Let’s show the band we can behave at a cabaret style event in PG this time around please!

Last time Cord Lund was here we behaved terribly – fights, an idiot was hitting his date right in front of the stage – Corb kept calling for security to stop it, and another idiot got on stage and knocked his guitars over.

Here’s to enjoying the show without all the crap.

I had the chance to meet Corb personally sometime much later after that show. He described Prince George as one of the roughest, angriest towns he had been to. Not only did all the incidents above occur, but his band was also pelted by flying debris, and the local RCMP got very threatening/aggressive with him when he attempted to ‘jay walk’ across ospika prior to the show.

Seems to me the city should not have allowed booze at CN Center. I remember years back that we voted against it, so they put a pub across Ospika. Slowly they introduced new regulations allowing alcohol. No worry about the young people attending events there. We must have booze because people in PG cannot seem to function without it.

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Country’s Corb Lund Returns to CN Centre
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:17 PM

Prince George, B.C.- Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans will be  kickin’ up a party at the CN Centre on May 9th.
 
The event is being called the Pilsner Bush Bash, and will feature Lund performing songs from his latest album “Cabin Fever”.
 
A Juno award winner, and named by the Canadian Country Music Association as “Roots Artist of the Year”,  for seven straight years ( 2004 – 2010),   Alberta born Lund   is set to return to the CN Centre.
 
Tickets go on sale Friday, March 1st at 12. noon.

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Posted by: hartbooks on February 26 2013 1:39 PM
Let’s show the band we can behave at a cabaret style event in PG this time around please!

Last time Cord Lund was here we behaved terribly – fights, an idiot was hitting his date right in front of the stage – Corb kept calling for security to stop it, and another idiot got on stage and knocked his guitars over.

Here’s to enjoying the show without all the crap.
Posted by: curmudgeonscurse on February 26 2013 2:57 PM
I had the chance to meet Corb personally sometime much later after that show. He described Prince George as one of the roughest, angriest towns he had been to. Not only did all the incidents above occur, but his band was also pelted by flying debris, and the local RCMP got very threatening/aggressive with him when he attempted to ‘jay walk’ across ospika prior to the show.

What he said is all true.

I’m sure jay walking is against the law where he is from too. No sympathy for that.

To any and all who might be interested. Jay Walking is not against the law, in Prince George, or other communities in BC with the exception of Vancouver, BC.

Vancouver has their own Charter, and their own Police force, and basically do whatever they chose.

I suspect that even some police officers do not know that Jay Walking is legal.

If anyone in this City has ever been issued a ticket for jay walking I certainly would like to here about it.

Waiting………………..

“I suspect that even some police officers do not know that Jay Walking is legal.”

That is not entirely true. There is this little provision in the MVA that one can be ticketed for: “When a pedestrian is crossing a highway at a point not in a crosswalk, the pedestrian must yield the right of way to a vehicle.”

I am so excited to see Corb return to PG. I am a huge fan and have travelled to Alberta numerous times to see him in concert.

His latest album, Cabin Fever, is phenomenal and I highly recommend it – both versions!!

At the last show I saw in Edmonton, he did a rendition of ‘O Canada’ in the style of Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues – Amazing! @2:20 at the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgkznokFL9g&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgkznokFL9g&feature=share

Jaywalking is not illegal in PG.
It is in Nanaimo though.
I remember police at the high school ticketing kids for walking against the light.

Govsux. Walking against a light is somewhat different than Jay Walking.

Cities can bring in bylaws and issue fines for Jaywalking however as far as I know Vancouver is the only City that does so.

They make a lot of money by issuing tickets, and as usual the offence and ticket rarely has anything to do with safety, rather, it is a way to generate money.

The Police used to hide in the alleys and then jump out and write you a ticket.

Jaywalking would be like crossing the street from the bowling alley to the Native Friendship Centre, on Third Ave.