Modern times October 5, Beckenham, UK If you would have asked me what kind of artist I wanted to be when I started my one-man band, I...

The Mayor at one of his last gigs. Photo by Renata Klasa A person who ended up being quite important to me the artist known as, Feist. I...

Outside my dressing room at MTV One of the reasons I think that the music industry never quite embraced me is because I had never...

The Diesel Island Troubadour What an awful lot of hipsters there are in the world, nowadays. You know the type, long hair in a top bun,...

On the Noisettes tour After almost a year playing in and around London, I was garnering a good reputation and everything was starting to...

A shot from, 'The Amy Winehouse Shoot' by Dean Chalkley A couple of weeks after my triumphant gig at the Secret Garden Party, I received...

at the Secret Garden Party I must admit, my plan worked. I got to England and people really were blown away when they saw my show. In...

In 2003 I became a rock machine. I ran into the bass player of my first band, The  Tuna-Melts, Ken Corke, who said, "I have something for...

On the tour bus with Finger Eleven and CZ One of the most fun experiences that I ever had on a tour was with Finger Eleven. I had made it...

Christian McMaster and me, co-founders of the Jamie Lizmore Appreciation Society I was exposed to a lot of really good music from a...

Siblings... photo by Roman Sokal I wish that I could say that if one works hard and is a nice person, they will succeed. The problem is...

Dog sculpture by a friendly boarder in Regina The coldest night I had ever spent in my life was in Edmonton Alberta. In Canada, when I...

There is a strange question I started being asked after my one-man band act; “Are you a musician or a comedian?” “I’m a musician.” I...

A song list from a 'recent' project As discussed in Lesson 1, being a successful artist is as easy as making your  art. However, there is...

Photo by Kathleen Munroe Shortly after my run for Mayor, a summer of touring and living in one of the worst neighbourhoods with drug...

Photos courtesy of Marc Brenzil Around the same time that I ran for Mayor I started hearing about a mysterious band called, ' Rainbow...

McCampaign photo by Roman Sokal In the year 2000, at twenty four years old, I took a bit of time off from Mayor McCa to enter politics....

Before I moved to England, I spent the better part of three years touring back and forth across Canada exclusively, almost non-stop. This...

There are a lot of things that can make a gig great and a lot of things that can make a gig bad. I learned how to avoid and deal with...

I used to go to a theatre school in downtown Hamilton. I went for many, many years and even after I stopped being a student there, I...