groovy I had to put on pants (a huge sacrifice, as everyone knows) and wander over to Bass Camp. There he was, evangelical, a soundsmith serving up his digital sermon to the world.He shouted, he implored, he pleaded for peace and love. Anyone else, I would roll my eyes at. But doing it, Dan Deacon seemed so sincere I couldn't fault him for it. During his set, Deacon had everyone put their hands on the head of a complete stranger. He told the audience to visualize the faces of the person or people that they loved the most. Then, instructing the audience to apply intensifying pressure to the head of the person in front of them. he had the audience visualize what they felt most guilty about. Then, he told everyone to release, to put their hands in the air and dance their freedom. The crowd loved it, screaming his name and waving their limbs every which way like raving giraffes. needless to say, the music was incredible, and the light arrangement intense. At the end of his set, Dan Deacon graciously turned the applause to the crew, volunteers and staff of the festival, thanking them for his job. He then left his board, and came down to the floor, speaking with every fan who stayed behind, chatting about their lives and thanking them for enjoying his music. He even gave little old CFUR a station ID. It cannot be emphasized enough how kind, humble, and appreciative Dan Deacon was. Come for the pulsating bass, stay for the great guy who makes it.
Pemberton Music Festival: Day One
Pemberton Music Festival: Day 1
Pemberton, it turns out, is beautiful. It's a strikingly obvious thing to say, but so many festival grounds are not. I arrived wednesday night after a rollicking ride with two ladies I found on Ricky Rides: Pemberton, rather smartly, has a link to the ridesharing service on their website. After the long slog to the campgrounds, I set up my tent next to some kind strangers. Security at Pemberton, as I was relieved to discover, is taken very seriously. Uniformed folks abound on foot, golf cart and horseback. I've been able to leave my tent basically unattended (but for the watchful eye of the friendly gentleman in the golden shorts one site over) for the whole day and nothing has happened. It's a credit to the organizers that I've almost forgotten that I'm here for a music festival. The mountains surrounding the site are so beautiful that I am left feeling like I am simply here to camp out with 15,000 nice people. A wonderful time is being had by all and the festival grounds have not even opened yet.
Tonight's lineup:
5:15pm - 6:00pm
GORD DOWNIE, THE SADIES
7:00pm - 8:15pm
MATT MAYS
9:30pm - 11:00pm
RUCKUS DELUXE
6:00pm - 7:00pm
THE BOOM BOOMS
8:15pm - 9:30pm
BLUE SKY BLACK DEATH
5:15pm - 6:00pm
BREAK SCIENCE
7:00pm - 8:15pm
DAN DEACON
9:30pm - 10:30p
And here are some gratuitous site photos. 
Rock & Roll This Saturday Night (July 20th)
Hello,
what's this?
A new music venue exists in town!
Let's check it out this Saturday night (July 19th) for ZERO dollars! That's right, absolutely free.
Hosted by 
's metal guru ZINA
of In The Moshpit fame!
Drink specials, appy specials.
1165 5th Ave - Upstairs in the Lounge above Papa Yianni's
Sorta Fancy Soulful Dinner when it is Suppertime this week!
Welp I got fancy this week with some white wine and chicken and mushrooms. So fancy this dinner has serenade potential. The mashed potatoes and this playlist bring this back down to earth and make everything cozy and comfortable.
Chicken
1 lb sliced mushrooms
White Wine
Veg or Chicken Stock
Fresh Thyme
Garlic
Butter Flour
- Over medium heat, brown chicken in a frying pan on all sides
- Pop in oven at 350 to finish off
- Now make a sauce and mushrooms! Add a good nob or two of butter and mushrooms
- Sautee 5 min till mushrooms are getting soft
- Add about 1 tbs flour, stir
- Add ½ cup of white wine
- Stir for a minute, add a clove of garlic, add a sprig or two of fresh thyme
- Add ½ cup of stock and let simmer and reduce over medium heat
- Remove garlic and thyme stick
- Take out chicken from oven , garnish with sauce and fresh thyme
- Serve with potatoes or whatever you shall fancy
A little playlist:
Otis Redding – I love You More Than Words Can Say
The Chantrelles – Ooh Wee
Al Green – Love And Happiness
The Dears – Never Destroy Us
The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin
Leonard Cohen – I Left A Women Waiting
The Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes
Blue – To The End
Crazytown – Butterfly ( Palate cleanser nock your sexy socks off)
John Lee Hooker - I Want to Talk About You
Caribou – Irene
Queens Of The Stone Age – Make It Wit Chu
CFUR T-Shirts and Bumper Stickers Now For Sale!
