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Neutral Internet vital to innovation

Joshua Brown
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It is absolutely critical that Canadians get behind open and neutral networks that don’t place restrictions on content, access or speed, said Terry Dalton, Chair of the Atlantic Canada Organization of Research Networks in Nova Scotia.

He spoke at Dalhousie University on Oct. 26 in a speaker series on the future of the digital landscape.
“We were seeing more and more influences on some of the Internet service providers in directing traffic, limiting traffic,” Dalton said. “Large advertisers come in and have an agreement so you would see more of their advertising.”

The panel discussion that evening focused on a recent Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) ruling.

On Oct. 21 the CRTC set new rules for how Canadians can use the Internet, and how the Internet companies can use us.

Internet activities such as peer-to-peer file sharing and streaming video suck up a lot more bandwidth than e-mail or browsing the Internet.

Internet service providers say they need to be allowed to throttle service in some cases, to prevent a small minority of heavy users from clogging up their networks, illegally downloading copyright material and slowing service for other Internet users.

Media companies, who have seen the loss of revenue to illegal downloading, backed up the Internet service providers, like Bell and Rogers, at the CRTC hearings.

In the ruling, the CRTC gave Canada’s telecoms a green light to slow access to the Internet for bandwidth hogs, but laid down specific guidelines for doing so.

In the Wednesday ruling the CRTC created new rules affecting the way Internet service providers usethe information that travels over their networks.

The commission specified standards of reasonable traffic management and banned the use of personal information for anything other than traffic management purposes.

Service providers now have to describe their traffic managing practices, and justify them any time a consumer complains.

“(The CRTC) ruling is going to stimulate further future discussion amongst politicians and amongst some of the open access groups who want to see a broader level of net neutrality,” said Dalton.

“We’re going to see the ISPs hands-off with regards to any traffic flow and were going to see a lot of discussion coming forward.”

Dalton spoke alongside Darren Abramson, an Assistant Professor with the Dalhousie University Department of Philosophy specializing in logic and the philosophy of computer science.

He said relaxing users’ rights over copyrighted materials could create economic activity.

While throttling can put the breaks on illegal downloads of copyright material, Abramson says new revenue streams are available from sharing copyrighted works.

“There is a whole new class of musical interaction, such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero, that create brand new revenue streams.”

Media companies have argued for throttling, saying opposition to illegal downloading and greater protection for copyright material is needed to promote future content creation.

But Abramson doesn’t see it that way.

“The interaction has drastically reduced the costs of content creation and distribution,” Abramson said.

“All kinds of creative work is made possible by this.”

Timothy Reese, an independent musician, agrees with Abramson. According to him, the Internet is a vital tool for musicians like himself, without access to big distribution networks.

“It doesn’t really bode well for us to charge for our music. I’d rather people just listen,” says Reese whose music is available online for free.

“Using broadband legislation to prevent very specific problems is like requiring permission to drive from town to town, to stop people from speeding or stealing cars.”

Restrictions on throttling keep Internet service providers from acting as the middleman between content creators and content consumers.

The CRTC’s decision keeps service providers from having control over the pipes, saying who can have access to what and how fast, said Dalton.

“When you give creative minds the open ability to innovate and explore great things will come out of it,” Dalton said.

“If we restrict the flow of information, we’re going to be restricting innovation, our curiosity, our ability to explore in a creative manner.”

What gives you the right?

Dalhousie Gazette Staff
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For students, it’s pretty easy to forget about copyright. Copyright isn’t sexy. But like it or not, students and young people are at the forefront of the battle for balanced copyright laws in Canada.
Of course, copyright exists to protect the rights people want over their knowledge, or art. But there is a point at which stopping the reproduction of something can prevent the creation of something else. That’s where our rights as users and consumers come in.

Last month, Access Copyright – a licensing agency that collects money from businesses, schools, libraries and various government departments to permit the photocopying of copyrighted material – raided a copy centre in Toronto for illegally photocopying course packs and textbooks for students.

“Copyright in Canada must be safeguarded,” Executive Director Maureen Cavan asserted in a news release from Access Copyright. “The hard work of authors and publishers must be protected.”

The agency has gone far and wide to protect those creator rights. In 2007, Access Copyright sued Staples for copyright infringement because their customers could unlawfully photocopy at self-service stations.

