[ATTENDED: April 22, 2025] Menno Versteeg
Menno Versteeg is a Canadian musician who fronted the awesomely-named (but I’ve never heard or heard of) Hollerado. I wasn’t aware of him until this show, and I’m not sure how “big” he is in Canada.
Menno was very funny–a lighthearted storyteller (even if the stories were kind of dark). Sadly, we walked in during the first song (WCL can be a real pain to get to), but we didn’t miss much.
It was him and his acoustic guitar playing songs from Why We Run, his debut solo album–although he has released music under the name Mav Carlo as well.
His songs were about a rough life as a youth in Canada
We would to drink enough whatever there was
To kill a clydesdale every night
But we’d do enough drugs and punching,
To bring that same horse back to life [from Videostore]
There was a country vibe, but like most of Canadian country music, there wasn’t that awful twang in the vocals.
I particularly enjoyed the two dog songs. The 4o some second I Got a Dog which is (entirely):
My mother is dyslexic
Sometimes her letters switch around
She failed grade 10 like a good artist does
And passed those ğood ġenes down
She faints plowers, like she saints pun-sets
Haints her Peart when She bolds a hush
And she assured me I would rind my dog
When I wasn’t in a fush
And then Bad Dog was a funny song story about a real bad dog–but Menno loves him still. (more…)
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