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Though Montreal and other provinces boasted their quotient, Canadian punk’s twin poles were Vancouver and Toronto. The entire nation’s spiritual equivalent of the Stooges or Velvet Underground has to be Hamilton, Ontario’s avant-garage unit Simply Saucer. Began in 1972 by enigmatic singer/guitarist Edgar Breau, they oozed a loud, rowdy mishmash of the Stooges and such latter-day electro-psych outfits as Hawkwind via such charmingly titled angular riff explosions with power electronics as “Bullet Proof Nothing” and “Dance The Mutation.” They lasted long enough to slot into late ‘70s Toronto punk bills, a demo session cut with future
U2 megaproducer Daniel Lanois and his brother Bill eventually forming a chunk of posthumous release
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Bufford’s revue deftly mingles anthems and anecdotes. She also plays with genre expectations, and turns a few old songs inside-out so you’ll hear them in a new way. She notes that, “The proof of a good song is you can bend it and it still won’t break.”
Bufford kicks off Act I with “Everything Old is New Again,” (1974) and dials the clock back to the dawn of the 20th century to prove how flexible the old songs can be. She dusts off chestnuts like “Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey?” (1902) and traces the drunkard’s walk of its origin.
Inside the exclusive Highlands members’ club where billionaires go to get away from it all
If 2020 taught us one thing, it s that a remote retreat is practically priceless - and if it s a lavish Scottish castle, even better
Skibo Castle, home to The Carnegie Club
Credit: The Carnegie Club - Chris Close
It’s late afternoon on a blustery Halloween in the Highlands, and I’m enjoying the soporific crackle of an open fire, about to tuck into a second round of cucumber finger sandwiches. A family sweeps in bubbling with nervous excitement, having been chased by witches and ghouls on the dusk ‘ghost walk’ taking place in the castle grounds outside.