More recently, in their submission to the federal government’s copyright consultations, Access Copyright suggested the government clamp down on “fair dealing” for copyright, and move away from copyright legislation that would make it easier to share resources amongst libraries, and over Internet databases.

Under current legislation, “fair dealing” is defined as being allowed to reproduce copyrighted material for research, private study, criticism, review or news reporting. But these exceptions are still quite restrictive.

Unlike our counterparts in the United States, Canadians have the right to change the format of copyrighted material we’ve paid for – to tape our favourite shows when we have class, or to use copyrighted material to remix music, create wannabe Girl Talk mash-ups, or for parody.

But as Laura Murray, copyright scholar and Queen’s English professor, told a group of Dalhousie students and faculty on Oct. 26, “Copyright is not just about owners’ rights. User rights are just as important. It’s not a favour.”

Copyright issues affect student life. Every photocopied article, every course pack, every shared track or movie file.

A student might go to the Killam Library to sign out a reserved reading for English class. But just one copy isn’t enough for a class of 80 students. Professors struggle to lawfully provide cost-free reading material.

The Canadian Association of University Teachers wants easier access to copyrighted material. The association of nearly 65,000 teaching staff, librarians and academics issued a report last September that says a more user-friendly copyright law will help those creative juices flow.

Part of the report centres on the digital era. Because technological advancements have created loopholes in copyright issues, members of the association worry changes to the

Copyright Act will further restrict user rights. Their report states that the Copyright Act needs to protect the right to fair dealing.

The digital era is changing the way we think about copyright. More people are becoming interested in the issue. Now is the time to talk about it.

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Flash Mob in Student Union Building

Josh Boyter
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At 12:30 in the Student Union building the chimes of climate change alarms began to rang. Close to 30 students participated in the mob, bringing attention to climate issues. The mob culminated with the participants calling Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a bid to get government to take action in Copenhagen during the COP15 conference.

One lacking program per child

Josh Boyter
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I imagine that brightly coloured laptops sit in a small closet in rural Africa and slowly collect dust as the days pass. The school that owns them cannot secure power to recharge their batteries, the broken dreams of a grand philanthropist idea that was supposed to revolutionize the world.

In 2005 at a conference in Tunis, Tunisia, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the One Laptop Per Child campaign with the goal of outfitting children in the developing world with laptops. The grand scheme was to extend children’s knowledge with computers and expand their educational horizons. Four years since the first laptop was touted the program continues to struggle getting off the ground and fulfill much of its early goals. Any person who studies international development knows this story is only one among a long line of philanthropist development program carnage. From One Laptop Per Child to the scandal that marred Gap’s RED campaign, these programs often crumble under their own weight.

Be it laptops, using consumerism to end AIDS or using large sums of money to wage war against disease with pharmaceutical drugs, these large-scale philanthropist programs always have one ultimate goal. The development of these programs with one sole goal narrows the view of the project considerably. Development with blinders on becomes the reality of the day, streamlining the project. This fails to address problems outside of the scope of the mission.

Development is a messy and complicated affair. Rarely can a problem be attributed to one item or solved through one solution. Every problem has to be looked at from various angles and solved through concurrently looking and addressing many issues at once.

The western world is a wired society. Cell phones, computers and technology devices become extra appendages to our bodies. We often think of the benefits that such technology has brought to our lives and want to extend this to the developing world. While this technology could help, the perpetual lack of secure power grids, poor communication infrastructure and high costs mean such solutions have towering walls for developing communities to surmount. These technology solutions often add to the problems that exist within the community. Lack of tech support, and using valuable fuel to power generators can make it difficult to use such technologies. While technology can help with the spread of information, it is possible to use local means of communication and development to attack problems that technology could also solve.

We often see philanthropist programs develop ventures for themselves and not for their partners in development. This is readily seen in the One Laptop Per Child program. In Ethiopia teachers will not allow laptops in the class since they think it will distract the children from learning. It is ironic the exact issue that the program is trying to solve becomes the problem itself.  It is important that local systems be able to use the technology. If the system or the local people cannot use the solution since it fails to work within their own worldview, the project is guaranteed to fail. It is important that we look at development as a partner relationship in which we take the ideas of the community in question and together develop solutions to problems.

