Welcome to Monday! I'm your Monday Minion Dallas, and I'm happy to be back helping Mr. Curt run the Challenge this year.
I hope you have a look at the link above ^^ as it's a really creative video for "Money City Maniacs", a super-catchy tune by one of Canada's greatest (and perhaps least recognized?) rock bands, Sloan. Hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sloan was formed in 1991. The band has been nominated for nine Juno Awards (Canada's national music awards) and won one, so far. I've never seen Sloan play live but last year I saw Chris Murphy of the band play with Canadian "alternative '90s supergroup" the Trans-Canada Highwaymen (also featuring Moe Berg of Pursuit of Happiness, Craig Northey of the Odds, and Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies). It was an awesome show, the boys were in high spirits and played all the hits of their regular bands plus a ton of Canadian AM radio standards, often switching instruments as they did so!
What does all of this have to do with the Challenge, you ask? Very little! But I wanted to have a punny name for my Monday crew so I came up with one. Deal with it :-)
Anyway, for Challenger posts this week I'm proud to present:
- Some magnificent Austrian Napoleonics from NormS!
- A unit of great looking Age of Sigmar Ogors from ByronM!
- Some spiffy Gauls from RobH!
- Quite large Orcs from DavidB!
- Late addition - very nice Orks and Solar Auxilia from MattK!
Enjoy your Monday!
Dallas
Great story behind the name. I guess I must click the link next...
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing what your maniacs have done this week.
ReplyDeleteTerrific start, Dallas! Funny, we were just listening to Sloan last night and wondered if they had won any awards during their career. Great Canuck band.
ReplyDeleteYeah, our home playlist is increasingly leaning towards ‘Great Canadian Musicians’ … from Glenn Gould playing Bach to Arcade Fire .. eclectic!
DeleteHave a great day Dallas. As a Halifax boy, I’m happy to see you give Sloan a plug.
ReplyDeleteThanks! The story behind the name of the band itself is great too... apparently their buddy's boss called him the "slow one" at work, but the boss's Quebecois accent made it sound like "sloan"... the buddy said they could use the name for their band, as long as buddy got to be on the cover of their first record!
ReplyDeleteYeah, great backstory to their name. I love that half the guys are bespectacled, looking like nerds off the street. Bangin' track, that.
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