Ways to Support Us 2014 Commemorative Magazine Our Partners Our Donors Matthew Good and Jay Baruchel Live - Not So Private Banter with special guest Scott Helman Buy Tickets Matthew Good and Jay Baruchel Live - Not So Private Banter with special guest Scott Helman Watch, listen and even join in as rocker Matthew Good and actor-comedian Jay Baruchel jam on anything and everything that comes to mind. No taboo topics, no rules, no script just conversation, music and a little mayhem. There’s only one plan: expose each other’s dark humour, wit and unparalleled world knowledge. Backed by Goods acoustic talents, it will be a night to remember. MATTHEW GOOD During his 20-year career, multi-platinum Canadian musician Matthew Good has released ten studio albums, three EP’s, a live album, and two compilations. Between 1999 and 2011 all of Good’s studio releases debuted inside of the top 5, two of them debuting at number 1, with several achieving multi-platinum status and all but two achieving gold status thus far. Since 1997, he has been nominated for twenty JUNO Awards, winning four. Beyond music, Good is a staunch mental health advocate that is publicly open about his own struggles with Bipolarity. He is an advocate of the Rideau Institute’s Ceasefire initiative, has contributed to The Guardian, and is known for penning the now popularized phrase “first world problems”, taken from the lyrics of Omissions Of The Omen, the hidden track on the Matthew Good Band’s debut release Last Of The Ghetto Astronauts. JAY BARUCHEL Jay Baruchel continues to cement his leading man status with many exciting projects on the horizon. Baruchel will next star in the upcoming FXX comedy series Man Seeking Woman based on Simon Rich’s book The Last Girlfriend on Earth and executive produced by Lorne Michaels. Baruchel can also be heard reprising the voice of ‘Hiccup’ in DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon 2, the sequel to the 2010 Oscar-nominated animated film which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Additionally, he will be seen in the Untitled Cameron Crowe Project opposite Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams and Bill Murray, which will release on Christmas Day, and he has recently signed on to star in and executive produce the film adaptation of Stephen Kings short story The Ten O’Clock People. Earlier this year, Baruchel was seen in Sony’s Robocop opposite of Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton, and opposite Kurt Russell and Matt Dillon in the heist film The Art of the Steal, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at this year’s Canadian Screen Awards. He recently starred opposite Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Jonah Hill in Sony’s hit comedy This is the End, a feature-length film based on a short film that he completed with Rogen, “Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse.” Baruchel also was seen in the hockey comedy Goon which he co-wrote with Evan Goldberg, produced and starred in opposite Sean William Scott and Liev Schrieber. The film premiered to rave reviews at the Toronto Film Festival, and Baruchel was nominated for two 2013 Canadian Screen Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category and for Adapted Screenplay. Also in development for Baruchel are a number of writing projects. He is currently adapting the book Baseballismo written by Dave Bidini into a screenplay and is also adapting the graphic novel Random Acts of Violence for Kickstart Entertainment. In addition, he is also working on a sequel to Goon. Roles in the Academy Award-winning movie Million Dollar Baby opposite Clint Eastwood, Hillary Swank and Morgan Freeman and the blockbuster hit Tropic Thunder opposite Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., garnered Baruchel much praise for his versatility. He has also been lauded for his starring role in Jacob Tierney’s comedy The Trotsky which premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival to rave reviews. Baruchel received a Genie Award Lead Actor nomination for his performance in this film. Baruchel had a lead role in Bruckheimer Films/Disney feature The Sorcerer’s Apprentice directed by Jon Turtletaub, in which he starred as the “Apprentice” opposite Nicolas Cage. He also won a 2011 Annie Award for his voice work in the DreamWorks animated feature, How to Train Your Dragon. Baruchel has a long list of additional feature credits including David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis opposite Robert Pattinson, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, romantic comedy She’s Out of My League, Good Neighbors, which premiered at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival, Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, Knocked Up, Just Buried, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival, Real Time, and in the memorable role of ‘Vic Munoz,’ the obsessed Led Zeppelin fan in Almost Famous. Baruchel began acting at age 12 when he landed a job on the Nickelodeon hit television series Are You Afraid of the Dark?, transforming what was to be a one-time guest appearance into a recurring role. The role was a springboard for his career, leading to his first Canadian series, My Hometown. He then made his debut to American audiences as the star of the critically acclaimed Judd Apatow television series, Undeclared on Fox. Baruchel currently resides in Montreal. SCOTT HELMAN “I want to make music that’s good and makes people think and want to dance and feel things and give them value. I want people to know that they are important and that they have valuable and important things to say. Everybody is free to express themselves.” – Scott Helman It sometimes feels that in the cut and paste pop world we live in, the art of the song is lost in a swirl of synthesizers and auto-tuned production tricks. But, thankfully, there are a few young artists out there whose goal it is to come to the table with something to say and create a unique voice for themselves. Rather than allowing radio formats and flavour-of-the-month styles dictate who Scott Helman is, it is his deft pen and soulful voice that defines his sound. Born and raised in Toronto, Scott’s parents filled the house with music but it was a steady diet of 80’s pop that didn’t really connect with him. It wasn’t until one rainy day at a friend’s cottage that Scott had the musical epiphany that set him on his way. “I’d heard a lot of music already, but I’d never listened to The Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd,” says Scott reminiscing about that seminal moment. “We stole a couple cigarettes from his mom and found the album in his dad’s vinyl collection. I remember just staring at the cover. From the moment it started we were speechless. I was amazed at how moved I was by the lyrics. I remember thinking, ‘I want to spend the rest of my life trying to make something half as good as this.’ It was kind of a crazy moment.” From that moment on Scott became a sponge going back and listening to everything that had only been referenced before – the Beatles, Dylan, Young and on and on. He learned how to play guitar and he started writing songs, trying to find his own voice. For his birthday, a friend bought him some time in a studio to record a couple of demos. The studio owner loved what he heard and offered Scott free time to record some more songs. Those demos led Scott to a performance in the offices at Warner Music Canada where, sitting on a stool with his guitar in his lap, he filled the room with a voice that stunned all that were there. Encouraged by Ron Lopata, Warner’s VP of A&R, Scott went on a writing spree that produced a plethora of songs that began to define a sound that he could call his own. “When I would say ‘I don’t know, I’m not comfortable or it’s not me,’” says Scott, “Ron would say just trust me and do it and you can tell me if you don’t like it after. At first I would go home and think, I don’t know about this and then after a week, I’d go ‘this song rocks.’” “I think the reason some people can find pop music boring is that they think that one song serves one purpose. Sometimes you want to kick people in the ass a little bit. A song like “Cry Cry Cry” is about a relationship but not everything is good and the bridge reflects the other side so there had to be distortion on that guitar. I think it’s important to keep people interested and to keep the world of music an interesting thing.” - See more at: canadaswalkoffame/festival/event/matthew-good-and-jay-baruchel-live#sthash.ucbDw95L.dpuf
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