The relocation of philanthropist to the mid section of the development machine will enable huge changes to be made. We can no longer afford to continue with a top-down approach. The development of many grassroots programs over wide area that are well funded will bring about considerable change. This means using money where it is needed, developing programs with local needs in mind and eliminating the strings attached to the money. It is important we study programs as One Laptop Per Child ensuring that we do not make the same mistakes in the future.

Jock Talk

Dalhousie Gazette Staff
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Q: Who would you rather: Zach Morris or Zac Efron?
A: I love Zach Morris, but I think Zac Efron is hotter, so Efron.

Q: Could you take Miley Cyrus in a steel cage match?
A: For sure. She’s young and probably not as strong.

Q: What is the sluttiest Halloween costume you have ever seen?
A: I went to the Dome on Halloween once, and there was a guy dressed as a penis.

Q: You had the privilege of going to Croatia this summer. I hear that they have nude beaches there. See any old man balls?
A: So many I lost count.

Q: Which member of New Kids On The Block would you least like to see in a whip cream bikini?
A: Jordan.

Q: Some of the girls on your team play the position of hooker. Which bar star on the squad lives up to that title?
A: Ryan a.k.a. “Pooey” is the biggest bar star of the guys and girls rugby teams.

Q: Would you break up with your boyfriend if his nightlight was a fully functional donair spit?
A: Well, I wouldn’t be sleeping over as often.

Q: Would you get back together with him if he also had a blue slushie machine?
A: That would definitely bring me back!

Q: Can you name the truck that’s four lanes wide, it smells like steak and seats 35?
A: I believe that would be the Canyonaro, 65 tons of American Pride.

Q: If you were the father in the film Honey I Shrunk the Kids and you were starving, would you eat that bowl of cereal knowing that your shrunken children are in it?
A: It depends on the type of cereal.

Pray the fat away

Elissa Gurman
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I may not be speaking for all of us here in the Dalhousie community, but until recently I had never considered “praying and seeking God’s wisdom” as a step on the path to improved physical fitness. However, with the fear of the freshman 15 looming, I decided to look into the faith-fitness connection.

Apparently, I’m not the first. From meditative yoga to spiritual aerobics, the market is flooded with faith-based workouts. As Michelle Spadafora, founder of Faithful Workouts, writes, “when you put your focus on doing your best for God, exercise is more enjoyable, rewarding and effective.” Spadafora’s workouts promise to “put your focus where it belongs – on God” through the use of “faith-building songs.” This spiritual soundtrack will “improve your overall health, your physical appearance and reduce your stress.”

Brad Bloom, publisher of the online Faith & Fitness Magazine, expressed a similar view in a recent interview with the Dal Gazette. Bloom, who is “not the traditional type of minister,” started his zine in November 2003 and his readership has been growing steadily ever since.

The magazine started from his frustration with typical fitness publications: “Many of the magazines often have good fitness content. However, they are borderline soft porn (well maybe not even border-line or soft) and they cover sex topics – lots of sex topics – from a very secular point of view. Not quite what you would want your child to see or what you would have sitting next to your Bible on the coffee table.”

He sought to produce a fitness magazine that would not only be child-appropriate, but that would “help people build physical and spiritual strength.”

For Bloom, the two are inextricably connected. Akin to Spadafora’s claim, Bloom suggests that “giving your exercise time to God increases the likelihood that you will be committed to your fitness goals.

Dealing with your spiritual challenges improves your ability to achieve and maintain your physical fitness goals.”

Bloom argues that his magazine goes beyond “the tacky, carefully packaged, overly religious and restricted style of the vast majority of Christian content in today’s marketplace.”

“We work to produce content that is challenging,” he says. “I don’t want to make a magazine that is simply nice Christian reading. I don’t think that is very useful. I want the Christian reader to grow.”

But what about the non-Christian reader? Bloom claims that Faith & Fitness nurtures those readers as well. Though the magazine is unabashedly Christian, the fundamental point is about the connection between the material and the spiritual. The main message is motivation.

