Rebekah Higgs: Sobama Episode 6

Rebekah explores the Halifax Noise Scene with Meat Tree, plays another episode of the Maria Bamford Show, plays some of her favorite music and some of your requests.

Listen Here:


or download it here - as always I'll save a copy for when CKDU's archives drop it.

If you missed any check out
Episode 4 & 5
Episode 3
Episode 2
Episode 1

Get the CBC on Your iPhone

Back in July I posted I Heart Radio - which told you how to build a playlist of campus, community and public radio stations across Canada. An update on that is in the works with even more stations but - it's not enough to have it all at home or work is it? The CBC has launched a new application for the iPhone and iPod touch which will let you listen to CBC Radio 1, 2 and 3 as well as audio from CBC Television and even more:

Highlights:
Works on any iPhone or iPod Touch with OS 2.2.1 or higher’
Thousands of hours of audio content from CBC Radio One, Radio 2 and Radio 3
Easy access to live programs and on-demand shows through Favourites option
Sleep timer
Browse CBC.ca content while listening to audio

Best of all - it's your CBC and you already pay for it which means that the application to get all of this stuff is totally and completely free just visit cbc.ca/mobile/iphone!

Rebekah Higgs: Sobama Show Episodes 4 and 5

If you've missed either of the last two episodes of Rebekah Higgs last two shows on CKDU I've got them here: Listen to Rebekah spin some great tunes, play some of her favorite comedy and fill you in on going's on in Halifax.

Pay special attention to Episode 5 where Rebekah is joined by Laura Dawe for an extensive discussion of her film "The Inevitability of Something That Once Felt Impossible" and the fundraising efforts that will enable Dawe to finish making it - including Jenn Grant's upcoming Ninja brithday party fundraiser. More info on all of that is over here!

Episode 5

Download it Here

Episode 4

Download It Here

If you missed any of the first three check out
Episode III
Episode II
Episode I

and if any of these ever disappear give me a shout and I'll find a way to get them to you (they are hosted at CKDU right now, but I'm keeping copies.)

Rebekah Higgs: Radio Host the Sequel

Today Rebekah Higgs took her second shot at being a radio host on Halifax's CKDU playing her favorite music and comedy. This episode features an interview with a member of Halifax comedy troop Picnic Face and a plug for Dawe's Fundraising Auction - where they are auctioning paintings to raise money to make a movie.

If you missed Rebekah's Show you can still hear it below (note there is a little extra on either end). If you missed the first one then you can find it here - Just don't miss it next week, she'll be back from 2:30 to 4 Atlantic Time on CKDU.



Or download it there or if the link goes dead get in touch - I'll keep a copy.

If you'd like to see the video that Rebekah played the audio from watch this:

All About Halifax



and if you've been saying to yourself "I really need to listen to more campus/community radio because I'm missing some good shit" then you'll want to check this out!

Rebekah Higgs Makes Radio Hosting Debut on CKDU

You might know her as Rebekah Higgs or you might know her as Ruby Jean - in either case she made her debut as a radio host today on CKDU in Halifax, talked about the Polaris Prize, talked about inventing words, told some drinking stories and played some of her favorite Canadian bands, plus some of her favorite comedy, and had an interview with Jon McKiel (alot of stuff crammed into 90 minutes). Pure Awesomeness!

I've also just gotten word that Rebekah will be doing it again on CKDU from 2:30 - 4 (Atlantic Time) - next tuesday, so put it in your calendar and tune in (from anywhere in the world online if you don't happen to live in Halifax.)

You can download the .pls file (to add it to your iTunes radio stations) at http://ckdu.dal.ca/ckdu-hi.pls!

You can also use this groovy tool - which lets you pick segments of CKDU programming by time slot and stream it or download it (remember Atlantic time zone). That's how I can easily do this:

Listen to Rebekah Higgs Radio Debut (a little extra on the beginning and end)


or download it http://ckdu.dal.ca/20090714.14.39-16.03.mp3. (I don't know how long they keep these archives for - if it doesn't work drop an email to nothbyeastwest at gmail.com - I'll have a copy.)

You might also want to check out this (if you listen to the show you'll know why).

Laura Barrett & Rebekah Higgs - Robot Ponies

Rebekah Higgs' Debut as Radio Host (and other updates)

Tomorrow (June 14, 2009) on Halifax radio station CKDU Rebekah Higgs will make her debut as a radio host. According to Higgs this is only a guest spot, we'll have to wait and see if she picks up the bug or not: If you'd like to tune in Rebekah will be on the air from 2:30 - 4 pm and she's promising that she'll

"...i will be playing a slew of Canadian Music. Including my Top Ten picks for Polaris that are NOT on the Short list.

also on the show, some of my favorite Youtube Sound Clips.

The Gossip vs The News

Phone ins

Picnicface highlights

and an interview with Jon Mckiel!"

More info is available on the Facebook Event Page. If you're in Halifax you can tune in at 88.1 FM, if you're not you can listen online at ckdu.ca!

In other Higgs news I just got word that she'll be playing a free, all ages show in Halifax at noon on Thursday as part of Tunes at Noon. go here for details.

You can also download Rebekah's Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees session at CIUT in Toronto by clicking here!

Rebekah Higgs - Parables

Private Metric Shows In Western Canada

From their blog:

Big News!

Jimmy and I just agreed to do a series of 5 private acoustic appearances in Western Canada at the end of the month with support from some local radio stations in each of the cities we're going to visit... but there is a twist. There won't be any tickets sold for these shows. Originally, the only way to get in was going to be through radio station contests, but since we're going to be passing through and we always want to take care of you guys, we decided to move the shows into slightly bigger venues, while still keeping it totally intimate, so we can give out some tickets directly to fans. There are very few tickets available, so click here to enter to win.

We're also holding back some tickets for people who pre-ordered the record directly from us. Half of them will go exclusively to those who pre-ordered the deluxe limited edition, and the other half will go to anyone who bought any one of the Fantasies packages. These tickets will be randomly distributed.

For anyone who can't make it or doesn't end up being able to get tickets, don't worry, we're planning another massive Canadian tour for later this year.

I won tickets just now from a Vancouver radio station The Peak after calling for days and days. Needless to say, I'm deliriously happy! (Sorry lioness.)

Vancouver show details:

Thursday, April 23
The Media Club
**19+ show

Cera Live on CFUR Radio

I believe I mentioned yesterday that Cera is some sort of post-hardcorey (I don't do genres well) that manages to stand outside of most of the heavy-but-not type of music that I generally don't like. They are also kind of a Prince George supergroup, taking players from old scenemaking bands in the Prince George arena. Perhaps one day I should do a post on them. But right now I'll just let you know that in anticipation of their show tomorrow, they are appearing on CFUR radio, the campus station of UNBC, on what I think could well be the station's longest-running show, Fur Gone Wild (hey, it's in the Thursday sweet spot, if CFUR was NBC and this was the late 90s, it would be Friends and Seinfeld).

Anyways, the band will be performing an acoustic set at 7:00 pm Pacific Time. If you're in Prince George, that's 88.7 fm, and for the rest of the world, you can check it streaming at cfur.ca.

Oh, and we just passed 100 posts here. Congrats everyone.