Podcasts sobre Grant Lawrence

Handy Candy takes a terrible tumble from her shoreline rocks on the evening of Desolation Sound's annual Full Moon Float in this final chapter of the series.Por Oceanside Productions

Handy Candy shows a physical will and sheer determination to get to her cabin that has possibly never been seen before or since in Desolation Sound.Por Oceanside Productions

Handy Candy continues to improve "Camp Candy", and sees opportunities for other neighbouring properties to clean up as well, believing strongly that "how things look matters." Some neighbours don't take kindly to Candy's unsolicited opinions.Por Oceanside Productions

Handy Candy rents a broken down cabin in Desolation Sound which she discovers is already occupied.Por Oceanside Productions

Handy Candy decides it's time to buy a lot in Desolation Sound, but her husband Bob has other plans, which comes as a shock.Por Oceanside Productions

Handy Candy and her husband Bob discover the ultimate sea kayaking campsite in Desolation Sound, so good that it would remain their driftwood camping kingdom for 14 straight summers. Where is it? Have a listen.Por Oceanside Productions

Handy Candy and her newlywed husband Bob make their first-ever trip to Desolation Sound, in a double yellow kayak. On that trip they stumbled across a spectacular location that would serve as "Camp Candy" for the next several years.Por Oceanside Productions

Find out how Handy Candy Anderson went from a childhood of living all over the USA with a father who worked for the Pentagon, to discovering the coastal Canadian wilderness of Desolation Sound.Por Oceanside Productions

With her brand new boat hung up on the rocks on a dropping tide, Handy Candy makes a big mistake: she gets out of "Tinkerbell" to give it a shove, but the outboard engine is running, and in gear. Reverse gear.Por Oceanside Productions

In this new series, Handy Candy, one of the most beloved characters from Grant Lawrence's books "Adventures in Solitude" and "Return to Solitude", takes centre stage for a series that charts Candy's artistic, danger-prone, off-grid lifestyle that has spanned over 40 years in the oceanic wilds of Desolation Sound, BC. This is "Handy Candy: Coastal C…

The Smugglers and the Queers make a shocking discovery while searching for the Buddy Holly plane crash site in the corn fields of Iowa.Por Oceanside Productions

We chronicle some of the most bizarre punk rock crash pads we ever slept at, which includes one of the most infamous and disgusting tour stories in Smugglers history. You have been warned!Por Oceanside Productions

Maxwell's, the famed music venue in Hoboken, New Jersey, infamously catches fire during a Smugglers performance.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers tour with the Mr. T Experience devolves into a full-blown punk rock riot at the show in Denver.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers make their most popular album with Mass Giorgini, plus the band hires infamous roadie Ska-T while embarking on the first wildly successful Lookout tour with the Mr T Experience. And Larry Livermore is everywhere.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers meet pop-punk icon and Lookout Records co-founder Larry Livermore, learning of his fascinating history. As well, the Smugglers play a fateful show at the Purple Onion with the Ne'er Do Wells and the Groovie Ghoulies.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers take a very, very wrong turn into the scariest town in America, then figure it out to play one of the most notorious venues in Texas: "Taco Land" in San Antonio.Por Oceanside Productions

Grant suffers his mostly potentially deadly physical assault while on tour (which is saying a lot) and the Smugglers tour the Deep South with bands like Man... Or Astro-Man? and the heavily armed trio the Subsonics.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers meet cub, an all-women twee pop band that would become a North American indie sensation... and lead to several ego-crushing moments for the Smugglers when the two bands embark on tour together.Por Oceanside Productions

Hear the wild stories behind the Smugglers first-ever New York City show at punk rock mecca CBGB, their bloody Chicago show with the Dwarves, and more rock 'n' roll action!Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers enter the urban wilds of New York City for the first time, and the band gets a crash course on NYC street-smarts... or dumbs, in Grant's case.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers lead singer Grant Lawrence pulls a horrendously stupid, life-threatening stunt on the way into Washington D.C. for a Memorial Day gig with Thee Flypped Whigs.Por Oceanside Productions

The shows are getting better, but the touring for beleaguered Smugglers drummer Bryce gets even worse in the American South.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers suffer through their Worst Show Of All Time in Phoenix, Arizona, one that would leave a permanent and collective mental scar.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers roll into a smouldering Los Angeles in the charred and shattered aftermath of the Rodney King Riots.Por Oceanside Productions

