A very special episode of The Go-Go Radio Magic Show…

I honour of the recent Blow The Fuse Records / Bonsound reissues of Tricky Woo’s Rock and Roll Music Part One , The Enemy Is Real and Sometimes I Cry we welcome Adrian Popovich for the entirety of the show.

We celebrate Tricky Woo, a band that to me, defined the city of Montreal and my time in it as a younger man. I first attended a Tricky Woo show because their (then) bass player Eric, was dating my girlfriend, (now wife)Lee-Ann's sister, Raylene.

Eric and I would eventually live together, an experience that gifted me a lifelong friend and one of the best roommates I ever had, but also gave me a behind the scenes glimpse of what it was like to be in a band in Montreal in the late 1990's.

When Eric would go on tour, I would skip class and explore his turntable and his vinyl collection, discovering sounds and artists that fell outside the lines of popular consumption, opening the door to a lifetime of abusing headphones. I think Eric's copy of Patti Smith's Radio Ethiopia is worn through on the track Strange...

Although, not the first local band I had seen, Tricky Woo's impact still reverberates.

Tricky Woo's performances werer incendiary and connect me to a time where I felt indestructable, I required no sleep and survived off of dollar pizza, muffins, coffee and beer.... and those opening bars of Altamount Raven could exorcise that restlessness of youth ... everytime.

You can visit Blow The Fuse Records and purchase The Tricky Woo reissues here.

You can visit Blow The Fuse Records Bandcamp here.

Watch the trailer for the upcoming documentary on Tricky Woo.