Another month of reviews, another Bad Gardening Advice Podcast!
Join podcast hosts Shirley and Rick Hamelin as they dive deep into the wild world of the Winnipeg music scene. And Steve Schmolaris. Mostly Steve Schmolaris. They dissect his unique writing style, turn it inside out in the hopes that his inner identity — his true self — emerges, skin and flesh are flayed with Edwardian scalpels and pinned to a cutting board in gruesome horror, guts exposed for all to see, oh the pain, oh the terror — all without anesthesia.
Each month we recap Bad Gardening Advice reviews; we look for themes, we form conclusions, we go out on (and sever) limbs. And, in this episode, we review body horror and pedestrian crossings…
Open your ears, open your minds, open the Bad Gardening Advice Podcast!
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Steve Schmolaris is the founder of the Schmolaris Prize, “the most prestigious prize in all of Manitoba,” which he first awarded in 1977. Each year, he awards the prize to the best album of the year. He does not have a profession but, having come from money (his father, “the Millionaire of East Schmelkirk,” left him his fortune when he died in 1977), Steve is a patron of the arts. Inspired by the exquisite detail of a holotype, the collective intelligence of slime mold, the natural world and the suffering inherent within it — and also music (fuck, he loves music!) — Steve has long been writing reviews of Winnipeg artists’ songs and albums at his website Bad Gardening Advice, leading to the publication of a book of the same name.
