| This year Music Waste was faced with the tough decision of actually having to choose a mere 80 + bands from the hundreds of enthusiastic applicants. Over previous years the festival had grown in popularity to the point where, in 1997, 280 bands performed at the event. The reduced number of acts does not imply reduced quality in applicants; au contraire mon frere, the artists seem to get better as time progresses. However, to preserve the sanity of our organizers, the clubs and the bands themselves, we had to 'get real' with the work load and cut down the chaos. As the Music Waste infrastructure grows, so again will the number of artists we are able to present. Thanks to all applicants, successful or not. We hope that we are able to get to those we missed this year in 1999. The following is the current list of the lucky winners of this year's race for stage space. All of these artists are independent, hard working and talented. We like them. That's why they are playing the festival. The genres of music represented in the list run the gamut from Folk and Jazz artistes, butt kicking Hard Core and Rock bands, Techno, Industrial etc. We feel that this is our most diverse line-up to date. Hope you like it. Our apologies to the missing bands... |
| Clicking on the 'Grid' label next to a band will bring you to the correct horizontal row in The Grid, which lists the all gigs by venue, date and time. The band name should be on the first line of text shown in the frame (though you may have to scroll left-to-right to find it). |
| Clicking on the 'Link' label next to a band will give a link (in pink or red) to the band website, or e-mail (in green in Netscape, pink otherwise) if they have no website. If they have neither, then I say: come on guys, this is the 90's, for a year or so longer... so get with the program, and get off the glue! (Editor's note: Sorry about that. Our WebMaster is not a technology elitist, he just plays one on the Internet.) |
| A Month of Sundays | Grid | |
| Adam Woodall | Grid | |
| Auburn | Grid | |
| Automatic Slim | Grid | |
| Barbarash | Grid | |
| The Beauticians | Grid | |
| BeeKeepers | Grid | Link |
| Bertram Scott | Grid | |
| Big Cookie Hot Funk, Rock, Fusion and etc. performed and produced to a tee. Originally from Calgary, these guys have been a going concern in Canadian clubs for about six years. Tours to support their new album 'Golden Hips' will take them through West Coast USA and the Czech Republic within the next six months. | Grid | Link |
| Big Tall Garden Ultra tight 3 piece mixing up Hard Rock, Funk and Acoustic with a flare for intelligent, socially conscious lyrics. The band recently delivered its third release which was produced with GGGarth Richardson of Rage Against The Machine / Red Hot Chili Peppers fame. | Grid | |
| Big Yellow Taxi | Grid | |
| Bill's Psychotic Mother A tasteful blend of High Tech and Heavy Metal boasting a brand new CD entitled 'Meat To Please You' that blows almost any major release of a similar nature this year. | Grid | Link |
| Black Belt Jones | Grid | |
| BMX BMX cite such diverse influences as the Beach Boys and Hank Williams. Their debut CD, 'Starliner', displays this diversity and a knack for Classic Rock and edgy Country with an obvious penchant for Neil Young and his ilk. | Grid | |
| Bocephus King | Grid | |
| Bored of Authority | Grid | |
| Broken Record Chamber Self described as free improv for robots, this band presents visions from the dark side in a sometimes ambient, sometimes dub and sometimes entirely different kind of way. | Grid | |
| Browning | Grid | |
| Close Captioned Radio This popular local quartet create momentous dynamics the likes of Archers of Loaf and Drive Like Jehu. Employing infectious tempo changes and dizzying mood shifts to harvest an emotional field of intensity, they have been intriguing audiences all over town and are fully capable of institionalizing the weak-willed. (The band's new cd 'Slang-X Generator' is now available on Brickyard Records.) | Grid | |
