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2009-06-30T06:19:00.003-04:00

Great to see so many out at Tribeca in Halifax for The True Love Rules show with Charles' new band , The Lodge ( Mike O' Neil , Gliff Gibb , Andrew Glencross ) . Drew Yamada made it back in town from NB just in time for a few tunes with the TLR's , including the Super Friendz ' Little Things ' .

2009-02-11T21:06:00.001-05:00

2009-01-11T20:22:00.003-05:00

THE SUPER FRIENDZ

Live at Tribeca , Halifax , Friday , Jan .30th ,

AND Saturday , Jan. 31 , 9:30 pm sharp .

$12 It's a small venue ,better get there early .

2008-07-14T07:26:00.000-04:00

the last time the Super Friendz passed> through Vancouver was last November when they were on tour with Al> Tuck and No Action. Both bands opened up for Pluto at the Starfish> Room, and the crowd just didn't seem to be happenin' for the bands> this> evening. I couldn't figure out why. The bands put on a good show and> poured out their wares dripping with talent. Like I said, I couldn't> figure it> out...until now. According to The Super Friendz, Al Tuck's road> manager> found a bright orange wicker monkey in a haunted house they were> staying at in Ottawa. The first night in Montreal they had all of> their stuff> stolen and then they almost went off the road in their van....> Singer/bass> player, Charles Austin, confirms that "[the monkey] must have been> cursed" because Al took the monkey on the road with them and nothing> seemed to go right.. Geez, you'd think they'd have learned a lesson> from> Homer Simpson when he bought a cursed monkey paw. >

2008-05-05T11:50:00.000-04:00

Happy Birthday Matt Murphy .

2008-05-05T11:45:00.004-04:00

It's an ALL-Drummer solo Super Friendz night .... Dave Marsh and The True Love Rules , @ Tribeca , Granville St ., Halifax , Thursday May 8 , 10 pm ...

also on the bill for a rare Hallifax appearance will be Lonnie James ..

2008-04-04T09:33:00.002-04:00

monday and tuesday night were productive in producing a nearly finished version of the new tune ,Wide Boy . It's a stomping foray of black humour and reverb sure to please .

Drew is off to gay Paree with Jenn for a well deserved holiday .

2008-02-01T22:13:00.001-05:00

2008-01-30T15:52:00.000-05:00

The Super Friendz have been hard at it recording new material over the last two days . Major progress was made on two new tunes and then all agreed it was time to go home to cocoa and thence to bed .

2008-01-10T21:43:00.000-05:00

New year , new hopes .

The Super Friendz may / could / plan to / meet up in the studio at the end of January and put the finishing touches on the long in the works follow up to LOVE ENERGY .

Three Super Friendz hold their tongues on the welcome Matt .

2007-08-09T23:47:00.000-04:00

Dave and Drew take a walk down tin pan alley , ie: Marsh's record , this past week .

In the race for release dates you'll likely hear more SuperFriendz on this lil project than the Chinese Democracy - like Mick , Mojo , McGuinty and Skunk .

2007-06-13T20:18:00.000-04:00

Congratulations DOCTOR DREW YAMADA !
Finally . A physician with hands as warm as his heart . Expect any future SUPERFRIENDZ gigs to include the odd country club .
Otherwise not much to report on the new 'dinx ' album ( rumoured to be tittled Mick , Mojo , McGuinty and Skunk ) . Dave is killing time and a couple of grand working with Charles in the Ultramagnetic environment of the ' mullet ' studio . Matt is hard at work in the salt mine called Toronto and promises time off in July to tie up this recording .

2007-03-13T22:36:00.000-04:00

Super Friendz around the world ; Drew in New Zealand , Dave in Australia . Meet Chuck and Matt in Hawaii and bang ! ...pacific rim shot .

2007-01-20T21:03:00.000-05:00

The recording of the opus continues ... taking a while , it's like Groundhog Day or something .

And where is Murphy ? Making tea for Sarika Sehgal no doubt .

2006-11-05T18:34:00.000-05:00

Matt tracking some git .

