Power Pop Santa

The Pointed Sticks were formed in 1978 by vocalist Nick Jones, guitarist Bill Napier-Hemy, bassist Tony Bardach and drummer Ian Tiles; keyboard player Gord Nicholl joined later. After releasing several singles and undergoing a number of personnel changes, the band released their debut album, Perfect Youth, in 1980. They disbanded the following year.

The band reformed after a hiatus of twenty-five years to play shows in Japan. They recently played a sold out performance in their hometown of Vancouver, B.C. More shows and recording are planned.


This year they released a Christmas song



You can get a free download of this song and much more info over at the Pointed Sticks website.

Four calling Birds! Really?

Calling Birds refers to the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists. And in other news the traditions, in Canada at least, came from Dickens.

Canadian Rich Little once did a production of Dickens "A Christmas Carol"