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UP FRONT
BY SEE STAFFWest Edmonton Mall's KAOS dance club recently celebrated its first anniversary as one of Canada's biggest nightspots. It was a big happening party, with none of the violence people heard about earlier in the year when Edmonton Police Services rather brashly issued a warning to people who planned to attend the club. KAOS took legal action against the police as a result, a case that has yet to be resolved.
Even though there were no such incidents on KAOS's birthday, the club still managed to rile the cops. Apparently Edmonton's police weren't too pleased with a promotional campaign launched by KAOS. Flyers, announcing the specifics of the party, were placed on the windshields of vehicles in the city - a tried-and-true tactic in the club community. The problem was, they looked an awful lot like City of Edmonton parking tickets. The powers-that-be apparently disapproved.
We won't describe fully how stupid a person would have to be to actually confuse the KAOS flyers for parking tickets. That might insinuate the cops harbor an irrational grudge against KAOS.
Together again?
A surprise was in store for those in attendance at the Sidetrack Café Monday, June 29 for the club's weekly open stage and new music showcase. Tariq, the edgy, folksy singer/songwriter from Calgary, who last year released his first CD for major label EMI, hit the stage with what looked like a new backing band. And that backing band was none other than the original members of Edmonton groove rockers Kissing Ophelia.
Lyle Molzan, Greg Johnson and Ryan Drolet, who have all been busy with various other projects in various other places, came together Monday at the 'track. Could this mean a new plan for Tariq and his new-found stage-mates as the Calgarian looks toward recording the follow-up CD for EMI? We'll have to wait and see.
Thuesen abused
Word is much-maligned radio personality Len Thuesen wasn't pushed off the good ship MIX 96, but was encouraged to jump by MIX management, who wanted to demote Thuesen to mere DJ after 19 years in the program director's chair. Always ready to light a candle rather than curse the dark, E-town's answer to Dick Clark can always pilot his boat toward the A-Channel, where the newly-streamlined Wired is about to start auditioning local scenesters for Kimberley Carroll's old job.
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