There really should be a rule against having nominees as hosts. It’s… awkward, at best.
A lot of volunteers put a lot of work into making this happen, and it’s unfortunate that the show itself is such a wreck. I watched it on TV while grooming dogs, the Tragically Hip coming in a distant second to the hairdryer. When one finds oneself waxing nostalgic for k.d. lang, you know things are going badly.
Here she comes, host Nelly Furtado, floating in on cables, trying to sing “I’m Like A Bird”… and suddenly you just know it’s all wrong. Nelly knocks a banner off the roof, shakes her arms, stops singing, and yells to be let down. She’s obviously more than a bit nervous, and it takes some time, but she’s finally on the stage. Come on though – can you say, “not according to plan”? She screwed that up faster than you can say YouTube. Definitely unfortunate, but did anyone really think Nelly would be a cool host? Keep singing darlin, and leave the hosting to people with personalities.
All things considered, the Saskatoon appearance by Stephane Dion, bring his “Pledge To Keep Jailing Farmers For Selling Their Own Grain” speech may have been the highpoint of the day.
And I missed that, too.
One wears many hats when the talent gene pool is as shallow as the Junos display.
Watched the curling game. It was more exciting.
Go Howard.
more pap from CBCpravda who would have it all k.d.lang and Rufus Wainwright if they could .
http://www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/durham/20070330.html
Mssr.Dion says the “whit bored” will fail if the farmers pull out. Cant they move it and the snivel servants to Quebec to administer their barley crop. Surely such a service to the beer swilling provincal home to molsons would be welcome.
da pipples of kay bec doughnut nid da service of the whit bored like da pipples of the prayer re prove ances.Borat Dion.
Dion was at the post Juno party, according to Sheemus on ctv this a.m. He was also there. No clips of him tho.
What’s so wrong about letting farmers decide the fate of the Wheat Board? They’re the experts aren’t they? It’s their living.
Dion must have old yeller,Potato Head Wayne Easter’s boisterous rants ringing in his little ears to the brainwashing point.
Doubt if Steffawn has given much thought to or has much expertise in the Wheat business having spent most of his life in the halls of academia and in the French language.
That’s fine but the guy wants to lead this vast country with a very narrow experience within it. He can’t even enunciate enough of the English language to be understood by the majority.
Has Stephanie DeYawn even seen a kernel of wheat before it was made into a croissant served at the Laurier?
I would have loved to have seen his speech here Kate ( was it outdoors…gasp!… oh no not having to cope with real air too?)It must have been like watching a worm on a skillet…totally out of his element.
The Only time I saw this buffoon was in Calgary and he seemed totally out of sorts there.
What a schmuck..color him gone west of NorthBay..I can see the west going totally blue this time.
did i miss something….didn’t i just vote on the future of the cwb with respect to barley marketing???? these clowns had better cut the bs and get down to business….we want change and borat dion, ken rotter,wayne eastern and rabid ralph had better get with the program and help make it happen. the questions were clear and their side lost.
Hey, keep your eyes on the the farming events across the country, Steffi will be there. We may get a shot of him doing the plowing match circuit. He’ll be the one wearing the seatbelt on a tractor in a field near you.
It’s all about EXPOSURE for Steffi, to know him is to love him, yadda, yadda.
All due respects, but Sask invented Canadian socialism. It’s up to them them to uninvent it.
What are the Junos? Isn’t it still April?
Heard S.D. had an “audience” for his Saskatoon speech re: CWB.
Anyone know of the ‘body count’ at that event?
According to radio, there was a pretty good crowd – Lib supporters, pro CWB and pro open marketing, and the mixture made for a tense atmosphere.
All i can say is, “Thank GOD, they didn’t pull out that ‘ old american( sorry, I meant Saskatoon native ) hag, Joni Mitchell ! Thank GOD. Carl
Re Joni Mitchell.
I thought Ft. Mcleod claimed her as their horrid spawn.
“I can see the west going totally blue this time.”
Glad to see you’re back on board W.L.
With French Citizen and hard core Trotsky Communist, Stephany Pion as the alternative, how could you not be?
Didn’t watch the Junos, but agree that nominees should not be hosts. It usually becomes a one-woman show when the host also does most of the winning. Yawn.
The only exception to that might be Jann Arden, she is one funny woman. Otherwise, stick with comedians to do the hosting.
I was there, there were a lot of people there, but I didn’t get the impression that they were all friendly towards the postition being presented by Borat and friends. Charlie Anderson’s group was there (I don’t know if they have a name or not) Anyways there were a lot of people I saw there leaning on there cane’s and looking pretty feeble, there was also the people who come because it is a general airing of grievences and so people complain all the time anyway. As a side note he spoke about 20 percent of the time in french, does he realize what province he is in? Ukrainian maybe!
Nice to know those in attendance had the good manners not to get up and walk out when he went into french. Maybe they should have booed loudly and walked out. Someone must have had a camera or video of somekind so maybe it will show up on utube.
I didn’t see the Juno’s, but from the articles I’ve read it looks like kd lang did a good job.
I saw kd about 10 years ago at the Sydney Opera House in Australia (of all places – I was there on business) and I was not a fan of hers – I was actually trying to see what the acoustics were like in this wild looking structure in the harbour – but she put on a great show and the aussies went wild because she has a very powerful voice. She was humourous and cracked some tasteful lesbo jokes – because I think she had just come out of the closet at that time.
Anyway, good for her.
LMAO!
3w.youtube.com/watch?v=hcMeDaVBUWE
Canada used to have talented singer/songwriters–Joni Mitchell being one of them–apologies to Carl and cal2!! (Ian and Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, most of The Band, etc. Whatever their politics, almost totally lib/left, they were talented…)
I tuned into the Junos twice last night: Once when Nelly Furtado was being groped by a black backup singer (male) and once when one of the Tragically Hip guys was reading, I repeat, reading, a paean to some other singer.
In both cases, tragically Pathetic.
This is what government protectionism, in the form of grants and subsidies, has done to Canadian “arts” and “culture”: It’s killed them.
RIP and, please, may the Canadian taxpayer not be asked to subsidize this garbage anymore?
George Bush likes Joni Mitchell. He has her on his ipod. So she can’t be so bad, right?
I think the name Joni Michelle was mentioned once during the whole show and yah they could have been better at selecting the groups to play but let face most of us aren’t in the demographic that show was aiming for. The best was a 13 year old guitar (yah I forgot is name) from Saskatoon that belted out an awsemome version of American Women, easly the most impreesive acted that nite.
Oh I’m pretty left leaning and I think Dion a Boob