Not long after they were booed at their Toronto concert by an angry Canadian crowd the band cancelled the remaining two concerts as a support act for Willie Nelson and Ray Price, in Montréal, Québec and London, Ontario. Official reason mentioned on the Boxmasters’ website: one of the band members had the flu.

Yeh, right. (more…)

A day after his non-interview on CBD radio program Q, presented by Jian Ghomeshi, in which he said that “Canadian audiences are like masked patatoes without the gravy”, he went on record to say that he “loves” Canada?

Yeh – right. A really poor attempt at damage control.

When asked about the “mashed patatoes without the gravy” he now says he was talking about the radio host, while this movie of the entire interview shows that he was talking about Canadian audiences:

“Canadian audiences seem to be very reserved. (…) Well, it’s mashed patatoes and no gravy, you know what I’m saying?”

Here is a short movie item on the Globe & Mail’s website (a Canadian newspaper).

This blog is about the power of association. Many celebrities use their celebrity for other causes, being it for humanitarian causes (Bono) or starting a band. An exception may be Billy Bob Thornton.An interview on April 8 2009 by CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi with him and his fellow musicians from the band Boxmasters completely  derailed as the host introduced the “principal singer, songwriter and drummer” to the radio audience as an “Oscar winning screen writer, actor and director”. Billy Bob went all weird from there on…

He is not using his movie career to promote his band – he would like to go into a witness protection program, get a new face and a new identity, so that his musical accomplishments as a drummer in the band The Boxmasters are purely judged on their musical genius.  According to himself (in the interview) nobody has made their type of music “for the last 30 years”. And Billy Bob knows this for a fact, as he “grew up as pretty much a music historian”.

The Interview on CBS’s Q – With Jian Ghomeshi

The man previously known as Billy Bob Thornton (M.P.K.A.B.B.T.) completely blew up in an interview with accomplished and respected Canadian CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi, all because he dared introducing him as someone with a movie career. Ah well, it must have been due to his self-described “lower middle-class, white trash upbringing.” (quote taken from the Boxmasters’ website) (more…)