"Bow Your Eyes, Close Your Head" podcast

Welcome back my flock,

     Hope you're all doing well. This episodes guest is the frontman from King County's The Ready's,Jarod Semple.  Young Jarod and I met a long time ago when my old band W!NSLOW played shows around King county Ontario (Newmarker,Nobleton,Kleinsburg) with The Ready's. They're good eggs and a wicked band. We have a wicked chat about family,high school,being a pastor's kid,having a good parentalk influence disregarding faith and punk rock. Please everyone,grab you Thousand Foot Krutch CD and your TD Jake's devotion and LET'S GO !!!!!!

Links:

http://thereadys.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/the_readys/

Welcome back my flock. Hope 2022 is treating you kindly and the spirit of DC Talk are blessing your journey. This episode's guests is the bassist for Close Your Eyes & current host of the "Always Sonny Podcast" mr. Sonny Vega. He's a good egg and was stoked to chat with the dude. We chat family,his Mexican heritage,Michigan and Texas punk and hardcore scenes,touring during the Victory Records last hay days and faith. Grab your "Adventures in the Bible" VHS cassettes & you "1st 6 books of the new testament" book you got at an outreach and LET'S GO !

Links:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0JGxGRwFtYkPqiOny0PmVB?si=j77Tfe2OQbm38qfwcZpGXw

https://open.spotify.com/album/09as8XYEwT9HJV7kc6zAmO?si=n1pOLcvLQlm8SMVNZi1zpg

Welcome back my flock !! Sorry for the wait! This episodes guests is my dude Tony Bucci. I booked his band Broken Field Runner @ the Central w/ Shared Arms in 2015 in Toronto. He hit me up wanting to chat about his Catholic upbringing. We chat Catholicism, Italian/Irish catholic families, confession, absolution, faith, punk rock and best friends.Grab your Frank Sinatra "best of" cd and jar of Bolognese sauce and LET'S GO !

https://www.facebook.com/brokenfieldrunner/

https://www.instagram.com/brokenfieldrun/?hl=en

HEY,

   Welcome back my flock.Hope you're well. This episodes guest is none other that comedian Will Kristiansen! We became pals when him and I were in Dan Guiry's "Comedy Jam" show band in 2018 and connected on the fact we went to youth groups and we too scared to touch ourselves.We talk small town Atlantic Canada, Christian camps, family, guilty while having crushes,music and much more.

     Grab your Project 86 cd & church bulletin and LET'S GO !!!!

Welcome back my flock! Sorry to the delay.We got a new one with one of my oldest pals in the MTL punk/hardcore scene Mr. Matt Savage. We talk growing up getting shamed for "secular" music,the Bretheren Faith,West Isle All Ages punk community,having a cool aunt that shows you cool thing and being a social worker in my hometown of Montreal,QC. Grab your "Blessed By A Broken Heart" Cd and devotion journal and LET'S GO !!!

Welcome back my flock.We meet again,thanks for your patience.This week's episode's guest is mr. Brian Woodall of North Carolina's wolves&Wolves&Wolves&Wolves. We met years ago at a Pre Fest show in 2016 in Tallahassee, FL. We chat family, grandma's influence to question the faith, youth group romances, you pastors and good ol' punk rock.

   Grab your Value Pac cd & devtional journal and LET'S GO !!!

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/wolvesx4/?hl=en

https://wolvesx4.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/wolvesx4/

Welcome back my flock !!!

  Here we are again, blessed and refreshed.That should be a tag line for an Evangelical lemon/lime soda.This episodes guest is Commander Matt Rideout, engineer/producer/livestreamer extraordinaire ! We chat family, extensive christian alt music, life, Family, dating, Windsor punk/hardcore scene & the deepest of Christian deep cuts; Delirious.

grab your Blindside cd & Passion of the Christ DVD and LET'S GO !

https://mattrideout.ca/

https://www.streamtuneup.com/

Good morning my flock... welcome back !!! Good to be back at Sunday school with you cats. This episode's guest is the hilarious and prolific Abbas Wahab. Abbas was born and raised Muslim in Africa but raised in lovely London,On. We talk stand up, islam, being a teen in a strict Allah fearing Muslim family, having to make up for everything because of a sibling, learning English and north American culture from the Simpsons,trying to keep the faith while trying to kill at a comedy club and is Genghis Khan 5"8 or 6"1 ?

Grab your Carmen tape and Amy Grant dvd and LET'S GO !!!

links;

https://www.instagram.com/abbaswahab_/?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSPJc5XPaW44Qz1HVQvOj4g

https://www.podchaser.com/creators/abbas-wahab-107aIbjtLR

https://www.thenativesociety.com/questionables/2021/3/14/abbas-wahab-comedian-actor-amp-writer

WELCOME BACK MY FLOCK.... this episodes a great one and dear to my heart too.This episode's guest is commander Christobal Aitkins of MTL'S Gutser and CJLO's "Sewer,Spewer".I met this young gem when he was roughly 16 @ a BMX park called Ugly Ass Bikes in the south west end of the island of Montreal.Those all ages shows were mental and so much fun.It's because of Chris and his pals, who attended Ugly Ass Bikes shows, that W!NSLOW felt like a band,like rock stars.Disregarding how corny this sound,they gave us meaning and self Esteem. We talk youth groups, prayer, south american families and God, MTL punks scene. Grab a cold claw,crank some Gideon while thumbing through you devotion book and LET'S GOOOO !!!

