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The Fighting Hellfish - For The Love Of Lucille

"For the Love of Lucille" is a charity that was started in September of 2001, a few months after Lucille Smith passed away after a 7 year battle with breast cancer.

The charity has raised funds in two different ways. The first is through the auction of quilts made by her best friend Margaret Lapenski and her sister Rita Shedden. The rest of the contributions are made through a biannual benefit social featuring The Fighting Hellfish. These benefits are a great party with fantastic prizes and silent auction items ( and of course, the best band in the city). Check HERE for upcoming dates. You really should not miss it.

Together, "For the Love of Lucille" has raised over $90,000.00 for CancerCare Manitoba and the Victoria General Hospital. All of the money raised for CancerCare Manitoba goes towards "Quality of Life " programs under the guidance of Jill Taylor-Brown.

What does that really mean? The funding mainly goes to support great programs such as "Kids can Cope", an ART THERAPY and a YOGA THERAPY program. It is all done in an effort to help people with cancer cope in an extremely challenging time. These programs are completely run from donations. For the Love of Lucille is responsible for 50% of Art and Yoga and 100% of Kids can Cope.

The Misfits

THE MISFITS
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
THE PYRAMID CABARET
EARLY SHOW Doors 7:00pm - Showtime 8:00pm
Tickets: $29.50 Advance / $35 Door
Available at: Online presale at www.hightideconcerts.net (August 10th-30th), After August 30th, Soul Survivors 118B Osborn St. and www.hightideconcerts.net

The Misfits websites: www.misfits.com & www.myspace.com/themisfits

From the hell they came… 30 years ago in a small town in New Jersey called Lodi. It was there, at the dawn of the punk movement in April 1977, that the Misfits were born. Taking for their name the title of Marilyn Monroe's final movie, they set out to make an impression. They wound up making history and creating a legacy which has withstood the test of time. Today, boasting a massive catalog of music old and new, a new lineup and an influence felt around the world, the Misfits are generating more interest than ever before.

Thirty years on, the Misfits have endured hardcore’s heyday as punk rock’s monster squad, a band whose cult following – a pseudo-secret coven known as the Fiend Club – inspired them to continue to write, record and tour. These “Fiends” (as their fans are known), which are still multiplying globally, go back now several generations and also includes many artists. In fact, bands across the spectrum of rock have offered their tribute by covering the band’s material, including Guns ‘n Roses, with the classic Misfits song "Attitude;" My Chemical Romance who revisited the classic “Astro Zombies” for the soundtrack to “Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland” video game; Hatebreed with their namesake song “Hate Breeders” on their upcoming Fall 2008 release “For The Lions” and Metallica who covered no less than three Misfits songs on their double CD set "Garage Days Revisited," while hailing the band as a key influence on their music. A tribute album entitled VIOLENT WORLD featured the likes of Prong, NOFX and Sick of It All.

Aside from an inventive approach to music and its intense and extraordinary visual presentation, the Misfits’ all-encompassing and fierce DIY mentality continues to drive their efforts. From their compound in the far reaches of North Jersey, which includes a family owned machine shop and appropriately enough a knife factory, they craft their own instruments – from their guitars, amps and drums - down to the studded leather straps and even their spiked leather jackets. Creativity rules as they design and construct their own elaborate stage sets and wide array of infamous props.

The Misfits have been preserved on determination bound by unequaled loyalty to their fiends and the sheer will to survive. "Its been over 30 years and 30 years from now, people will still be playing our albums because we will never water down what we do,” Only says. “Our goal is to keep perspective on who we are and always stay true to ourselves. Our next album will only reinforce how potent the band has become with time. We plan to continue as always, to eclipse the past, block the sun and drag humanity by the throat into a world of darkness filled with ghouls, goblins and creatures of the night, where we are king."

One thing is certain, The Misfits are here to stay and once again, every day is Halloween.