“Faith & Fitness Magazine targets the core elements that trigger motivation: passion, desire, and commitment. It does it in new ways by connecting attitudes and spiritual dynamics to our personal physical world … It works because it helps people tap into their deepest beliefs and their heart-felt ideals. It helps them connect at the very root of ‘want’ where motivation and faith become virtually synonymous.”

So for those of us with a strong faith, we might want to think about connecting our religious beliefs, whatever they may be, to our workouts. As for the rest of us, I think the main message to be taken from the faith-fitness ideology is this: though on the surface our fitness routines may seem to be about sloughing off those extra pounds, exercise, like anything else, is a mental and spiritual journey that requires strong motivation and commitment, whether grounded in religious faith or not.

Rock ‘n’ Horror Picture Show

Brent Hiscock
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Saturday, Oct. 17 was a unique experience for Haligonians who love art. The second annual Nocturne showcase drew crowds to and from all creative corners of the city for free late-night gallery shows and public exhibitions. North end Halifax was no exception with painters, printers, sculptors and performers using the opportunity to have their work appreciated by as wide an audience as possible.

Enter the Upstairs Apartment Gallery/Rock Garden tag team lineup. Organizing the display of the city’s best known and unknown artists is rapidly becoming the team’s forte. This time things were different, with more than 30 artists and performers collaborating for the “Haunted Gallery” showcase.

“We wanted it to be something ridiculously special,” says Stoo Metz, administrator, curator and promoter for the gallery. “Events like (Nocturne) elevate us from doing an art show in a bachelor apartment to being on par with the rest of the galleries in the city.”

That elevation was forced back in May when the building the Upstairs Apartment Gallery resided in was sold. Its tenants and artists were forced to find a new home. The next month they were back on track after forging an alliance with The Rock Garden, typically a jam spot for local talent and now in its fifth year. The gallery has made use of the space twice in the last four months for gallery shows. With plenty of prior notice, the gallery/Rock Garden duo was able to pull off a perfect ghoul’s night out, complete with black light art, creepy live tunes and jars of rotting fish parts.

Talks within the gallery collective about participation in Nocturne started back in June. Co-ordinating members and gathering submissions took place while focusing on events at hand. Keeping it on the back burner, but always on the agenda was no easy task says Metz.

“It was kind of like our Wrestle-Mania,” the self-confessed wrestling junkie says with much sincerity.
The analogy fits with such a variety of talent to be seen through the steel doors and down the concrete steps just off Cunard Street. Submissions from well known local artists such as Chris Smith and Laura Dawe (Gazette Arts Editor) were featured alongside up-and-comers such as Geordan Moore and Jilldo Lanteigne.

“There’s so much creative talent out there,” says Metz. “We just want to give people a place to express that.”

Personal invites for upcoming shows go out to other gallery operators in the area. Solid connections are being formed, cultivating and strengthening the wealth of creative talent in this great city. The gallery is quickly becoming a resource for these connections – and this is just the beginning. Plans are in the works for a website launch.

All of this growth and continued success fuels the fire of the gallery collective’s spirit, celebrating its first anniversary with an upcoming showcase on Nov. 21. They pass this energy along to their members, who pour in more frequently after each opening. Metz points out that the point never was to make the collective wealthy, but to provide a platform for artists who might not otherwise have one, adding “our victories come when artists sell their work.”

Mindful that the platform doesn’t construct itself, Metz says although he receives a lot of the thanks and appreciation for the efforts of the gallery, there is much more to the picture.

“It’s really got to be put out there that the shows can’t happen without the help of the collective. They’re willing to put a lot of time into the planning and setup. They really do put their hearts and souls into it.”

Bang Bang Burlesque

Anna Demello
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Halloween is all about getting your freak on. You can re-invent yourself, explore a strange character, or morph into whatever Gwar-esque monster your heart desires. The young women of Bang Bang Burlesque, a troupe of 16 students here in Halifax, have chosen to express their inner freak by performing a series of sexual and thought-provoking dances on Halloween night.

It all began last year, when then first-year University of King’s College student Delia Macpherson decided to start a performance troupe. Macpherson is a combined honours student studying journalism and theatre. She loves all things erotic and dark. She directed her high school play, Peter Pan, a couple of years ago. She says her love of spooky erotic movements emerged in part from that experience.

