Recording: The Cereal Killers/Lilly and the Jellybean Machine

Artists: The Cereal Killers + Lilly and the Jellybean Machine

Songs: What's Your Thing?/We Are Girls + [first piece]

Recorded at Array Space (Audiopollination Halloween Special), October 31, 2017.

The Cereal Killers - What's Your Thing? + We Are Girls

Lilly and the Jellybean Machine - [first piece]

Celebrating the season with costumes and a horror flick, Audiopollination brought together three sets of improvised sounds for a night of Halloween fun. A night of costumes felt appropriate as an opportunity to reunite The Cereal Killers, which features improvised punkrock outbursts behind recitations of 90's era toy and cereal commercials from Andy Dolgin (who was rockin' the Ace Ventura look this time 'round). The set also included this pair of classic YTV PSA's from the league of Concerned Children's Advertisers.

The backing band — with Mike Lynn (fuzzy bear/bass) Gord Fynes (Morty/drums) Brian Abbot (cheerleader/guitar) and Kayla Milmine (owl/alto sax) — included new addition Elizabeth Lima (catwoman/clarinet), and once Dolgin had run out of jingles, Lima swapped frontperson spots with him to transform the group into Lilly and the Jellybean Machine, self-proclaimed as "Toronto's primary maybe-wave band", for a second half of freewheeling prowls.

Recording: Professor Andy Dolgin and the Cereal Killers

Artist: Professor Andy Dolgin and the Cereal Killers

Songs: Socker Boppers/cereal montage + Jenga/I'm Just a TV

Recorded at Dundas Video (Track Could Bend #17), August 2, 2016.

Professor Andy Dolgin and the Cereal Killers - Socker Boppers/cereal montage

Professor Andy Dolgin and the Cereal Killers - Jenga/I'm Just a TV

One of the more delightfully zany concepts to land at Track Could Bend, this ad hoc band (with FASTER's Brian Abbot and Kayla Milmine plus Mike Lynn and Gord Fynes) was deployed to exploit one of Andy Dolgin's stranger talents: a perfect recall of the toy commercials, cereal ads and YTV PSA's from his youth. Over a rampaging improvised punkrock soundtrack (which is not particularly well-served by these recordings, I must apologize) Dolgin, cereal box armour and all, bounced through a whole heap of super-short jingle-sized tunes with hyperactive vigour. This was billed as a one-off, but there's no way this isn't happening again. I want it! I want it now! Buy meeee one!

[Track Could Bend will be back at Dundas Video on September 6th, with Isla Craig, Mark Hundevad & Mike Gennaro and Jesse James Laderoute's Catholic Wilt. Meanwhile, Professor Andy Dolgin will be extolling the virtues of his medicinal tonic at a night with the Candy Apple Jazz Band at The Local Pub on August 18th.]