Uncut

The rad lads in Uncut and the awesome gals of Magneta Lane dropped by the CJLO studios the afternoon of Dec. 12, 2004.  Now, bands always come late for sessions, but as a precaution, whoever's responsible for the session still gets to the station a little bit earlier than the agreed upon time to set up, blah blah blah.  Due to work, I was running late, and Mr. Roboto (aka Alex), the CJLO program director, was running late due to transit issues.  Neither of us worried of the band being locked out, 'cuz, well, band's NEVER COME ON TIME.  Luckily,  CJLO  engineer extraordinaire Manic Panic (aka Marko) was there on time...and so was Uncut and Magneta Lane.  Not only that, they were EARLY.  I remember calling from my drive in and telling Robot, who got there before me, that I was running late. He said, "dude, they're here" and I did NOT believe him.

Sooooooo from here on out, Uncut and Magneta Lane (whose session profile can be viewed here) have the honour of being the only bands to ever come on time.  No tardies here, yo.  By the time I got there, Uncut was all set up, Ian was on the floor tuning his guitar, and the gals from Magneta Lane were chilling on the couch in the CJLO DJ booth.

All around awesome dudes, we had an amazing time with Uncut and then had the fine opportunity to watch them (and their flood light glory) that night at Casa del Popolo.  I gotta tell ya, if you think their sound is pretty sweet on record, it's unbelievable live.  I was taking pictures of them in the studio while they were performing, and when they hit the distortion in "Taken in Sleep"...yowza.

During the session, we even got them to succumb to what's now billed as "the controller.controller challenge"© and got them to play an amazing new song called "Hideaway." 

** We also found some videos below for a session the band did a few years later!