The Feral House Podcast with Cold Glitter author, Robert Dayton

Cold Glitter is available worldwide at fine booksellers and internet retailers. And directly from Feral House.

 

Cold Glitter is a province-by-province walking tour of the soft sequined underbelly I never knew I had, as a so-called Canadian. It is enlightening and hilarious and in the end inspiring. Cold Glitter creates a home for the perverse and the ecstatic, in a nation vehemently down on both.” Dan Bejar, musician (Destroyer, and member of The New Pornographers).

 Robert Dayton taps his Canadian roots to reveal mind-blowing stories of musicians who performed and recorded equally mind-blowing music full of PIZZAZZAMATAZZ.

It's a universal story of determined musicians striving to get their songs heard and maybe get a little famous…Canada famous. Dayton has spent years researching and interviewing these ground-breaking musicians trapped by geography, colonial mindsets, and the difficulties of penetrating the cultural behemoth that is the United States. 

Readers everywhere will find solidarity with the all-too-familiar story of artists daring to be different. The struggle to be fabulous are requires makeup, elaborate costumes, and endless miles through the frozen tundra. Cold Glitter is filled with anecdotes of fun and mayhem.

Meet familiar names like magician Doug Henning, Vancouver band Sweeney Todd and their lead singer Nick Gilder, and his replacement, Bryan Adams, to underground heroes like The Dishes, No Fun, and Thor and the numerous musicians who put away their mascara and left their glamorous wild days behind.

Originally from Fort St. John, British Columbia, Robert Dayton is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, performer, and comedian who has been in such musical acts as Canned Hamm and July Fourth Toilet. His previous book was The Empty Bed.

“The always-entertaining Robert Dayton details a mysterious, undocumented scene that was hiding in plain sight up North. Written with the enthusiasm of a renegade entomologist who just uncovered a rare, precious, and peculiar bee, the book is loaded with colorful characters and alternate-universe tales.” Gregg Turkington, actor, writer, and comedian best known for his character, Neil Hamburger.