Wide Mouth Mason

Wide Mouth Mason — Shot Down Satellites

Feeling heartbroken? Got a relationship going down the shitter? Don't worry, because Wide Mouth Mason understand you and they want to help. The boys from Saskatoon are back after a three-year absence with a collection of thoroughly pissed-off songs that address these social conundrums. Kicking off with "I Love Not Loving You," lead...
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Wide Mouth Mason - Shot Down Satellites

Big Sugar, 54-40, Wide Mouth Mason To Honour Crafty Crabs At Crabfest 2010

We don't have anything against bands with a touch of grey in their hair. We really don't. But for the second time in two weeks, we are nevertheless going to lightheartedly poke fun at a festival lineup that seems a little, shall we say, retro. Big Sugar, 54-40 and Wide Mouth Mason will headline the 1997 (at least, that’s what year it seems to be...
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I Read The News Today... For May 20, 2010

Students in Macclesfield, England, are writing a Joy Division-inspired symphony as a tribute to late singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide 30 years ago this past Tuesday (May 18). —BBC News A public memorial for the late Ronnie James Dio will be held on May 30 in Los Angeles. —MTV News Mick Jagger would like drugs to be legalized on Britain'...
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Wide Mouth Mason OK With Getting Bootlegged In China

Wide Mouth Mason's release of their Live! Montreux, Switzerland album has reminded everyone that they're still kicking around and are a solid band to boot. CHARTattack spoke with lead singer/guitarist Shaun Verreault to find out what's been going on with the band. CHARTattack: So you live in Vancouver now. Shaun Verreault: I do. I made the move...
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Wide Mouth Mason Remember Life As Traveling Gang

Wide Mouth Mason have been keeping things quiet lately. Once MuchMusic darlings, the past decade has seen the band gradually drift out of the spotlight. Vocalist Shaun Verreault doesn't seem to mind too much. He speaks of a comeback but it sounds designed more to reconnect with old fans than to win new ones. Stage one of the comeback was a live...
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Wide Mouth Mason Singer On Canadian Pacific Holiday Train

Wide Mouth Mason singer Shaun Verreault is riding the good cause train this holiday season. Verreault is a part of the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train, which is raising food and money for food banks and towns in Canada and the United States. The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train has raised $4 million and two million pounds of food and sets out across...
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Wide Mouth Mason — Live! Montreux, Switzerland

Despite being one of the best blues rock groups in the world, Wide Mouth Mason never seemed to creatively get out of Saskatchewan. Their name, probably the biggest obstacle to their success, is a local term for a type of canning jar, and they dressed like farmers in their music videos. So when Wide Mouth Mason played international stages, such...
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Wide Mouth Mason's Live! Montreux, Switzerland

Wide Mouth Mason Releasing Live CD/DVD

Remember Canadian rockers Wide Mouth Mason? Those of you whose memory of the '90s Can-rock band is fading are in luck because they'll release a DVD/CD package of their "legendary live performances" on Nov. 10. Live! Montreux, Switzerland features their 1997 and 1999 performances at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival, including...
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Wide Mouth Mason Get Stewed

Photographer: 
Matt Mernagh
Venue: 
Lee's Palace
City: 
Toronto
Date: 
July 17, 2000

Wide Mouth Mason Frontman Records Album On Holiday Train

Prairie rockers Wide Mouth Mason are touring around British Columbia on a vintage train this month, and singer/guitarist Shaun Verreault is recording a solo album during the trip. The band have returned for a second year as performers on CP Rail's annual "Holiday Train," which helps raise money for local food banks in towns and cities...
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AC/DC See Wide Mouth Weenie

"Brian walked in when we were all in our underwear, about to get in the shower. So we're sitting there, talking to Brian Johnson [of AC/DC], nearly naked. He knocked, walked in and it was just as if we were fully clothed. We just hung out and talked. Saf smacked his shoulder with his wet underwear a couple of times, by mistake and then he...
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 "Crap. My underwear are still wet..."

Wide Mouth Mason Spill The Moffatts Rider

Hanging out in a backstage dressing room of a venue usually reserved for ballet and opera productions, Wide Mouth Mason looked comfortably at home. With all three members of the Saskatoon get-up in front of me, I was finally able to present them with the question I have wanted to ask for so long. What the hell went through their minds the second...
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Wide Mouth Mason — Stew

As the third record from the Saskatoon-based trio in as many years, Stew is chock-full of solid songwriting and arranging, making for an absolute listening pleasure. Production assistance is provided by Big Sugar frontman Gordie Johnson with contributions from ex-of-the-Odds-currently-of-Sharkskin Craig Northey, singer and guitarist Shaun...
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Wide Mouth Mason - Stew

Wide Mouth Mason Open Their Mouths About New Album

After holing up in Scarborough studio Phase One for four months recording their latest album, Safwan Javed of Wide Mouth Mason fame slipped away from the action to be interviewed by ChartAttack.com. The album still does not have a tracklisting, a name or a first single, but the band has decided on a few tracks that will definitely appear on the...
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Wide Mouth Mason Speak About New Album (photo by Jason Strong)
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