| Clover Honey Three gals playing straight up pop that appears to be in the tradition of the Garage and early Pop Punk varieties. Their self titled 4 song cassette EP has been getting play on a number of college radio stations. | Grid | Link |
| The Clumsy Lovers | Grid | |
| The Cowards | Grid | |
| Cozy Bones | Grid | |
| Creature from a Faster Planet Rock hard 5 piece band comprised of ex members of Mushroom Trail, Upper Levels and Extortion. Known to write "Songs for the extremist..." | Grid | Link |
| Cystem | Grid | |
| The Disgusteens | Grid | |
| DJ Mark One | Grid | |
| Dog Eat Dogma | Grid | |
| DSK | Grid | |
| Dustbunny | Grid | |
| Dyck/Monroe/Baird is an improvising trio made up of some of Vancouver's finest musicians. | Grid | |
| The Elastic Livestock Young, earth lovin' musicians from Mission, BC that combine a variety of Roots/Cultural musics with trippy psychedelic sounds and a lot of improvisation. Fans of hand drums take note. | Grid | |
| Evan Symons Symons bypasses current trends preferring to take his leads from past Prog rock and some future point and place. Every element of his career is DIY and his unique world and musical views kick the listener at every turn. | Grid | Link |
| Feedbag A veritable army of bass guitar indulgence. Not all the tunes feature the three-bassist approach to Metal but the ones that do blaze with Jazz and Funk riffs. Totally tight and techno free Hard Rock. | Grid | Link |
| Forecasts Farewell Young, mostly instrumental, 4-piece ambient art-rock band with smooth, sleepy guitar bits backed up by a bit of dub bass, some quiet keyboards and odd live drum beats. | Grid | |
| The Fray | Grid | |
| FryerTuck | Grid | |
| Glenn Garinther | Grid | |
| Glimmer | Grid | |
| God Awakens Petrified | Grid | |
| Gorehounds | Grid | |
| Gradient Profile Heavy, processed guitars backed with thunderous mechano drums. This band rides the tide between Metal, Techno and Ambient acid warp. | Grid | |
| GreenRoom It's a FUNK EMERGENCY! For a funky time, call GreenRoom, and let the funk be with you. Make my funk the G-Funk. Yeah! | Grid | |
| Hip Hop Mechanix | Grid | |
| Hissy Fit Grrrl driven punk with buzz-saw guitars and (often) raging vocals not dissimilar to such U.S. bands as Jack Off Jill or 2 1/2 Girls. Their debut ep 'For the Boys' is a must have for fans of the genre. | Grid | Link |
| Hounds of Buskerville Butt mobilizing ska that guarantees a full dance floor and a Pork-Pie Hat or two. | Grid | |
| Inner Fix | Grid | |
| Jen Paches Ms. Paches is an ivory damaging diva playing an eclectic set which can range from Classical meets Weil, to Prog Rock, Cabaret and Hillbilly. Her performances are an emotionally charged, multidisciplined, sight to behold. | Grid | |
| Jesse's Girl Ex-Chickenhawk guitarist Dingo kickin' out the rock riffage. JG are featured on the recent compilation from Bridge Burner Records. | Grid | |
| Jet Set High volume, hard partying, headbanging, hormone overdosing Rock and Roll fun. | Grid | |
| Libeatos | Grid | |
| Liplickers | Grid | |
| Liquid Amber Sincere dynamic Hard Rock fronted by Singer/Songwriter/Bassist Andrea Hector. Liquid Amber's debut CD, BREED, received media kudos and radio play across the nation. | Grid | Link |
| Little Gorphin Annie Formed nearly seven years ago, LGA boasts a catalogue of about 80 songs ranging from Celtic Rock riffs to Groovin' Jazz Fusion. Whatever influences they pull out of their hat they are always dance floor filling high energy Roots Rock. | Grid | |
| Macleod 9 Montreal based singer, songwriter, actor, playwright and internationally acclaimed painter. An original acoustic solo set. | Grid | |
| Malchicks | Grid | |
| Mark Nodwell Quintet This band plays entirely original compositions featuring extended forms interactive improvisations and odd meter groove. | Grid | |
| Max n Russ Electronic composer Max Arnason of Low Noise and Technicians of the Sacred, a guy named Russ, digital support, analogue support and a variety of other toys. | Grid | |
| Mortal Engine | Grid | |
