Bob Dylan, Ani DiFranco, Run DMC, Neil Young, KRS ONE, Henry Rollins, REM, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Nirvana, Kool Moe Dee, Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Cash, hippie chicks
Formed in an abandoned building in Chicago, August 2003, Tons of Fun University is one of the premier North American groups to combine spoken word and music. Having performed at nearly every major folk festival in Canada, T.O.F.U. is a trio unlike any other. They are a live act that will entertain audiences of all ages and origins, while making them think.
The Vancouver Sun calls them: "Whip smart, wildly rhythmic and hilarious."
Together, they seek a certain standard and magic on stage, yet they hold the same expectations of themselves when touring solo.
Shane Koyczan is the 2000 National Poetry Slam Individual Champion, and has published poetry with House of Parlance in Vancouver, B.C. He is from Yellowknife, NWT.
C.R. Avery has toured all over Europe, the U.S. and Canada, and is a world class, unparalleled beatbox-harmonicist/singer-songwriter. He is from Kingston, Ontario.
Mike McGee is the 2003 National Poetry Slam Individual Champion and the 2006 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion, the first person ever to hold both titles. He is from San Jose, California.
T.O.F.U. has shared stages with That 1 Guy, Corb Lund, Feist, U. Utah Philips, Ani DiFranco, Maya Angelou, Tom Waits, K'naan, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Viggo Mortensen, and nearly every contemporary spoken word artist working in North America.
Tons of Fun University was the breakout hit of the 2004 Vancouver Folk Music Festival, 2005 Regina Folk Fest, and 2005 Dawson City Music Festival, 2006 Winnipeg Folk Music Festival, 2007 Folk On The Rocks, and they have been featured on CBC Radio and Television many times over.
Sundown Lounge is a laid back (and often explicit, you bet your ass...) weekly podzine of music, spoken word, progressive politics, weird science, and occasional vignettes from the west coast open mic scene, etc. Physically, I'm in rapidly gentrifying downtown Los Angeles, but metaphysically, my toes are in the sand and the sun is ablaze with deep hues, and a few poets and musicians and scientists have dropped by my beach house to hang out and jam, as the surf whispers nearby...The Open Mic Stage accepts spoken word and music files for play. Hear "A True Liberator: on Friday's Archived Podcast.
http://www.larrywinfield.com/sundownlounge.htm
Other news and goings on: 10K is accpeting submissions from poets to feature in our BLOG. If this is of interest to you, please send your poem in as a comment, in the form, with title, author, etc. We will do the rest.
Hey it's Winnipeg-Darcy. Saw you guys at like 2 in the afternoon the other week. Lyrically hillarious and musically innovative. I'm just in a "conventional" rock band type thing right now, but if youever want to double-bill-it-up in Dub-city...
you guys are were so awesome at folk on the rocks you made politics sound good. Keep doing what your doing and hope you come back up north sometime soon.
Man, it's been 3 months since you guys played folk on the rocks and I still can't get over you guys. Keep it up, I think your words and your music is amazing!
Seasoned, cut into cubes, adjacent to assort. veggies, bagged, & fried, sopping up beans with tomato sauce, or live on any festival circuit, circulating as so many busser's in the beer garden, TOFU can stay for grace, in Winnipeg, and well into the morning, let the jugglers stack the plates, JG
hey i just wanted to thank the three poets, musicians, and friends for the wicked times in the small town of pen. well it shall be fun to see you again soon. take care guys
hey fam
this weekend's (05.19.07)
FREE 3rd Saturdays Open Mic Slam has moved
*FROM* The ARTS at Marks Garage - 1159 Nuuanu & Pauahi @ 3:30pm
*TO* The Honolulu Children's Music & Literature Festival @ Honolulu Hale - 530 S King St (look for the YSH tent) @ 4pm
we'll also have YSH cds and chapbooks for sale
as a fundraiser to help send this years YSH team to Youth Nationals
in the Bay Area
Hey There! Just stoppin' by to see how you've been. Sorry for bein' out of touch, but we've been out on the road promotin' the new record. It's available on our website now too, so if you're diggin' the tunes, stop by www.factandfictionmusic.com and snatch one up. We're also helpin' Right Guard to promote a new product of theirs, so check us out on their page at www.rgxlife.com/music/ . I hope all is well and I'll talk to ya soon!
Tracks from our album "Falling Up" are now available for purchase on myspace.
Come by and say hey!
Also, visit our myspace or website to check our tour schedule for this Spring and Summer. We'll be hittin' up Colorado, Cali, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Kansas, and more!!!
Gurpreet Singh Rai aka Saffron Poet aka Lion Rai, will be on Desi Radio at approx 4.20pm today so if you can spare the time and would like to catch some early words from his nearly finished 'Vaisakhi Poetry Book', please tune in simply by clicking or inserting this url below into your address bar.
http://www.txradica.net/tune.php?c=desi&.wvx
Also if your in the UK and have a radio device, tune into 1602am and you can listen in also.
Feel free to call or email into the show and tell the people what YOU as an individual think and feel about what you will hear.
Call The Studio: 020 8574 1313
Email The Studio: info@desiradio.org.uk
Thankyou and Happy Vaisakhi
If your into poetry and music and use myspace or just want to have a look at what I'm about, feel free to check out my pages:
Strictly Poetry its: www.myspace.com/saffronpoet
And for experimental type of sounds with 'Spoken Word and Beats' its www.myspace.com/lionrai
Peace out for now!
As always feedback will be reacted to via replies and appreciated very much!
But if your a person of limited words :) I won't take your silence as a means or reason for violence!
holy shiznit dawg i just tried one of those ring tone sites advertised everywhere and they really do work...i got some crystal clear ring tones for my phone instantly. i am talking about some cadillac quality here! you just gotta see for yourself, just copy and paste this site in your browser: http://www.ring932.com
holy shiznit dawg i just tried one of those ring tone sites advertised everywhere and they really do work...i got some crystal clear ring tones for my phone instantly. i am talking about some cadillac quality here! you just gotta see for yourself, just copy and paste this site in your browser: http://www.ring932.com
What happened? Do you remember back in the days when you went into record shops and bought vinyl? And chilled there for an hour or so! Talking to your friends and the people who worked there. What happened????
Standing in line by the record players, waiting for your turn, and taking a peak over the shoulder of the person listening, to see what they are listening to;-) I really miss those days’s man. And on the way home sitting on the train pulling out the new records to check them out!!!!! WOW those days where beautiful. Now a day’s people don’t even know what a record cover looks like!!! And hardly know more than 2 tracks off an album because it’s the hit single that plays on MTV!!! All I can say is its a pity....
