Moxy Frouvous

Subject: Moxy Frouvous
From: Cllr
Date: 15 Mar 03 - 07:46 PM

I was hugely impressed by this Canadian band and I saw them a few times when they came over to the UK. Does any one know any more about them. I heard they had split up and were following solo projects. Cllr

Subject: RE: Moxy Frouvous
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Mar 03 - 07:55 PM

There is an old thread on them here but of course that doesn't answer your question.:-)Sorry.

Subject: RE: Moxy Frouvous
From: GUEST,Steve Latimer
Date: 15 Mar 03 - 08:49 PM

I have a poster from '94 when they played Mariposa. I missed them, I heard they were very good. I'm stiil pissed at Big Sugar who were on the main stage when my sisters Susan and Joanne were on a smaller stage being drowned out.

Subject: RE: Moxy Frouvous
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Mar 03 - 09:13 PM

The Official Fruvous Web Site

Subject: RE: Moxy Frouvous
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 15 Mar 03 - 10:46 PM

Great band. Wayyy too intellectual to really hit it big but they certainly made their mark.

Jian is everywhere on TV these days. CBC grabbed him very fast. He's ethnic but probably still a hoser! I think the bigwigs flipped at the chance to get him.

Rick

Subject: RE: Moxy Frouvous
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 11:09 AM

Jian Ghomeshi hosts a show on Newsworld called Play. He's about the most self-centered, full of himself, irritating twerp on Canadian TV. Even more irritating than Mike Bullard.

But he's young, he's virile and it is his time to play.

Subject: RE: Moxy Frouvous
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 11:17 AM

No body, even on CBC is more irritating than Mike Bullard....

Unless you cound ANYBODY in a Bad Boy commercial!

Subject: RE: Moxy Frouvous & T.O. circa 1990
From: Hester
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 11:59 AM

I've met Jian Ghomeshi several times, and he is every bit as much a twit as he appears to be on TV. But I actually didn't mind Moxy Frouvous's music; it was fun. Nothing terribly "intellectual" about it though. The "Authors" song was pretty pretentious, but I took it to be ironic.

I prefer the early Barenaked Ladies, though.

And my personal favourite from the Toronto busker scene of that era was The Lost Dakotas, an acoustic cow-punk duo, who recorded two CDs: "Last Train to Kipling" and "Sun Machine."   Both long OOP, but pick them up if you ever see them in delete bins or used record stores. Fantastic! And if we're playing "one degree of separation", the Lost Dakotas have musical ties to the current bands The Sadies and Stratochief, and singer/songwriter Adam Faux.

Cheers, Hester