Molestics for a Weekend
Mike Soret and Gilles Roy, founding members of Vancouver’s Molestics, form again on the weekend of February 7 & 8, 2009 for the book launch of Soret’s band memoir, Confessions of a Local Celebrity.
This voice mail message captures a moment of preparation for the book launch gigs, with accompanying slideshow of pictures taken at the Edmonton and Vancouver gigs by Tamara Letkeman.
To get a copy of the book, contact the Belgravian Press:
http://www.belgravianpress.ca
Confessions of a Local Celebrity: a Tale of Rags to No Rags, by Mike Soret
1995 was a magical year. Wedged between a nasty recession and a dot-com bubble, North America briefly had discretionary income to burn. In music, swing became the greatest recipient of this windfall. It had the right elements in place: it was anachronistic, it was clean-cut, it was non-threatening. Many forgettable acts came, got paid, and faded under the banner of this gimmick. The Molestics were one of those acts, and though they weren’t the worst (or best, tightest, or cleanest) of the pack, they certainly are the subject of this imbibing memoir. 190 pages, embossed covers, 6.5″ square.
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Louis Maistros’ novel “THE SOUND OF BUILDING COFFINS” was launched March 5, 2009 at Octavia Books in New Orleans. Quickly garnering high praise from critics and readers alike, the book is set in New Orleans circa 1891 during the birth of jazz and the era of disease and unabated natural disasters. Here Maistros sings, “”Go Down Water,” a song he wrote in response to Hurricane Katrina.