“We did an alternative version (of the play). The mermaids were creepy and seductive, they were painted metallic silver with shells in their hair,” Macpherson says. “They were really sexy and creepy looking. It was heavy choreography with creative music, and it was really well received.”

It was last year that she first joked with her friends about starting a burlesque troupe.

“Roxy Velvet was a massive inspiration for me. She’s a model from the U.K. who does a routine where she’s a nurse. She’s sexy and plays out the whole fantasy thing, but in the middle she cuts herself open. It’s a combination of beauty and sexual fantasy with gore, death and blood. It’s really erotic and hard to watch, but you’re fascinated. You can’t not watch.”

Macpherson held auditions at King’s last year, and accepted girls with a huge variety of talent. Their capabilities ranged from dance to yoga to karate. Some girls had previous dance training while others have none at all. Some have also done theatre and others simply wanted to get involved. Right now there are 16 members in the troupe, including Macpherson.

She admits there was a negative response to Bang Bang Burlesque at first, but that people became more open to the idea once they understood what it was all about.

The Halloween gig, which will be held at The Seahorse Tavern on Argyle Street, is actually their first public performance, but their girls are planning another for the spring.

Macpherson admits that originally she only wanted to choreograph and direct the shows, but ended up performing as well.

She’ll even be performing a solo on Halloween night, which was choreographed by Hayley Lynch. Macpherson says she seeks advice from the other girls when she feels stuck.

“It’s a group thing and we collaborate,” she says. “I’m not power tripping or anything like that. At least I hope not.”

Promotions manager at The Seahorse, Troy Arsenault, helped big time with setting up the Halloween performance.

“I went in to meet him and he was the nicest guy,” says Macpherson. “He gave us the Halloween spot and we started rehearsing in September.”

There are 16 dances in total, each set to a different song by one of four great local bands. Bloodbath will open the show before the dancing starts. Other bands accompanying the dancers that night will be Myles Deck and The Fuzz, Broken Ohms, Gloryhound and Big Game Hunt.

Each dance has a different number of girls and a different theme. Expect solo performances. Themes include Broadway, “fucked-up ballerina,” rock and roll groupies, vulture demons, skeleton dance, master and slave, cops and sexy librarian among others.

“She’s wearing a body suit with a terrifying mask, and she’s stunning,” says Meghan Oliver, another member of the troupe, describing the “creepy mask dance,” a solo performance by Julia Hutt. “It’s sexual and scary. She’s very monster-like and disjointed, but she’s so sweet in real life!”

Dani Pacey will perform the “skeleton dance” solo. She’ll be almost nude with bones painted on her skin.

“She’s a very tiny girl and completely embraces that,” says Meghan. “She made this something great.”
The girls are quick to tell me the performance is not about a bunch of Barbies on stage.  It’s about being erotic, beautiful and sexy in unconventional ways.

“It’s all about creative movement, about moving your body in a certain way and taking on a character,” she says. “Attitude is so important.”

The performance will take place at The Seahorse on Argyle Street, at 10 p.m. on Halloween night. Tickets are $10 at the door. Visit www.bangbangburlesque.yolasite.com.

Playing the audience

Nick Laugher
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If there were one word you could use to describe David Schroeder, it would have to be multifaceted. A Professor of Music at Dalhousie University, Schroeder is a musician, author, avid film buff and, in what little spare time he has, an Alfred Hitchcock aficionado. In conjunction with a new lecture series to honour the inauguration of a new graduate studies program in Musicology at Dalhousie, he’s finally going to make a place for his love of Hitchcock in his professional life.

Schroeder, a classically-trained musician, has taught music at Dalhousie for 28 years, offering classes ranging from musicology and musical history to opera and music in film. Though music is central to his occupation and dear to his heart, he also possesses an undying love for the marriage of film and music. After a long and successful run at Dalhousie, Schroeder is finally ready to step down, remarking slyly how it’s “best to leave on your own terms.”

Having just completed a book on Hitchcock, his second about film, Schroeder saw the new lecture series as the perfect way to celebrate his retirement. Being the Hitchcock fan he is, he chose to lecture on a topic that has captivated him for years to finally bridge the gap between Hitchcock and his teaching.
“Hitchcock was very into classical music,” says Schroeder. “Composers and especially pianos.”