Legendary punk band NoMeansNo help out the Smugglers in finding the ultimate touring van. In Portland, the Smugglers discover the X-Ray Cafe, the 24-hour Church of Elvis, and that... their new van isn't working properly.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers actually win something and are flown to Ottawa to perform on national TV and dine with the Governor General of Canada. With mixed results.Por Oceanside Productions

Nobody ever believes the story contained in this chapter, but we swear, it's true! Bounce-bounce-SMACK.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers get a smackdown of culture shock when playing their first-ever show in San Francisco. Also: your emails received and read!Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers enter California for the first time and almost immediately get into a nasty encounter with Golden State bangers.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers perform at the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia during the sizzling summer of 1991, which changes the band's fortunes for years to come in the U.S.A.Por Oceanside Productions

Grant is forced to ingloriously perform an entire set from a rainy sidewalk in Bellingham when he forgets his fake I.D. back in Canada.Por GL

Despite the band name, the Smugglers plot, strategize, and attempt to cross the border into the rock 'n' roll promised land of America.Por G.L.

The Smugglers take the blame for the thorough and absolute trashing of the Hoodoo Gurus' dressing room at an infamous show with the Aussie hitmakers and the Young Fresh Fellows at the University of Manitoba.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers discover Amigos, wild new rock 'n' roll oasis on the prairies, and in the process, form a bond with the club that would endure for 30 years. And they discover what a "rider" is.Por Oceanside Productions

The Smugglers play another one of Nardwuar's wild all ages gigs, this time with Mudhoney at the height of their grunge infamy, and everything seems to go right and wrong all at once.

Smugglers drummer Paul offers a cash reward to harmonica player Adam if he completes a disgusting challenge in the middle of the scorching prairies.Por Oceanside Productions

Nardwuar and Grant host a gig for their all time favourite band in a church basement that turns into a congregation of chaos.Por Oceanside Productions

In this chapter, you'll hear about the profound impact that the Smugglers' high school friend and future media star Nardwuar had on the band and the culture at their high school.Por GL

Grant Lawrence poses as "Larry the booking agent" in an ill-fated attempt to hustle clubs across Western Canada to book the Smugglers in the late 1980s.Por GL

Grant Lawrence reads the fourth wild chapter - this time fighting off prairie bangers - from his award-winning rock 'n' roll memoir.Por GL

Grant Lawrence reads the third (and disgusting) chapter from his award-winning rock 'n' roll memoir "Dirty Windshields: the best and the worst of the Smugglers tour diaries."Por GL

Grant Lawrence reads the second chapter of his award-winning rock 'n' roll memoir "Dirty Windshields: the best and the worst of the Smugglers Tour Diairies" (Douglas and McIntyre, 2017).Por GL

Grant Lawrence reads the first chapter of his award-winning rock 'n' roll memoir "Dirty Windshields: the best and the worst of the Smugglers Tour Diairies" (Douglas and McIntyre, 2017).Por GL

Grant Lawrence is the author of "Dirty Windshields: the best and the worst of the Smugglers Tour Diairies" (Douglas and McIntyre, 2017), and the lead singer of the Smugglers. For the first time, Grant reads this award-winning wild rock 'n' roll ride for you chapter by chapter. First up... the hair-raising prologue.…

This is a special updated Easter Weekend 2020 broadcast of the touring show "Grant Lawrence and Friends: Stories and Songs", recorded live at the Max Cameron Theatre in Powell River, BC in 2019. This show features musical performances from three Juno Award-winning Canadian artists: Said the Whale, Jay Malinowski from Bedouin Soundclash, and Kathryn…

When Wayne orders Linda to leave the cabin to allow him with to deal with his illness, she finds herself alone against the wilderness facing an uncertain future in Desolation Sound.Por GL

Wayne receives news that radically changes their lives in the wilderness.Por G.Lawrence

Linda is forced to take a treacherous night hike through forest and cliff edge when Wayne fails to pick up her at their oyster lease after another late night wild pick.Por G.Lawrence

Linda is left stranded on a beach during a late night oyster pick with no source of light besides the moon.Por G. Lawrence