On Wednesday nights, I play ultimate frisbee (I took a few boring photos last week). I’ve played for several years, and I’m very bad, but that’s not the point. The point is that last week, I discovered that we’ve got a (say it with me) Sony-BMG Canada Music recording artist on our team.
His name is Jeremy Fisher. According to his Wikipedia entry, his single ‘High School’ “won wide airplay on Canadian commercial radio and music television in early 2005.” I can claim happy ignorance of this fact, as I’m not a listener of Canadian commercial radio.
You can hear “High School”, which sounds great and is a bit reminiscent of Josh Ritter, on Jeremy’s MySpace page (he has the distinction of being the first MySpace site I’ve subscribed to). That site also lays bare his rock star qualities:
I got chased into my hotel room last night after the show, for real. By women. As I was holding my breath behind the locked door my 17-year old self was just shaking his head at me in total disappointment. Sorry I let you down buddy, one day you’ll understand.’
I should have known, given the way he catches the disc one-handed, with a kind of cocky aloofness. To a guy who almost always catches alligator-style, it’s quite impressive.
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I saw him play at Richards last year, opening for someone whose name has slipped my mind. Just him and his guitar, he was pretty good.
I like that High School song. It was being played on Muchmoremusic around the time that my 10 year reunion was coming around, so I found it very fitting as part of my life soundtrack.
I should have mentioned that he’s opening for Great Big Sea next month. Those happy, happy bastards.
Gillian! I can’t believe you!! The person he opened for was Sarah Slean. I also saw Fisher. He’s okay, but needs to mature as an artist. One of his songs was seriously note for note a popular late ’80s-early ’90s song. I didn’t notice but Will did and when he started singing along with the lyrics of the pop song the melodic overlap was uncanny. Funny to hear about the connection to you though.