Next Saturday Canberra will be blessed by arguably the porkiest ska band in the world: The Porkers.

The boys will be making the arduous (Yet infinitely rewarding) journey to our humble city to shower us once again with their delicious pork flavoured ska promoting their new album, 'Live At Nakanoshima'. Following the success of their last all ages show in canberra, The Greenroom (11 Altree court Phillip) will be hosting two shows on the one day; an all ages in the afternoon and an 18+ later that night. Times are as follows:

All Ages $10 Doors Open at 1:30pm

Better Than a Poke in the Eye
The Gingers
Los Capitanes
The Porkers

18+ Show $15 Doors Open at 8:30pm

The Gingers
Los Capitanes
The Porkers

A big floppy hip hip hurray (!) must be extended UNSW for having us at their uni bar last Friday night. We had a sick-sational time on and off the stage thanks mainly to the efforts of the totally necessary Student Union and its mandatory funding scheme (gives enthusiastic thumbs up).

This Friday the 20th come and watch Sydney's Empire Hotel transform into a futuristic ska-topia LITERALLY, as we team up with ska Legends The Porkers and Sydney's pride Bagster. To say this show is going to be a mega-super-big-heaps-good/phat EXTRAVAGANZA would be a disgusting understatement. For those of you who aren't able to make it however fret not! We've got another ALL AGES show with Bagster and the Porkers on the 18th of June at the Greenroom. So keep both eyes out (and an ear or two) for more info coming up really soon. I promise. No seriously.

The run sheet for this Sundays ALL AGES gig at In Blue reads a little something exactly like this:

1:00pm-Lucid Minds
2:00pm-Memorandom
3:00pm-Aussie Diggaz
4:00pm-Never in Doubt
5:00pm-Los Capitanes (us)
6:00pm-Epic Flagon

The cover charge is only $5 and you'll get to see some of Canberra's gnarliest live bands AND support local community radio, hopefully by the end you'll feel like a really tip top all round charitable nice guy person. Los Cap will also be doing an interview on 2xx (98.3FM) this Thursday arvo at 4:45pm, so tune in and you might even hear us flop out a cheeky little acoustic set live on air.

Well well well..."News"

Finally I have some non pope related news, or at least with reduced pope content. Los Capitanes will be playing a mega-phat show on the 6th of May at 'The Round House'. Apparently this is on UNSW campus, so if you live in Sydney and have a fake ID, come and check it out because all signs tell me that this is going to super-tacular. That same weekend on the Sunday (the holiest day on the pope's calendar) we'll be playing at 'In Blue' in civic as part of the huge 2XX fundraising events happening all around the capital. It's an all ages show and is for a bloomin' good cause, 2XX has been helping out local Canberra bands since 39020804500 BC, in fact many believe that the very first kooky breakfast 'gang' consisted of two lovable dinosaurs named...George...and...Kevin... (?).

Moving right along, we don't have any specific details for either of these shows just yet, but rest assured they'll be up in lightening speed.

Long chastised for his silence on the genre debate, closet ska fan John Paul the 2nd has finally passed on to that big heaven in the sky...heaven.

"What the heck does this have to do with me?" I hear you inquire.
"And further more, what the shit is a pontiff?"

Well the answer to both these pressing questions can be found below:

This weekends Youth Week gig has been cancelled because the governor general has selfishly decided to head on up to the funeral of 'senor dead pope'. This means that the gig can't go ahead because it was meant to be at his house, or like in his backyard or something. Now when I first heard this I couldn't decide who was more selfish, the pope or the governor general. After much thought on the issue, I decided however that real culprit was in fact the Bush Administration. Regardless of who died where and who bombed who, the point is that we are sorry to once again cancel a gig so close to the date.

At the moment, the next gig on the horizon appears to be a 2XX fundraiser at the Holy Grail in civic on the 7th of May. It's going to be an all ages affair so everyone get on down and support 2XX, they do an amazing job and its up to the locals to keep 2XX kickin'.

Pontiff is a title of certain religious leaders. It comes from the Latin word pontifex, which literally means bridge-maker, and is in turn derived from an Etruscan word that means a religious leader, not a bridge-maker. It could therefore be construed to mean a bridge between God and humanity. - Nick