| Mother Trucker Another fine contributor to the Bridge Burner compilation. Hard driving bar chords with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek Metal licks and Rock cliché. | Grid | |
| Motorama A multi-faceted co-ed 3-piece, meshing powerful guitar/bass and unique rolling drums with loops and samples. Dynamic vocal changes go from laid back texan-influenced drawls to emotive screams of frustration. Their recording, despite its lofty melodic moments, is consistently as abrasive as the West Hastings alley jamspace they call home. | Grid | |
| Pepper Sands Smart, sassy, imaginative Rock music. "By turns whimsical, quizzical, hypnotic and magnetic". | Grid | Link |
| Pet Fairies Mostly discordant politi-core with interesting influences from various points on the musical map and a press sheet that suspiciously reveals precious little about their past or future. | Grid | Link |
| Quave Spacey and ambient electronic music enhanced with warm vocals and serious lyric all created by one Kym Brown. A CD entitled 'Zoomfly' will be hitting the shelves in short order. | Grid | |
| Quonset | Grid | |
| Radiogram | Grid | |
| Raft of Medusa Aggressive Hard Rock with grooves poking out of every corner. The addition of clay flutes and other wind instruments adds another interesting dimension to an already quirky new band. | Grid | Link |
| Reflector takes a free approach to the art of improvising and composing. The members use a small outline of harmonic and melodic material as a platform to explore anything they want, together as unit. No setlists or premeditated thought are used, just sound created and delivered at the moment. | Grid | |
| Revulva | Grid | |
| Rich Hope | Grid | |
| Roach "We like to call the stuff we do 'CROMAGNON POP!' We presently are using guitars, bass and A big honkin' Djembe drum, and a crash cymbal that our drummer smacks with hands in our lineup! It's also describeable as quirky pop stuff, and we're on the rockin' rod label out of Saskatoon, Sask." | Grid | Link |
| Royal Grand Prix | Grid | |
| the Rubber Maids (now known as 'Stuck Up Marys') A female Folk duo with socially aware lyrics and clear, strong vocals backed by gentle and intriguing guitar arrangements. | Grid | Link |
| Satina Saturnina We've seen this Wellington, New Zealand band described as: "Warped Cabaret Art Punk Balladery from the Weird End of the Windy City." and "An Island of Strange Soul Music for the Wired and Weird." Their CD, 'Clitoris Goddess', does not belie the description. | Grid | |
| Satsuma | Grid | |
| Saturnhead Hook laden Lo-Fi with Beatlesque harmonies, janglin' geetars and beauteous keyboards. Their debut album, "Arizona's Thin Mistake" has been raved throughout the country while labels in Japan and Australia are releasing limited edition vinyl of the band. | Grid | Link |
| Scale | Grid | |
| Sean O'Keefe | Grid | |
| Sex in Sweden Rock, hard and humorous. Sex in Sweden have been referred to as "High Octane Stuff" in local newspapers and by gas jockeys everywhere. | Grid | Link |
| Shag57 Loud 3-piece dirge. Somber, powerful slowhand Hard Rock. | Grid | |
| Shattered | Grid | |
| SMAK Jazz, Rock, Rap, Hip-hop high energy Fusion groove. Smak simply rock the house. Their most recent album 'A Higher State of Cluelessness' has become legendary as an example of how a bunch of young Jazz students can reinvent pop music on their own terms. Highly original and a damn good time. | Grid | |
| Solarbaby Intelligent lyrics, cover art and song smithery. Solarbaby's debut, 'The Power of Negative Prayer', is among the best Canadian indy releases of 1998. | Grid | Link |
| Soressa Gardner Had a tough week? A bad day? Come drown your sorrows in a drink and let us lighten your mood with songs about other peoples bad days... Acoustic guitar, intelligent lyrics, beautiful melodies. | Grid | Link |
| Space Kid Melodic Pop with simple, straight-up playing and some exceptionally sweet harmonizing. | Grid | Link |
| Special Guests | Grid | |
