Hunger replaces the slumber

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THIS WEEK
It’s a laughing matter
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A MINUTE WITH MADCHILD
KTW spoke to Swollen Member Madchild
in advance of this weekend’s big show at The
Max:
Favourite living rock band: Coldplay
Hottest girl in the world: Girlfriend Jade
Favourite hockey team: Canucks
Favourite rap artist of all time: Jay-Z
One person you could meet: Rober De Niro
Favourite travel location: Vegas or Australia
Favourite food: Polish food and girlfriend’s
mom’s chicken soup
Favourite track of all-time: Jump Around by
House of Pain
Favourite band not with us: Nirvana
Harder to travel with, Prevail or Rob: None,
get along great
By Dale Bass
STAFF REPORTER
dale@kamloopsthisweek.com
Madchild (left), Prevail and Rob the Viking will be
in Kamloops Saturday night for a show at The Max. Tickets
can be purchased at the door of the club, which sits
at Lorne Street and Second Avenue.
Hunger replaces the slumber
By Marty Hastings
STAFF REPORTER
reporter@kamloopsthisweek.com
W
HEN ROB THE VIKING,
Prevail and Madchild arrive
in Kamloops on Saturday,
they’re planning on sweeping the crowd at The Max off their feet
with a tidal wave of new, hard-hitting,
street-style hip-hop.
And, for anyone who needs help staying afloat amidst the swells of turbulent
waters, Madchild may be able to offer
advice.
“The highs are great but the lows were
an extreme version for me because of
what I chose to do with my time.
“My friends started giving me these
things called Percocets and we were
drinking and having fun. It was a blast
and life was good.
“Only I didn’t realize at the time that I
was doing synthetic heroin.
“So, I went from Percocet to
Oxycontin and it got to the point where
I would be staying home, closing the
drapes, watching movies and bouncing
around in my living room.”
Luckily for Madchild, he was thrown a
lifesaver by his close friends.
“I sort of had an awakening a couple
months ago when Prev’ brought these two
guys — Tre Nyce and Young Kazh — to
my attention,” said Madchild.
“They brought the hunger back to me
and woke me up out of my slumber.”
The two-time Juno winners’ popularity
in Canada has been in slow decline since
peaking in 2003 after a five-year rise to
the top of the charts.
But Madchild, who has kicked his
addiction to painkillers, is so excited
about the new group Swollen has formed
with Kuruption Camp (Nyce and Kazh)
— called Battle Axe Warriors — he’s
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willing to call his shot.
“I feel that Battle Axe Warriors is
going to be the Swollen Members of
2003.
“That’s my prediction. Now we’ll see
if it comes to fruition.
“The music we’re making with these
kids is so now, is so edgy — it’s grind
music and I’m so excited about it.”
Life on the road is a new experience
for Kuruption Camp.
And, for Swollen, watching them relish
the experience has brought back memories.
“We were nutbags. I mean, we were
crazy back then,” Madchild said.
“We would walk into hotel rooms and
throw things out the windows or walk
right into our dressing room, grab the big
fruit and vegetable plates and chuck them
against the wall.”
It may sound hackneyed, but Michael Carroll has
a dream.
And it’s nothing to laugh at.
Well, in his dream it is something to laugh at.
Carroll wants to create a comedy club in
Kamloops, a venue that will have recording facilities so shows could be taped and sold to the Comedy
Central television channel.
He’s working with Yuk Yuk’s to bring some of
the best funny people to the city, starting on Sunday
with the only Canadian to ever win at the Seattle
International Comedy Competition and a doctor who
moonlights as one very funny guy.
Damonde Tschritter (http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=XevwOKTfXLk) survived 17 shows over
a three-week period in Seattle to take the title, while
Russ Kennedy (http://www.drrusskennedy.com/video/
corp.mov) turned to comedy when he started to experience burnout as a general physician.
The pair is doing shows throughout the Okanagan
this week and will be in Kamloops on Sunday for a 7
p.m. show at Cactus Jack’s Saloon.
Two weeks later, Carroll is bringing in Mike
Craigdallie and Keith Samoski, who are also on Yuk
Yuk’s roster of comedians.
Carroll knows a bit about comedy himself, having
worked as a singing and dancing waiter on the Rocky
Mountaineer Railtour years ago.
He’s targeting the tourists who come in on the
trains, as well as local people, as a prime audience for
the shows and said he’s had great support so far from
management of hotels in the city he’s contacted with
his plans.
“We can support a comedy club in this city,”
Carroll said, and he’s looking at the soon-to-be-empty
Cactus Jack’s building as a prime location.
The bar operation is moving to a new site at the
corner of Lansdowne Street and Fifth Avenue.
Tickets are $20 and available through Hello Toast
at 428 Victoria St or Cactus Jack’s, 417 Seymour St.
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