The main focus of the lecture centres on Hitchcock’s use of the piano as a seductive form of imagery.
“Hitchcock used the image and the idea of the piano to imply a raw, seductive power in his films,” Schroeder remarks.

He explains that originally, the piano was a very gender specific instrument, tailored to women.
“It was part of their studies in finishing school,” he adds. “The only men who played piano were professionals.”

Over the years, authors picked up on this notion and the piano developed as a sensual, almost erotic image. Schroeder thinks Hitchcock, along with the likes of Jane Austen and Jane Campion, also picked up on this.

“There are 53 Hitchcock films,” says Schroeder. “Fifty-two that we know about … and about half of them feature the piano prominently.”

Schroeder’s love of Hitchcock films is deeply rooted in the silent era. He says silent films were heavily reliant on a sense of rhythm and sense music, even if it wasn’t there. He points to a quote from Hitchcock to illustrate just how intimately these things are connected.

“I was playing the audience as I play the organ,” Schroeder says. “The director himself had to think in musical terms, to transfer the music into visual images.”

He thinks the most beautiful Hitchcock scenes have no dialogue.

So what does Schroeder do with his time when he’s not waxing intellectually about films and music to a new generation of Hitchcock hopefuls? He’s just recently penned a new book on Franz Schubert and has been invited by the BBC Logos Journal to do a piece for the 200th anniversary of the death of composer Joseph Haydn.

He also admits he spends a lot of time in the Hitchcock archives in L.A. and London, sifting through early and variant scripts. He’s read over 20 different scripts to Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” – admittedly his favorite Hitchcock film – including one with a dramatic and lavish opera scene that was cut from the final version of the film.

You were woefully unlucky enough to miss Schroeder’s “Pianos in Hitchcock’s Films: Instruments of Seduction?” Check out some of the other lectures the music department is holding this year and maybe even drop in to pick Schroeder’s brain and have a chat about the poetic piano scene in Hitchcock’s “The Ring.” He definitely won’t disappoint.

Visit http://music.dal.ca/ to keep update to many more talks in the music departments lecture series this winter.

P.E.I. groups steal the show at Coconut Grove

Erica Eades
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Grade: A-

The Prince Edward Island music scene invaded Coconut Grove on Friday night, as Charlottetown-based groups Smothered in Hugs, The Danks and Two Hours Traffic joined local boys Mardeen as part of the Halifax Pop Explosion.

Although the audience was sparse during opening act Smothered in Hugs, there was a determined group of five or six fans in the front row keeping the energy levels high. They danced continuously throughout the set and shouted enthusiastically at the end of every song. Even with the minimal crowd, Smothered in Hugs gave their all to the performance. They played a fast, hard set that was drenched with enthusiasm and a passion for their music.

The Danks brought the energy up a level as they played songs from their newly-released album, Are You Afraid of the Danks? The band performed their standard Strokes-inspired music, but with an edgier vibe than on the album. Front man Brohan Moore’s vocals sounded coarser than usual, possibly from the strain of the group’s cross-country tour.

Nevertheless, The Danks gave a driving performance. The highlight was their hit “Treaty Connector.” When they played it, the audience roared with excitement.

Sadly, Mardeen was less than memorable as a follow up. This could be because The Danks were such a hard act to follow. Or it could be the result of having to open for the evening’s headliners, Two Hours Traffic. Either way, they were unable to steal attention away from the other acts. This is too bad, because Mardeen can put down excellent album tracks, but their live show seemed to lack the passion and drive of a release such as “Read Less Minds.” Their Pop Explosion show left me drumming my fingers, waiting for something more involving. Maybe they’re just a better studio band than live act.

Two Hours Traffic took the stage at about 1 a.m., at which point the bar was almost at capacity. They opened their set with the title song from their latest record, Territory. Album producer Joel Plaskett mingled with the audience as he enjoyed the show as both a friend and advisor.

After the opening song, the band went back to their previous album Little Jabs, where they slowed down the tempo with the track “Nighthawks.” The audience seemed unimpressed by the band’s more laidback tone, but was ecstatic when they came back with one of their most upbeat hits, “Sure Can Start.”

The Charlottetown groups certainly stole the show away from our local talent. However, Friday night at the Coconut Grove proved once again that East Coast music is a force to be reckoned with.

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