| Speedbore A 3-piece that take music bordering Hard Core and infuse it with a touch of Reggae and Ska. The result has a tendency to inspire even the toughest audience to move. | Grid | |
| Splitting Adam Pure pop structures performed with finesse and sincerity. As The Other Press so eloquently put it: "... more hooks than a pirate convention..." | Grid | Link |
| Strong Like Tractor Original Tractor Brothers Lewis Tractor and Morrison Tractor replaced some other Tractors with Willy Tractor (ex-Sleeve) and Wilson Tractor (Another Joe). Less than a year ago they released the debut CD of their multi hybrid Hard Rock entitled 'The Savage Sound'. A new EP entitled "What doesn't kill you" will appear on the near horizon. | Grid | Link |
| Stuck Up Marys (formerly known as 'the Rubber Maids') see entry for 'the Rubber Maids' | Grid | |
| Surface Tension | Grid | |
| Swank O'Hara Swings between Beatles melodies and squeaky clean guitars to distorted modern rock techniques. | Grid | Link |
| Taste of Joy | Grid | |
| Ten Days Late Possibly the best all woman band to come out of the Canadian West Coast since The Dish Rags hit the road nearly twenty years ago. Ten Days Late are seasoned veterans of the stage and recording studio that lay to waste most bands in their ball park. | Grid | Link |
| Tendonitis The band's press sheet says it best: "... completely uninterested in verses, choruses and bridges, but rather minor scales, endless time changes, little or no repetitions and a flow that keeps you guessing what's coming next." | Grid | |
| Thermos A brand spankin' new and mysterious Vancouver group lead by the inimitable Annie Wilkinson, former bass/vocals for such notable locals as Knock Down Ginger and Zolty Cracker. | Grid | |
| Third Eye Tribe Without question one of the most interesting groups performing Dance music in Canada. Jacob Cino writes riffs to Hip-Hop, Jungle, Dub and World Rhythms taking it to the club and street in a way that makes any audience from Folkies to Punks to Ravers lose themselves to the groove. | Grid | |
| Threat from Outer Space Bass heavy electronic combining Hip Hop, Hard Rock and Funk. | Grid | Link |
| Tiefisher | Grid | |
| Tippy Agogo Practitioner of as many kinds of music as there are styles to choose from, Agogo's 'full-on' approach to life and performance can click on anything from a Folk Fest to an H.C. gig and up the other side of World/Dance/Jungle etc. Solo or with a band, it's all space travel. | Grid | |
| Tom Harrison | Grid | |
| Travis Baker Trio | Grid | |
| Treecrusher Fluid chording and vocals reminiscent of the Doughboys, Descendants and a touch of Husker Du. Definitely a pit heater-upper. | Grid | |
| Triskellion | Grid | |
| Tugboat Clean, open chords are front and centre accented with simple lead guitar, a fully functional rhythm section and expressive vocals relaying storyline lyrics. | Grid | |
| Willy Kreuger | Grid | |
| WoW The most recent creation of Vancouver staple Doug Deep (aka Doug Milledge). Doug is known throughout a healthy chunk of the World as the guy who toured solo as support act for the Jim Rose Circus Side Show and a number of other projects. WOW is a costumed, co-ed, Pop oriented power house with a Theremin twinkling at the fore. | Grid | |
| Zolty After a decade of touring Canada, U.S.A. and Europe with Zolty Cracker, Gilles Zolty is back with a variation on the band name and some special new twists. The new Zolty is at least as intense as the Cracker with a fresh and altered perspective through the eyes and soul of the enigmatic bundle fun known as Gilles. | Grid |
| NOTE TO BANDS: If your band does not have a description here, it means that there was no promo kit in your application, and/or your demo tape was 'simply undescribable', or we just ran out of time. If you want, send a description of your own design to our WebMaster and he will put it in for you. Also, if your band has a website or email link you want adding, you can send that to the WebMaster, along with a small bribe (five colorful words should do it). |
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