SOME WICKED: Dashiell Brown's Blog

Here is Part 1 of this segment.

During the first break of the night, I’m talking with Tom Power, host of Deep Roots every Saturday on CBCradio2, great show by the way, and without warning the next act begins when an intense man creeps up and hunches intently over the microphone like he’s ready to eat and attack it and his eyes burn a mark right on you—whoah, he’s intense, the “hunchback” of George St. United Church. I later learn his name is Jody Richardson, lead singer and guitarist of The Pathological Lovers, who often indulge in avant-garde improvisational mayhem at Night Music, a once-a-month showcase of unusual and unique talent, including a spontaneous jam session collective where musicians can get up to the stage with their instruments and jam in between sets. It’s every third Thursday at The Ship down on Duckworth Street—I would go but my radio show unfortunately conflicts with it right now.

And so Jody howls into the microphone in pitches all across the frequency spectrum, ripping his electro-acoustic apart like it was made of thin paper, and his gleaming white teeth shine at you like a beacon breaking through the fog, hunched over that microphone, daring you to move. Intense stuff, and then you have Alex poised on the drums anticipating Jody’s moves, and they start “talking” to each other back and forth with their instruments, they’re on the exact same page, and we’re bolted to the pews here, reading every word. I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t look away lest I miss something, I don’t know—seminal. Because that’s what these dudes seem to be about, and that’s what this whole show has been for me: seminal.

Here is my podcast with Jody Richardson.

And now intermission…

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