> From: bob <segarini@sympatico.ca>
> Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:09:01 -0500
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: OT - Canadians
> 
>  our midwest is full of farmers,a couple'a cities, and land
> lots o land.

Firstly, I just wanted to thank Michael Coxe for the work he does for this
list.

I agree with a lot of what you say about Canada, Bob. The midwest has three
provinces which have about 4 or 5 million people with about a 50/50 split of
urban and rural. There are 5 cities with populations of 250,000 to 800,000
and a bunch of smaller cities with 20,000 to 100,000.....The weather has
been brutal here lately with as cold as minus 40 temperatures and wind
chills making it feel like 60 below at times. This midwest of Canada has one
of the most extreme climates in the world, often reaching summer
temperatures of 90 to 100 or more F.

As far as music is concered in Canada, there is everything here but the mass
marketed stuff tends to be a little different than in America because of our
Cancon regulation which controls and makes sure there is strong Canadian
content. Jaimie has spoken about this. We have bands that sell large numbers
of units-sometimes a million or more- but who are virtually unknown in the
rest of the world.....Personally, I find our best music is not always well
known by Canadians as it lives on the fringes where our major labels do not
care to look. I guess in that respect we are similar to the U.S.

>I'm sorry I missed it.  How was their performance?
What did they play?

The Wondermints played "Shine on", the 3rd track from the new album. It was
fine. Craig Kilborn said the L.A. times loved the new album. Was there a
review of the "Mind of we make love to you" CD there?

I looked up the Neilsen ratings for the Craig Kilborn show and, from what I
could find, it appears it gets about a 2.0 or so rating which would
translate to about 2 million viewers. Is this the biggest audience The
Wondermints have ever had for a live performance of their own music?

Mike V.