Metallica Through The Never
As someone who is uniquely capable of charming old metalheads, Sarah was tasked with interviewing the members of Metallica when they were at the Toronto International Film Festival to promote their Metallica Through The Never film.
She spoke to all of ’em except James and had a particularly artful time chatting with the often-maligned Lars Ulrich.
To check out the resulting feature head over to Huffington Post Music Canada here.
Filed under Concerts, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Bruce Springsteen at 121212
In the aftermath of TIFF and having to watch the 121212 documentary Sarah was tasked with creating a listicle about the best benefit concert films ever made.
She hit upon all the big ones: The Concert For Bangladesh, Live Aid, The Bridge School 25th Anniversary and a whole bunch more.
To check out the list head over to Huffington Post Music Canada here.
Filed under Concerts, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
Godspeed You! Black album cover
By now most good musicos are aware that Godspeed You! Black Emperor won the 2013 Polaris Music Prize.
We also know how that turned out.
What folks don’t know is that because of a combination of indifference, content hoarding and a dismal sense of history on the part of previous Polaris Gala broadcasters, this is the first time you can actually go back and watch the full awards show broadcast without worrying about it disappearing from the internet.
So please go back and watch the telecast via Aux TV if you haven’t. I was responsible for writing a solid seven per cent of the dialogue that came out of co-hosts Kathleen Edwards and Shad’s mouths.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3sUG8RfkKA
Filed under Concerts, Music, Recollections, Shameless Promotion, Television
Ron Howard, Beyonce, Jay-Z
When Ron Howard blew into Toronto for TIFF recently he held a Q&A session after the screening of his Jay-Z documentary Made In America.
Sarah was there for the event and wrote a story about it.
One of the things Howard said: “I was watching Jay-Z and I thought of Frank Sinatra. Which doesn’t really make sense. But good is good.”
To read the whole story head over to Huffington Post Music Canada by clicking here.
Filed under Concerts, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
12-12-12 Concert Benefiting The Robin Hood Relief Fund To Aid The Victims Of Hurricane Sandy
The Risky Fuel household experienced an electric jolt of concern recently after finding out that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein didn’t appreciate an uncomfortably valid characterization Sarah made about Kristen Stewart in an article she wrote about the aftermath of the 12.12.12 documentary gala screening at TIFF 2013.
During a post-screening Q&A Weinstein talked about how, for $500,000, they had arranged for the Twilight actress to meet ‘n’ greet with an Arabian prince while at the charity concert to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy. And, there’s more… but you’ll have to ask her about it in person.
Let’s just say we had the conversation “What if I get blacklisted?” Our conclusion: you can’t blacklist people who don’t actually have much of anything to be blacklisted from, so here’s to being poor, powerless, insignificant and… free.
Weinstein was also mighty unhappy the concert’s organizing posse couldn’t force Led Zeppelin to reunite.
To actually understand what all I’m talking about, head over to Huffington Post Music Canada and read the story here.
Filed under Concerts, Films, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 