Hail The Villain spreads evil to Windsor
By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
January 30, 2008
Hail The Villain has been compared to Billy Talent, Disturbed, and Rise Against, but the four-piece from Oshawa, ON are so much more. Fuelled by an intense stage presence along with a true team dynamic and songs that will haunt you, Hail The Villain proves to be one of the most unique and innovative bands to come out of Ontario in a long time.
The band, consisting of vocalist Bryan Crouch, guitarist Joseph Stamp, bassist Chad Taylor, and drummer Drew Dockrill, were first known as Fahrenheit. The name change to Hail The Villain came suddenly while the band was in Vancouver preparing for a radio interview. “We had to change the name right before the interview that day,” recalls Crouch. “Hail The Villain” was the first name that Crouch brought up and the one the band ended up sticking with. “It suits the direction we were going,” says Crouch. “[Fahrenheit] wasn’t suiting the evilness we were trying to get across.” >>
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School of Music celebrates Windsor's musical talents
By Cristina Naccarato
Lance Writer
January 30, 2008
The twelfth annual Windsor Canadian Music Festival is an exciting time for our city. The festival, celebrating contemporary Canadian composers, brings a sense of pride and positivity to our city and surrounding areas. The University of Windsor’s School of Music along with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra have been collaborating together to showcase Windsor’s local talents, and also to bring a bit of music to all of our lives. The interesting aspect of this festival, as marketing and publishing coordinator of the School of Music, Susan McKee points out, is how dynamic and cutting edge the pieces featured this year will be. “Not only is it interesting, but it’s also very challenging because the composers need works for more of an orchestra size performance that has an arrangement of instruments, and then also for the faculty concert which is more chamber with less instruments.” >>
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Between nature and art
By Burton Taylor
Lance Writer
January 30, 2008
“…[Linnaeus] systematized his great work, Systema Naturae…The last category—Litteraria—was for everything that couldn’t be systematized,” said artist and poet Susan Gold to a rapt audience in a lecture at her current exhibition, Applied Science. It is an exhibition that investigates what happened to our scientific world-view when Litteraria—everything that cannot be systematized—is dropped off the page.
Gold, born in Detroit but now a Canadian, is a member of the University of Windsor’s Visual Arts faculty and has been an active artist for decades. She has had exhibitions at Galleries such as the Natural History Museum in London and numerous others both locally and in Europe. Her inspiration for this exhibition is in natural history collections found in Canada and Europe and the work of Linnaeus. >>
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