Matt Good Banned In Regina?

The fallout continues in the Great Canadian Shoe Throwing incident after Matt Good accused the Regina rock station The Wolf (CFWF 104.9) of having pulled all the Matthew Good Band songs from their playlist.

"I just learned I've been banned from the radio in Regina for the rest of my natural life. Woo-Hoo!" said Good, in an interview with ChartAttack on Friday. "Last month in the [Matthew Good Band website] Manifesto I wrote an entire account of the shoe throwing incident. In the [Regina] newspaper story all the guys from the radio station called me 'hard to handle' and attacked my character a little bit right? I wrote back that the only reason they've got jobs in that market is they're not good enough to get jobs in a real market.

"They took it very personally. Obviously, they can't take it back. So we got this phone call that they'll never play me on the radio station again. I'm not talking new single releases. I'm talkin' the whole fuckin' catalogue."

For those of you who've been under a rock for the last couple months, here's the synopsis:

Matt Good is at a festival in Regina. Matt does a live-to-air interview with The Wolf where he swears on-air. Radio people get irked. Matt plays show. During show Matt gets hit in face with flying shoe. Matt storms off stage. People of Regina get angry. Matt writes on his web page about how much he dislikes Regina. The Wolf support people of Regina.

Chris White, managing director of The Wolf, and object of much of Matt's attack responded to the Good accusations saying, "That's funny that he'd think that we'd banned him. No, absolutely not. We're more professional than that."

He says only that they're not playing the newest single, "The Future Is X-Rated," but that they are playing MGB back catalogue.

"As far as the new single, we haven't got on the new single because we're not a record breaking station," says White. "And as far as 'The Future Is X-Rated' it just doesn't have enough backing for us to add it at this point."

White also says that Good's comments about Regina have earned him no shortage of hatred from the prairie city.

"We've been asked by hundreds of our listeners to get rid of him [from the playlist]. It'll be an interesting, long period of time before Matt plays here again. They're sick of him," says White.

Of course, this whole exercise for Can-Rock's agent provocateur number one is only serving to work Good up even further.

"I've got the #1 video on MuchMusic and the radio doesn't even play it [The Future Is X-Rated]? That's fuckin' genius. Let 'em. Let 'em, I love it. They can sit on it and fuckin' rotate as far as I'm concerned. I love it, I've just been shunned by a whole fuckin' city. It's beautiful," says Good.

A quick scan of The Wolf's charts indicate that there are no Matthew Good Band songs like "Strange Days" or "Load Me Up" are in the station's Top 30, although bands like Treble Charger ("American Psycho") and Our Lady Peace ("Thief") have singles on that chart that were released during a similar time-frame and are of a similar profile.

In this battle of words the only real way to find out who's right in this argument is to listen to the radio station. White says that tonight they'll be playing "Apparitions" at 9 p.m. and then "Load Me Up" at 11 p.m. We'll find out then whether the ban is in effect or not.

ChartAttack encourages any Regina-area listener to tune in and pull the old confirm or deny for us. We can be reached at the usual feedback addresses.