The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-06-29, Page 20Page 6—Crossroads—June 29, 1983
The Wonderful
Grand Band
moves west
You don't have to be a full-
fledged Newfie to roll on /he
broadloom of your own living
room at the outrageous
antics of The Wonderful
Grand Band, starting Fri-
day, July 8 at 8 p.m. on CBC
Television.
Since 1979, The Wonderful
Grand Band has played
award-winning shows to full
houses all over Newfound-
land and the rest of Canada.
Because of its popularity,
both locally and across the
country in the many centres
which picked it up, the CBC
has taped a new series of
nine half-hour shows for net-
work airing.
The Wonderful Grand
Band is an exhilarating com-
pilation of musical styles and
original comedy material.
The dynamic combination
ends up being the kind of
mixture the Band refers to
as " hi drama ... lo art".
Themusic is original, from
traditional rock to punk to
"beyond rock", while the
comedy is simply off the
wall, running the gamut
from the outrageously
familiar to the wildly ab-
surd. The various characters
hold a mirror to and reflect
life on the local, national and
international scenes.
Some of the Band's imper-
sonations include Carol
Channing, Ronald and
Nancy Reagan, and Lauren
Bacall, with the latter in a
sketch for Breaking Point, a
caffeine -enriched coffee. A
talk show host interviews
Pick, of Pick and the Pock-
marks, asking the semi-
literate, drug -crazed punker
whether he reads a lot. Other
guests on the "Monte Crisco
Show" are pop star Randy
Glib and singer Lillian
Shrillwell, "winner of three
Gimme Awards A
Gabby,
and an Actless nominee who
has wanted to sing with more
big stars than anyone else I
can mention". The Band lets
no target escape unscathed.
Instead of beer commer-
cials, their spots advertise
just plain "booze" — any
kind, anywhere. Another
sketch satirizes the punk
scene in a song featuring
four vicious punk grannies
who want to know "What
have we to look forward to?"
The Wonderful Grand
Band w . c :. ted in October
of 1 ' by som of Newfound -
Ian 's best performers,
musicians an. comedians.
They colla • . ated on an
adventurous eries for New-
foundland called The
Root Seller. The album re-
corded as a result was a run-
away success. Although they
went their separate ways
after the show, the demand
for more of The Wonderful
Grand Band kept bringing
them back together. The
current Band now includes
four of the six original mem-
bers of Codco, the hilarious
comedy team formed in the
'70s.
The Band's two record-
ings, Wonderful Grand
Band, 1978, and Living In A
Fog, 1981,
have received ac-
claim not only in Canada, but
in the States, Great Britain,
Europe and Japan. The
group will spend the month
of July in the Maritimes and
will tour Canada in the fall.
The members of The Won-
derful Grand Band are Ron
Hynes, Jamie Snider, Paul
"Boomer" Stamp, Sandy
Morris, Howie Warden,
Steve Annan, featuring
comedians Greg Malone,
Tommy Sexton, Mary Walsh
and Cathy Jones. The show is
written by Greg Malone and
Tommy Sexton. Original
compositions and arrange-
ments are by The Wonderful
Grand Band and Declan
O'Doherty. The show is pro-
duced and directed by Jack
Kellum.
Direct from Newfound-
land, the Entertainment
Capital of the Emerging
World ... it's The Wonderful
Grand Band!
HAVE YOU
HEARD THE ONE
ABOUT THE GUY
WHO DOVE INTO
THE EMPTY
SWIMMING POOL?
WB HAVE
CANADIAN
PARAPLEGIC
IC
ASSOCIATION
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TO REASONABLE
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