Rob and Homegame Radio

Growing up in Windsor Ontario I was always leery of the over powering influences of American culture but at the same time it seemed most Canadian culture stopped in London and didn’t make the extra two hour trip to Windsor. I did my best to embrace all things Canadian and found solace in a Stompin’ Tom cassette tape I kept in my car as I traveled from St John’s Newfoundland to Port Hardy BC. In 1998 I moved to Australia and heard the way through the amazing programming of Triple J radio, a national youth broadcaster. I knew that when I came back to Canada I would do my best to fill in the blanks on the Canadian music scene that commercial media were missing. For the last 5 years I have been hosting a one hour radio show called Home Game on the University of Victoria’s radio station CFUV. I listen to every Canadian CD that comes to the station and play as many as I can while interviewing any of these artist that are brave enough to tour across this fair land. Thankfully the CBC’s Radio 3 is spreading the word about our music scene as well but it’ll never be enough so that’s why I’ve created this web site and the podcast to bring the amazing independent Canadian artists to as many people as possible.