It’s that time again! So Ho Ho – let’s go! We’ve loaded up the jukebox (below) with two seasonal songs for the holidays. And please don’t forget to join us at The Waldorf on Dec. 18th for the 28th Annual Xmas Spectacular with The Frank Frink Five!

After 32 years, the Pointed Sticks and Devo are playing together again, Sunday, September 18th at The Vogue in Vancouver.  More info here.  Few tickets remain – come join the fun!

Hi everyone, and welcome to our newly updated Pointed Sticks website! As usual, our graphics guru Richard Chapman has come up with an exciting package for your perusement. My personal favourite is the mock cover for the imaginary “Igor Said” single cover. The big man finally gets his due!

As for the band ourselves, although it may look like things are a bit stagnant in PS world, with only one gig to show for ourselves since our trip to Japan last year…in reality, everyone has been very busy. Bill has finished another year of shaping the young musical minds of his Fraser Academy students. Ian has been gigging with numerous bands, and raising young O’Malley, who celebrated his first birthday in July. Gord has been gainfully employed in the DTES, both as a social servant, and as a producer/engineer extraordinaire at Paramount Studios. Tony has been running his business, the Dental Lab, and it seems as though theres something interesting happening there almost every night. He’s still playing with LGA and Slowpoke, and the latest rumour has him starting his own label. Called, of course, Dental Records. Me, I’ve managed a Frink gig or two in between bouts as a corporate slave. I’m also working on the musical resurrection of Mr. Bud Luxford, but that’s pretty hush hush for now.

But what of the Pointed Sticks you ask? Well, right now I’d compare us to an iceberg. Lots more beneath the surface than you can actually see. After the critically acclaimed, and commercially disastrous release of “Three Lefts Make A Right”  in November of 2009, we felt that we’d closed a circle that we’d opened in 1978, and the chances of us making another record looked pretty slim at the time. But it’s 2011 now, and we have 8 songs written for a new record. I’d describe the overall feel as a sort of post glam meditation on the follies of love and relationships, as seen through a filter of bubblegum, cigarette smoke, and alcohol …among the songs is an unfinished ditty that Gord and Bill Scherk wrote years ago for Los Pops, and also a collaboration with our friend Tsuneglam Sam from Japan’s Young Parisiennes …..pretty fun stuff, and hopefully we’ll manage to get it all down over the fall/winter and spring the finished results on our expectant public by next spring …oh yeah, and there will be an xmas gig somewhere, open to suggestions…

NJ