The Guest List
Thursday February 6th, 2025 with Joe Reilly
Interviews with Evan Crofton, aka Alistair Blu, of Busty and the Bass, and Kellie Loder - both artists are in town this week

The Guest List is sponsored by Spaceman Music, located at 388 Gladstone Avenue, just west of Bank. Visit Spaceman for all of your music making needs and don't forget they have a great repair shop and offer music lessons. Check out Spaceman online at: https://www.spacemanmusic.com/ We open the show in conversation with Evan Crofton, who goes by the name of Alistair Blu when he's performing with his group Busty and the Bass. The Montreal outfit has just released a brand new EP entitled The Mannequin, and it continues the band's trend of mixing elements of funk, soul, r&b, jazz, hip-hop and pop into an infectious, groovy sound. Alistair talks about all of these influences and how the group works with them in the studio when creating new music and on stage when they bring it to life in concert. Expect a bold, brassy and groove-oriented night at the Bronson Centre when the group performs on Saturday night, February 8th. For more information and access to the wide range of music released by Busty and the Bass, use the links below: https://bustyandthebass.com/ https://bustyandthebass.bandcamp.com/music And for tickets to see Busty and the Bass perform at the Bronson Centre on Saturday night, use this link: https://www.ticketweb.ca/event/busty-and-the-bass-zach-bronson-centre-theatre-tickets/13969043?pl=spectrasonic Next we talk to the awesome Newfoundland singer-songwriter, Kellie Loder. They released their fourth album last year and will be playing music from it and all of their releases at the National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage next Wednesday, February 12th. Kellie has created really powerful and beautiful videos to accompany the songs from their latest album. We talk about the video for When We Kiss which is predominantly made from videos sent to Kellie by their fans - it's a lovely video that you can check out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDfrdGlmsYE We also talk about the powerful narrative portrayed in the split screen video for the song Can't Go Back, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1FwPCkLjk0 We talk about the themes that tie the songs on Transitions together and Kellie shares how they used a special vocal take for the song When We Kiss. For more information about Kellie Loder and their music use this link: https://kellieloder.com/ And for tickets to see Kellie Loder at the National Arts Centre on Wednesday, February 12th, use this link: https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/37558 Thanks for listening to the Guest List today. Get out and see some live music this week and support independent music in any way that you can.