
Any awards show that honours a band named Holy Fuck , and then allows a broadcast to go out across the (Internet radio) airwaves where the words "Holy Fuck" are constantly repeated is going to be a-okay in my books. It's a different experience listening to an awards show, but when the honourees are musicians, the visual experience would only ever be secondary. So it was that I sat down to listen to the live broadcast of last night's Polaris Music Prize from the Phoenix Concert Theatre in lovely downtown Toronto. In my mind's [...]