Working with the same band for 15 years can be a little predictable. Knowing what kind of music you’ll put out. Knowing what people you’ll be working with. Knowing what people you’ll expect at a show. It involves a lot of assumption; not to say that working with the same people for a long time isn’t great. You develop a flow with the people you work with. Perhaps feedback is more honest, and the whole music making process is more open because you’re comfortable. But it seems Rob McFee, formerly of Vacuity, is trying to find comfort in spontaneity with his new project, Outer Islands.

“Today Outer Islands is me and Duncan (Nicholls), in a couple of months it could be different.”

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• Patrick Finch, For NightLife
• Wed Apr 03 2013

Hamilton roots-rock band Harlan Pepper is getting ready to capitalize on their early success. They’ve recently finished recording their sophomore record (the followup to 2011’s Young & Old — winner of the Hamilton Music Award for Best Roots Recording), and when they haven’t been recording, they’ve been touring. Kitchener fans will get four chances to hear these wise-beyond-their-years gentlemen this April, when Harlan Pepper take on a Thursday night residency at the Boathouse.

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• Terry Pender, Record staff

Julian Fauth is running late.

The clerk at the Greyhound station in downtown Toronto assured Fauth everything was OK. That bus he was about to take was indeed an express run to Kitchener. Turns out that clerk was wrong.

But the hometown fans gathered at the Boathouse in Victoria Park for Fauth’s weekly Friday afternoon gig are always supportive. Fauth was greeted with a round of applause when he walked in 30 minutes late. Boathouse operator Kevin Doyle put a shot in Fauth’s hand, they clinked glasses and tossed backed the drinks.

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