Tell me about Manitoba

Quick Facts:
Overview of Manitoba
Manitoba: province of Canada since 1870. Manitoba means "where the spirit lives" in the languages of the province's Aboriginal people.

Political Leader: Premier (Gary Doer)

Area: 649,947 square km/250,946 square miles. (larger than Japan and twice the size of the U.K.) Manitoba extends from the 49th to the 60th parallel (the equivalent of Paris, France to Oslo, Norway). 1400 km north to south, 900 km at the widest point and 500 km at the narrowest.

Land Surface: 548,356 square km/211,721 square miles.

Water Surface: 101,592 square km/39,225 square miles.

Coastline: 645 km/400 miles.

Total Population: 1,150,000

Capital City: Winnipeg (population 680,000)

Value of CDN$ against major currencies: (Sept. 2002)
US$ = $1.56
Japanese Yen = $0.01315

His first album was great, but the second - more of a band project - sounds a bit 'meh' after a couple of listens. Search 'If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport' 12", his remix of Seelenluft's 'Manilla', and that first album... the name of which currently escapes me.

He's from Canada, but he lives in London.

he's never been in fridge, although he plays with them sometimes.

the album's really grown on me over the last few months. i suspect it's going to do v well indeed.

the new album ("up in flames") is quite a change of direction.

apparently the man got sick to death of "unoriginal electronic music" with everyone recapitulating the same sounds and processes over and over.

so he went leftfield and made a psych-rock record, more or less: a really fucked hodgepodge of 60s psychedelia, indie warbling, free jazz saxophone (a holdover from "start breaking my heart") and lots of "vintage" drum sounds.

and another bedroom producer coos into the mic.. this whole laptop-folk deal (i know manitoba would hate to be characterized as such) is blowing up.

has he ever worked with fridge / fourtet? is he on domino in the uk?

It sounds a bit like Cornelius circa Fantasma but with much more live instrumentation on it.

& "tits & ass: the great canadian weekend" 's a smashing song title to boot

They were like MBV with beats, amazing drumming (live too) they had cracking visuals too , all in all marvellous.

Plus Max Tundra was djing before and after and played a Thomas Bangalter track called "so much love to give" that I *have* to get hold of and a bootleg of Ride's Leave them all behind and a Brandy song that worked sooooooo well.

Great great night.

(But really I just wanted to go to see Captiol K)

It looked as they were fronted by Charlie Nicholas, and they were awful, some 0of the worst lyrics I've ever heard too.

Bad lyrics, dull music, what less could you want?

Mind you, they were supporting Alec Empire so maybe my taste-o-matic is all skewiff.

one lyric =
there's a tiger chasing meeeeeee

through the jungle

and into the citeeeeeee

we larfed. Suspiciously much older main bloke than other members too, I never like to see that.

I'm so hoping that's not a typo.
Where is the Arse Cafe and have Elbow ever played there?

?? you're presumably not talking about the new manitoba album?

btw apparently the batteries had died in one drummer's headphones last night, which is why the drumming was out of sync to start with.

The new one is like Glifted and MBV.