Feist @ Junos
It’s Juno time people! Aren’t you thrilled? Yeah… me neither. On the bright side, they decided to change the voting process due to… a lot of shit winners (note: this affirmation does NOT include Feist’s 2008 winning extravaganza.). I’m talking about YOU, Celine Dion. Half of the vote will be based on CARAS members and the other half on sales. This means that if those CARAS people are smart, Nickelback will suck it and Tokyo Police Club will win group of the year. And also your couch will turn into cake. This year, CTV went all out and promoted the awards on radio stations, parallel TV networks, the internetz and even included a daily segment on etalk with the dazzling Ben Mulroney. Well, at least someone’s excited. The show will once again be hosted by “funny” man Russel Peters. There are some decent acts scheduled to perform such as the wonderful Sam Roberts, The Stills, Hawksley Workman, Serena Ryder, City and Colour as well as some of your mom’s favorite adult pop songstresses (and also mine) Kathleen Edwards and Sarah McLachlan. Here are some of the nominees and my predictions…I mean overly optimistic forecast for the night:
New group of the year:
Beast
Cancer Bats
Crystal Castles
Plants and Animals
The Stills
Album of the year:
Hedley – Famous Last Words
The Lost Fingers – Lost In the 80′s
Nickelback – Dark Horse
Simple Plan – Simple Plan
Sylvain Cossette – 70s volume 2
Seriously? Two cover albums and Nickelback?
Alternative album of the year:
Black Mountain – In the Future
Chad VanGaalen – Soft Airplanes
Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life
Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue
The Stills – Oceans Will Rise
Rock album of the year:
Matt Mays and El Torpedo – Terminal Romance
Protest the Hero – Fortress
Sam Roberts – Love At the End of the World
Sloan – Parallel Play
The Trews – No Time For Later
Francophone album of the year (I can’t pick one okay.):
Ariane Moffat – Tous les sens
Caracol – L’arbre aux parfums
Coeur de pirate – Coeur de pirate
Karkwa – Le volume du vent
Swing – Tradarnac
Check out the rest of the nominees here
This show is never complete without a drinking game so here are some suggestions:
1st, you’ll need several beers and maybe a bottle of wine to get through this depending on how many people you can squeeze on your couch Sunday night.
-Everytime Russel Peters makes you feel uncomfortable, take a sip.
-Simple Plan are playing, chug the rest of your (Canadian) beer, go out for a smoke (smoking kills though. Just saying.), call your parents or feed the cat. Just don’t watch Simple Plan.
-Everytime you see Feist in the audience, take a sip and smile.
-Drink to every moose, deer, Olympics, maple syrup or winter reference made by ANYONE.
-If you spot a drunk Stars member in the audience, clap your hands and driiiiink.
-Everytime someone says they’re proud to be Canadian, drink up.
-If someone cries, take the rest of your drink.
-Drink 2 beers every time Nickelback wins.
And the list goes on! Chart also wants you to get drunk, so click here for their drinking game rules!
Did you vote for Feist or anyone that isn’t Nickelback (or Celine Dion or Hedley, The Lost Fingers are from my town, I can’t bash.) for the Juno Fan Choice Award? Don’t you want to see her in a dress saying endearing things in your television set? Yes, yes. The Juno Awards 2009 will air on CTV March 29th at 9pm with an encore presentation at Midnight and a red carpet show beginning at 8pm (etalk at the Junos). Happy Juno week-end everybody!
Zut Alors,
Christine