https://www.instagram.com/gutser_tv/

https://www.instagram.com/sewerspewer/

Welcome back my flock... screw it,I'm using it.... this episodes guest is the back beat to Toronto's premiere pop punk unit Junior Battles, commander Joel Dickau. Joel's pop's was a pastor , ooouuhhhhh pastor's kid. We chat youth groups, worship groups, baptist churchs, friendshiops, jazz/rock fusion bands & Hannah Barbara's "Adventures in the Bible".... 

grab your Reliant K cd and Matt Chandler book and LET"S GO !!

https://www.facebook.com/juniorbattles/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6jLpzYRLHyELSCPHm6AJnI?si=kX-k3EtYRYa73tITdltl8A

https://juniorbattles.bandcamp.com/

welcome back my flock !... damn, I did it again called you cats a "flock". UGHHH.... This episode's guest is the O.G hustler Tanner Brooke. She's the tour manager guru with her roots in the prairie hardcore/punk scene to now living in Europe working with tremendous acts like Australia's Parkway Drive. We chat Winnipeg, attending church solo (no family) , dating, friendships, Winnipeg's tight knit christian punk & hardcore scene,"Jesus Edge" and le Chateau...

pick up your Anberlin cd and Magee & Me VHS and LET'S GO !!!!

https://www.instagram.com/tannerbrooke/

Welcome back my flock... I can't believe I said flock.This episodes guest is the great John Michael Bond.JMB is a wicked comic,originally from Tennesse but now calls L.A home via ATL.We chat mega churches, testimonies, conservatism, local all-ages christian venues, family & Tyler Perry & his empire.... HELLLUUURRRR ?!?!?! grab your MewithoutYou CD's and Kirk Cameron T shirt and LET'S GO !!

https://johnmichaelbond.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.instagram.com/johnmichaelsmistakes

This epidoe we got the one & only Matty Cusick of London,On's gravel punk princes YEAH BUD!. We talk being a pastor's kid (think 1st family but you pray way more and feel guilty more frequently), christian punk rock,southern ontario, being a parent and how parents sometimes almost love you to death.... snag your "90lb Wuss" cd and "Left Behind" vhs cassettes and  LET'S GO !!!!

https://www.facebook.com/YeahBuds/

https://getparty.bandcamp.com/album/snacks-yeah-bud-split

https://www.instagram.com/yeah_bud_pop_punk/

Hey,

    What's good?This week's episodes guest is my bud Guled Abdi. He's a local Toronto comic and 1/4 of the new CBC sketch killers Tallboyz II Men. We chat about growing up strict Muslim in both Africa & Toronto.We discuss his prayer hacks and how laughing and roasting people is an African pass time. He's a good egg and real talented ! Saddle up and dive in !!!

Tallboyz II Men:

https://www.cbc.ca/tallboyz/cast/Guled-Abdi

https://twitter.com/tallboyziimen?lang=fr

https://www.facebook.com/TallboyzTO/

   Victor Perez is my guest this time around.Victor is a good bud who I met at the Bovine. He's a devoted regular who loves the local Toronto scene and watering holes.He noticed my Pokinatcha Punx tattoo and literally we became pals immediately.We discuss growing up a protestant in the predominantly Catholic country of Mexico, playing in the worship band, punk rock, family, coming to Toronto, youth groups and Chloe Sevigny. 

   So grab your A Devil Wear Prada CD & Kirk Cameron DVD and let's giv'r !!!

Bow Your Eyes, Close Your Head Podcast featuring Andrew "Goose" Neufeld (Comeback Kid,Sights &Sounds, Figure Four)

    Andrew is a one of the fore fathers of modern Canadian punk and hardcore. Frontmen of one of the most notoriously fast, heavy bands Comeback Kid, Andrew talks about his upbringing in a non-denominational church in Winnipeg,MB, touring both secular and christian circuits, fear (the feeling not the band), SNFU, meeting Mike from MXPX, Mennanites, musical family and Russel Crowe movies where he's a fictional, conservative father sending his kid to conversion camp.

lets close in prayer.... don't forget to "BOW YOUR EYES,CLOSE YOUR HEAD"

Welcome to "Bow Your Eyes, Close Your Head" podcast ! Conversations from one heathen to another. I went to a pentecostal church from birth to 22/23 years old and.... I have a lot on mind.Let's chat. Turn up your "MXPX" cd on your discman, grab you bible and let's get into it !

    First Episode is Tim McCready. Tim's the man. He ran some of the most memorable and infamous house shows in the Toronto music scene and currently leads the best live karaoke band "Good Enough Karaoke". We chat Ontario punk,Walkerville,On, Baptist churches,tooth & Nail Records, Solid State records,Cornerstone festival, HM magazine, conliction, strict upbringings and more.

mixed & produced : Mike Sperry

artwork: Mike Crossley

music: Davey Knight & Gabe Koury

GELK:

http://www.goodenoughlivekaraoke.com/