You asked, we answered! CFUR now has t-shirts available for sale! Here's the skinny: they're twenty dollars, and available at the CFUR office (room 6-354 in the NUGSS building at UNBC) or at Home Sweet Home Grocery, on 3rd avenue in Prince George. CFUR takes cash and credit, and Home Sweet Home accepts cash, credit, and debit. They're available in Unisex sizes Small to XXLarge, and in Women's sizes Small-Large. Unisex comes in a grey-periwinkle blue, and dark grey. Women's shirts come in red and dark grey.
All shirts feature our awesome new logo, designed by awesome superstar volunteers Travis Holmes and Eric WB: contact CFUR for their info if you want a design job done well. We got these shirts made by local superstar company Up the Creek, and would definitely recommend their services to anyone looking for diligent customer service and quality work.
We've also got bumper stickers available for $2!
Come and get them, CFUR!
Sweet Summer Sponge Cake Jams - because its Suppertime!
To celebrate summer solstice I made a classic sponge cake and strawberries to accompany some sweet chilllaxin summer tunes. This cake is a very basic recipe yaa.
4 eggs
1 cup flour, sifted a lot
1 cup sugar
pinch of salt
juice and grated rind of half a lemon
- beat eggs until lemon coloured and thick and frothy
- slowly add sugar and beat with sugar for 10 minutes
- fold in flour and salt
- fold in lemon juice and lemon rind
- bake at 350 until golden and toothpick comes out clean - 25-35 min depending on your oven
- serve with whip cream and berries
A soothed out summer play list:
Sparklehorse - Comfort Me
Cousins - Thunder
Blue Hawaii - Belize
The Mountain Goats - Pale Green Things
Spaceman 3 - So Hot (Wash away all of my tears)
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 ( palate cleanser)
Neko Case - In California
Cibelle - Green Grass
The Flaming Lips - Sunship balloons
Sparklehorse - Junebug
Sparklehorse - Sunshine
Gale Garnett - We'll Sing in The Sunshine
HAPPY SUMMER TIME PEOPLE!!
Interview: Alex Hwang of Run River North
Run River North is a rad little indie outfit based out of Los Angeles. They're going on tour with Boy & Bear in October, and have just put out a new self-titled album! Formerly known as Monsters Calling Home, Run River North is one to watch. I spoke with member Alex Hwang about their album, their tour, vinyl as climbing motivation, and why English accents are like push up bras.
Hit the link below to listen on mixcloud!
http://www.mixcloud.com/jamteezy/interview-alex-hwang-of-run-river-north/
Pemberton Music Festival: July 16-20th
If you're not going to Pemberton, then you should. There'll be lots of music, and music is good.
This is what Dr. Seuss would have to say about British Columbia's best indie music festival, happening from July 16th-20th in the pristine Pemberton Valley. Specifically, the good music is a lineup that features, among others:
NINE INCH NAILS OUTKAST DEADMAU5 SOUNDGARDEN FRANK OCEAN KENDRICK LAMAR METRIC MODEST MOUSE SNOOP DOGG ABOVE & BEYOND EMPIRE OF THE SUN GRIMES THE FLAMING LIPS YOUNG THE GIANT BLONDIE CAGE THE ELEPHANT GIRL TALK TV ON THE RADIO ST. VINCENT VIOLENT FEMMES CHANCE THE RAPPER MATTHEW GOOD RANDY NEWMAN REBELUTION SCHOOLBOY Q TYLER, THE CREATOR EARL SWEATSHIRT GORD DOWNIE, THE SADIES MINUS THE BEAR THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS SLOAN STARS BEST COAST DINOSAUR JR. FLYING LOTUS FOXYGEN HAYDEN RL GRIME ARAABMUZIK DELTA RAE FUCKED UP GRIZ HEY ROSETTA! XXYYXX DAN DEACON LETTUCE METZ RICH AUCOIN TREASURE FINGERS WILD BELLE YUKON BLONDE It's going to be awesome.
CFUR will be bringing you ongoing coverage throughout the whole festival, writing posts, tweets and taking photos of the proceedings. We'll also be getting interviews, station IDs, and sampling different kinds of street meat, for your complete festival up-to-the-minute overview of the situation (AKA, what google says is a synonym for "coverage"). It'll feel like you're there. Hopefully you will be there.