I spoke a bit and traded emails with punk rock promoter, bartender, and candidate for city council WENDYTHIRTEEN, and the full interview is over at Beyond Robson
WENDYTHIRTEEN is having a night of Jazz (I kid you not; real jazz.) with the band The Jazz Holes (formerly the Jazz Nazis) as part of a fundraiser on Friday November 11th (TONIGHT).
Rumor has it that Calgary punk band The Knuckleheads will be showing up to close the night off; where else can you hear a jazz band open the evening, and a punk band close it?
There will be t-shirts, buttons and panties available with her face on them; sure to be collectors’ items.
Things tend to get going around 10:00, at the Astoria Hotel; 769 E Hastings in Vancouver, and I know I’ll be there; I need to get myself one of those excellent t-shirts.
[...] Friday November 11th I attended a Fundraiser for Vancouver City Council candidate WENDYTHIRTEEN featuring a band called the Jazz Holes. The band was absolutely 100 percent fantastic! Instruments of choice were an electric guitar and bass, trumpet, drums and some sort of small woodwind instrument from Turkey. They played stuff from Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and a few of their own works. A young woman with her hair about a foot high, fashioned mohawk style sang two songs, one she had written herself. Her voice was crystal clear. In between sets a folksinger guy with street attitude sang a few original songs accompanied by his electric, acoustic Takamine (anybody who plays a Takamine is ok by me!). He was hilarious and had the whole club clapping and singing along. By midnight the Jazz Holes were done and it was time for me to leave so I missed the second band, Nuckleheads. This was the first ever candidate fundraiser I have attended. Are they all this good? [...]