2006-10-31T20:04:00.000-05:00

Recording new album

@ the New Mullet

2006-08-28T20:43:00.000-04:00

Charles putting the finishing touches on his new studio in Halifax .

2006-03-24T15:54:00.000-05:00

Dalhousie University

pics Greg Baller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2neGGmdqHY

2006-03-24T15:33:00.000-05:00

more Dal gig pics

2006-03-13T21:06:00.000-05:00

Well , a stellar night all round saturday at the Grawood . The superfriendz torn it up old guy style with the authority only a gig every two or three years can command . Drew debuted his insta -classic Puttin' the Squeeze on Kenny to universal acclaim . Matt brought his A game with that git- playing -like -ringing- a -bell of his . Charles was his Bootsy Collins self , and Dave , we are reliably informed , turned in a gig that would best be desribed by Matt Mays as ' per yoush ' . Many old schoolies were in attendance , mingling politely with the real schoolies . The Self Conscious were wicked good , as were Great Plains . Here are some good pics courtesy of Mr.Greg ' blackout 77 ' Baller .

2006-03-08T16:58:00.000-05:00

The superfriendz
live at the Graywood , Dalhousie

Sat .March 11th ,late .

special guests The Self Conscious and Great Plains

2006-02-28T23:46:00.000-05:00

www.superfriendz.com coming soon . It's currently some dorment underground

Philadelphia rave hotspot but we might pony up the dough .

2006-02-28T23:34:00.000-05:00

Check out Matt in Toronto this weekend when he performs with Rick Of The Skins at the Comfort Zone .

2006-02-11T21:31:00.000-05:00

New sessions heating up with a tribute to Mr. Harry Belafonte

photo Greg Baller

2006-02-03T20:14:00.000-05:00

Day 7

can't get enough of that edge detection

2006-01-27T23:42:00.000-05:00

Day 1

2006-01-16T16:08:00.000-05:00

The SuperFriendz will be in the studio late January to record a NEW RECORD !

2005-12-28T12:42:00.000-05:00

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2005-12-18T21:24:00.000-05:00

Chuck ;

getting ready for some new stuff ?

2005-12-12T21:40:00.000-05:00

Charles Austin

,furrier...

photo M. McAvoy

2005-11-30T11:37:00.000-05:00

SuperFriendz the attic

photo ; Aaron Muise

2005-11-27T14:23:00.000-05:00

Matt fly fishing on the Black Brook , Pictou county .

CHARLES...nuff said

2005-11-19T23:36:00.000-05:00

2005-11-18T21:26:00.000-05:00

Matt as Guy Terrifico on a telephone pole .

