As a Coney Hatch fan from waaaaay back, it was a privilege for me to host Coney singer and bassist Andy Curran this week. The band has released their new live record, Coney Hatch Live at the El Mocambo, recorded in October 2020 at the historic Toronto venue. 

Andy has some tremendous rock stories, and he shares many of them with me in this episode – playing tennis on the road with Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris and getting pelted with cutlery on stage opening up for Judas Priest among them. You don’t want to miss this.       

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Since its inception, Heavy Metal has spawned a countless number of subgenres. Death Metal is one of them, and in the early 1990s Norwegian Death Metal became more than just a musical subgenre. It developed into a violent, deeply sinister belief system. 

In this episode of No Sleep ’til Sudbury, we examine the dark origins and horrifying transgressions associated with the genre – Satanism, murder and corpse mutilation, church burnings, and the disturbing extremism of Norwegian Black Metal’s purveyors. 

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Longtime NSTS listeners know that I love speaking with up-and-coming musical talent on the show. And I anticipate that country singer songwriter Nelson Sobral will be a well-known name fairly soon.   

Nelson’s imaginative with the instrumentation he utilizes in his country-inflected material, a nod to his sophisticated musical tastes – something he credits to his mother. We talk Crowes, Otis Redding, The Ronettes, Howling Wolf….and we see things very, very similarly. 

Sobral’s playlist (available in Spotify):

The Ronettes – Be My Baby

The Black Crowes – Sting Me

Willie Nelson – Can I Sleep in Your Arms

Otis Redding – I Love You More Than Words Can Say

Howlin’ Wolf – 300 lbs of Joy

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This week on NSTS I welcome back one of the industry’s ‘good guys’, Jitters frontman Blair Packham. Blair is a friend and it’s always a pleasure to have him on the show. 

In addition to chatting about the new record he’s currently working on and his skin-vibrating songs, we also discuss how his dad inadvertently named his last record, the interesting story behind how Blair became acquainted with Crowded House’s Temple of Low Men record, what Malcolm Gladwell sees him as, and how he really feels about Elvis Costello’s lyrical cleverness. 

Packham’s playlist (available in Spotify):

Ron Sexsmith – Speaking With The Angel

Elvis Costello – Shipbuilding

Tom Petty – Dreamville

Crowded House – I Feel Possessed

John Legend – Everybody Knows

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