GUH
WAVELENGTH #25
JULY 30 - 11PM
GUH defies description. Forget labels like "jazz" or "classical," it's dubious if they're even a "band" or an "orchestra" - or just "a bunch of really smart guys with wicked senses of humour who get together to make crazy music". They've confounded Jonny Dovercourt since 1992, and one day he decided that turnabout was fairplay...
JD: GUH = Noun, verb, adjective, adverb?
Brian Cram: An exclamation. An imperative. A guttural. A vibration from
deepest down.
Blake Howard: Quit speaking the English language to me.
Do you plan on tearing down nice old neighbourhoods to build GUHdominiums?
Brian: We don't tear things down, we just lose things. Old neighbourhoods
account for half our performances... from one in Etenhiem Germany, to Hamid's
on Draper St. here in Toronto, to Darlene's living room on Hornby Island.
Old neighbourhoods don't need changing.
Blake: No I don't plan on doing that. Someone else will take care of that. I
don't like GUHdominiums.
Have GUH Family allegiances switched from KOS to the Paddock?
Brian: In the ring Nick (KOS) could take Ken and Tom. No question. Only an
underdog lover would switch allegiances.
Blake: No. The Paddock has offered us a place to play on Mondays (as Bug
Nite - nit-picking ed.), but GUH people can be seen at KOS with Nick.
Describe the aftermath of a hypothetical GUH in-store performance at Chapters.
Brian: The two remaining listeners would be applauded by the band. Then we'd
take them to a bar because we need beer. Then they'd probably get fired and
have to go back to writing music.
Blake: A lot of people taken into the staff room and put back together again
'cause they would have fallen down the escalator hurrying to the Internet
port to search for they music they're hearing.
Will every man, woman and mutant ever know the truth about GUH?
Brian: Anyone who has had (an infectious) belly laugh, anyone who has
experienced the ecstasy of finding your way after being lost, or anyone
who's got off on pushing around the little guy, or anyone who has sank their
toes into the hot guck of a sulphur spring, knows...
Blake: Yes they will know the truth about GUH.