2005-11-18T21:19:00.000-05:00

By JENNIE PUNTER When Guy Terrifico premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Tex., earlier this year, many wondered why they'd never heard of the "Canadian legend" (at one point in Guy's story, he wears a Canadian flag like a cape and swings from the Buckingham Palace gates, hollering "I'm a national treasure"). Still others wanted to know where they could buy his music (in fact, now they can — the soundtrack, which includes several beautiful "Terrifico originals" co-written by director Michael Mabbott and musician Matt Murphy, who plays Guy, hits the shelves next week).
Adding to the mild but enthusiastic confusion in Austin, country-music outlaw legend Kris Kristofferson — who is also an actor and plays himself in Guy Terrifico — made a significant appearance in another popular SXSW film, Be Here to Love Me, Margaret Brown's exquisite documentary about the influential Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt.
(Are you still with me?) Kristofferson's "performances" in both films—sharing stories about the fictional Terrifico and the real Van Zandt, contemporaries (so to speak) and both substance-abusing artists with metaphorical horseshoes up their asses and nooses around their necks — are equally intimate, poignant and revealing. You may assume one performance is margarine and the other is butter; the reason you can't tell them apart is because they come from the same truthful place.
The secret of Guy Terrifico's success (it shared the CITY-TV award for best Canadian first feature at the Toronto International Film Festival in September) is that part of its development process, before shooting began, was very much like that of many documentaries. The filmmaker gains the trust of someone from the inner circle, a gatekeeper who "greenlights" the project for other insiders with juicy reminiscences.
In the case of Guy Terrifico, Mabbott got an early script draft to the multitalented Donnie Fritts, who has worked with artists like Ray Charles, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson and is the 20-years-and-counting keyboard veteran for Rhodes scholar Kris Kristofferson, PhD.
Fritts delivers some of the best "truthful" lines about Terrifico — his quip about Guy's two-week gospel phase: "It was like he was saying, 'Oh Lord, save me, but not right now"— and is credited with securing the participation of Kristofferson, Levon Helm and Ronnie Hawkins.
Watching those guys, as well as Merle Haggard (Guy's unwitting hero-cum-nemesis), Grammy-winning pop historian Rob Bowman (Guy's biographer, who describes the musical era brilliantly while revealing Guy's "real" story) and Phil Kaufman (Guy's manager, the truth of his performance drawn from real-life wranglings of notorious musicians like Gram Parsons) reminisce about Guy, you suspect they're talking about themselves, each other or some eccentric musician dude they once knew way back when. Well, indeed they are. Guy Terrifico is the repository of some "heyday" tales these guys love to tell, but won't attribute to anyone lest they incriminate themselves or someone close.
Real-life references abound and it's a whole heck of a lot of fun hearing them because they're probably true.
The jumping-off point of The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico is the present-day investigation of the album "Retribution Honky Tonkus." Bedtracks sent to various musicians by someone calling himself Senor Fantastico are accompanied by a typed note that reads "Bring It Back Home." Everyone starts to wonder if Terrifico (supposedly shot dead during a live club show in Vancouver during his comeback in the early seventies) is still alive and writing songs.
A fake documentarian, rarely seen or heard, weaves together "archival" footage and photographs with interviews. Prairie boy Jim Jablowski, whose songwriting genius was first revealed in the seminal tune "Perogy Moon," wins $8-million, the biggest jackpot in Canadian lottery history. During one of his epic parties he is kicked in the head by a rental horse. When he wakes up he christens himself Guy Terrifico.
Guy ingratiates himself to his musical heroes by creating the legendary club Barrio Terrifico, although he is rarely conscious enough to greet his famous guests. His ill-fated trip to Nashville, where he and his band appear on "The Horton Family Jamboree,"further cements his legend, as musician Stephen Bruton (fake) reminisces: "In walks this guy with a massive head wound and a midget." Go see the film and you'll get it. Guy's musical genius never gets a chance to shine. He is ahead of his time and a screw-up. Foreshadowing punk, Guy gets hit with a beer bottle in New York and "humps the drums"; the move, not his music, becomes his signature. "Giving them what they want is hard on a man's soul," Kristofferson says.
Yet all the fodder from the real-life "guys" would not work without the nuanced, funny and honest performances from Canadian indie rock veteran Murphy and Natalie Radford, who plays it straight as Guy's life-long lover Mary Lou. They make the film sing.
Like the cult classics This Is Spinal Tap (metal) and the more recent A Mighty Wind (squeaky-clean folk), The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico (outlaw C&W) has been slapped with the mockumentary label. But don't you pay no never mind. You know and I know better; Guy Terrifico is alive and well and living in Spain.
Special to The Globe and Mail

2005-11-08T16:57:00.000-05:00

The Mighty

Tim Brennan

2005-11-06T18:03:00.000-05:00

Drew kicks out the jelly .

Guy Terrifico

2005-09-18T10:32:00.000-04:00

Guy Terrifico loses it big time .

from the garden

2005-09-11T08:28:00.000-04:00

Ocean Death Song

2005-08-28T23:02:00.000-04:00

intro : The Sad They Walk On

2005-08-28T22:56:00.000-04:00

Let You Go Cold

2005-08-28T22:55:00.000-04:00

2005-08-27T13:57:00.000-04:00

more Love Energy

2005-08-27T13:23:00.000-04:00

Love Energy sessions

photo Tim Brennan

2005-08-16T13:17:00.000-04:00

The legendary Black Death benefit sees The Super Friendz meeting destiny beyond the unregrettable fire .
The Attic

photo Marilyn McAvoy

2005-08-16T13:00:00.000-04:00

The Super Friendz
in action over the skies of Halifax

photo Aaron Muise