Props for Propagandhi

Remember back when it was all about the prizes? And remember one of them was the new SOCAN Echo Prize for Songwriting? Well, that particular crackerjack box popped open today, and the five thousand smackers are going to Propagandhi for their song A Speculative Fiction. While it wouldn’t have been my first choice, it couldn’t happen to a nicer gang of anarcho-syndicalists, so congrats to the punk veterans. They’ll be getting the big prop cheque tomorrow (Wed) afternoon at Fressen Restaurant in Toronto - which is a bit of a surprise, since P-Gandhi (as I’ll call them now that they’re rolling in dough) are so famously sons of Winnipeg. Couldn’t SOCAN get a rep out to the prairies?