Rev Theory

REV THEORY

with
Social Code
Armchair Cynics
Lucid
Ticket $15 + tax in advance @ Ticketmaster, Kustom Kulture,
Into The Music and Hungover Empire
$18 + tax @ the door.

Watch a Rev Theory Video HERE!

The Bouncing Souls

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You can count the number of bands who've stayed together for 20 years on two hands, and you can use just one to count those who've consistently released quality material for two decades. This year, The Bouncing Souls enter that esteemed category, and in keeping with their D.I.Y. roots, they've done it without major labels, corporate radio, MTV, or teen magazine pinups.

Picture it: 1989, a Knights of Columbus Hall in Bernardsville, New Jersey. A supportive music-loving teacher throws down $120 to cover expenses.

But the Souls' story actually begins a few years earlier than that historic gig. "Pete [Steinkopf] and Bryan [Kienlen] had a cover band called The Switch around '86 and '87," recalls frontman Greg Attonito. The band was largely booked at parties teeming with college chicks and kegstands, and occasionally, their friend Attonito would join in to channel his inner Roger Daltrey or Billy Idol.

"Then we started another band called Brad Karma and the Absent Minded Fruit Bats," says guitarist Steinkopf. "There was one song that we had called 'Quest For Goodie' and Greg would jump around and sing all kinds of crazy shit to it off the top of his head. We were all teenagers growing up in the suburbs, just looking to create our own fun."

Though it wasn't until 1995 that the band was able to tour on a full-time basis, they soon found the road to be a more frequent home than the comfort of their own beds. From headlining tiny rooms in remote towns to playing Wembley Arena with Green Day and Tokyo's Budokan with My Chemical Romance to spending time on seven different editions of Vans Warped Tour (totalling 11 months, with more sure to come), The Bouncing Souls have clocked more travel time than most airline pilots.

Since 1996, the band has had a constant traveling companion and honorary fifth member - their primary touring vehicle, lovingly called The White Castle. For ten years, she gave dutiful service, until The Gold Tour, when her engine gave out - with 300,000 miles on the odometer. Regarding her decade of service before temporary retirement (the proceeds from that tour are rebuilding the old gal's guts), Attonito says, "We converted those miles into road hours. Estimating about 40 MPH - because a lot of them aren't highway miles, with plenty of time sitting in traffic - it was staggering. Our estimate rounded out to 333.33 days driving in our truck! No exaggeration: that's about a full year!"

THE BOUNCING SOULS OFFICIAL WEBSITE

Hugh Cornwell

Hugh Cornwell is one of the UK's finest song-writing talents and accomplished live performers. The original guitarist, singer and main songwriter in The Stranglers enjoyed massive UK and European success with ten hit albums and twenty-one top forty singles in the 17-year period he was in the band. The Stranglers etched themselves into the UK's musical psyche with 'Peaches', 'No More Heroes', 'Golden Brown', 'Always The Sun', 'Grip', 'Nice N Sleazy', 'Duchess', 'Walk On By', 'Strange Little Girl' and 'Skin Deep'.

Cornwell has revelled in his musical freedom ever since a sold out Stranglers gig at London's Alexandra Palace in the summer of 1990, when he announced he would be leaving the group.

He has released seven solo albums, Wolf (1988) Wired (1993) Guilty (1997) Hifi (2001) Beyond Elysian Fields (2004) Footprints in the Desert (2005) Dirty Dozen (2006) and three collaborations, Nosferatu (1979) featuring Robert Williams, CCW (1992) featuring Roger Cook and Andy West and Sons Of Shiva (2002) featuring Sex W Johnston.

The Stranglers' most successful song, Golden Brown, featured on the soundtrack to Guy Ritchie's Hollywood blockbuster Snatch; whilst Peaches was used as the opening sequence of the hit film Sexy Beast as well as in a Nike TV ad for 2002's Football World Cup. Cornwell has completed his new album Hooverdam and first film Blueprint in Toerag Studios with producer Liam Watson (White Stripes 'Elephant').

Hooverdam available worldwide as a FREE download www.hooverdamdownload.com