Member Since: 5/7/2007
Band Website: rattlingbooks.com
Band Members: Down to the Dirt is an unabridged audio edition of the book of the same title by Joel Thomas Hynes (aka Joel Hynes).
The audio edition of Down to the Dirt is narrated by
Joel Thomas Hynes, Author and Principal Narrator
(Keith Kavanagh)
Joel Thomas Hynes (aka Joel Hynes) is the author of two novels (Down to the Dirt and Right Away Monday). He co-wrote the acclaimed stageplay The Devil You Don’t Know and his recent play Say Nothing Saw Wood, won the Best Dramatic Script Award at the 2005 NL Arts and Letters. Also an actor, Hynes has performed leading roles in numerous stageplays, films and television productions, receiving the prestigious Golden Sheaf Award for Best Actor at the Yorkton Film Festival.
Joel's latest novel is Right Away Monday (HarperCollins, May 2007).
Sherry White
(Natasha)
Sherry White is an actor, writer, producer and director. A graduate of the Fine Arts program at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, she has performed in a number of theatre companies including the White Rooster Theatre and Rising Tide. Her film, The Bread Maker, which she also wrote, premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. Her screenplay for the as yet unproduced Crackie was given the 2004 Jim Burt Screenwriting Award from the Writer's Guild of Canada.
Most recently Sherry was a regular (along with Joel Thomas Hynes and Jonny Harris) on the CBC TV series Hatching, Matching and Dispatching.
Sherry played the role of Matron Sankey in Mary Walsh's 2006 film Young Triffie's Been Made Away.
Jonny Harris (Andy)
Jonny Harris is a graduate of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College’s School of Fine Arts. He has extensive stage experience in both classical and contemporary theatre, credits including Edmund in King Lear and Hal in Proof. His first one-man-show, Out of the Bog, directed by Andy Jones has led to several solo comedic performances such as CBC Radio’s Madly off in All Directions and The Halifax Comedy Festival. He starred in and was a contributing writer for Mary Walsh’s Hatching Matching and Dispatching, a comedy series for CBC television.
Jonny Harris is a founding member of the St. John’s sketch comedy troupe, ‘The Dance Party of Newfoundland’. Jonny played the role of Billy Head, Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With. He has been a guest writer for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and played the role of Roly Costello in RCA-Theatre’s remount of High Steel.
Influences: Russell Banks, David Adams Richards, Michael Crummey, Irvine Welsh, Augusten Burroughs, Calvert, the Southern Shore of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula - the Irish fucking Loop, books, authors, writers
Sounds Like: Reviews
"Picture a teenaged outcast in Newfoundland and his two closest friends—they all love to talk dirty, each with a somewhat skewed Irish accent. This is why the audio version of Hynes’s first novel (really linked stories) is more than welcome. Hynes, also an actor, narrates in protagonist Keith Kavanagh’s voice, joined by Sherry White and Johnny Harris. If anyone has ever wondered what’s going through the minds of those eternal bad boys and the girls they hook up with, this sensitive portrait is a good place to begin. Hynes’s clipped style, taking stories to a breaking point, then dropping them cold, before too much emotion sets in, works very well."
AudioFile Magazine
"Hynes captures [dialogue] masterfully...Raunchy, humorous and energetic...A gritty, moving portrait of growing up - or trying to, anyway."
Publisher's Weekly
"Joel Hynes is the best young voice in years"
David Adams Richards
"...scary, sexy, and funny, sometimes all three at once. It's a hell of a ride."
Michael Crummey, author of River Thieves
Record Label: Rattling Books
Type of Label: Major