Rawk the Puck! West Indie Conference

As promised, here's the other side of your grid as the puck drops on Rawk the Puck! For the Eastern Classic Conference pairings, or if you need a primer on what's going on, go here.

STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR

Jack 'n Meg: Top seed.

WESTERN INDIE RAWK CONFERENCE

1 “Hotel Yorba”, the White Stripes vs. 8 “Slippery People”, Talking Heads

2 “Star Sign”, Teenage Fanclub vs. 7 “Mile High Club”, Adam and the Ants

3 “Streets of Fire”, the New Pornographers vs. 6 “Rubber Duckie”, Bootsy Collins

4 “Tennessee Plates”, John Hiatt vs. 5 “Shark Sandwich”, Spinal Tap

Send along your picks for each matchup in the comments below -- the 1 vs. 8 here in the WRIC is a doozy -- to be eligible to win a prize.

Comments

[spencer]

Slippery People (you're right, because they ARE)
Star Sign (Fanclub brings back too many memories)
Rubber Duckie (Bootsie's involved? Fo sho!)
Tennessee Plates (Tap loses because they're too high to skate)

[Kent MacDonald]

Hotel Yorba vs Slippery People

The favourites in this one were watching, but with one eye on the other side. They might have lost focus looking to round two, but luckily they had 15 people telling them to move. They wondered how long it would take until they were alone. Well it was 1, 2, 3, 4, what about the time? 4 games and the Slippery people were rolling over, flat on their faces. "God help us" they cried, "soon enough they'll leave and we'll be left on our own". Yorba takes the elevator to the next round in 1, 2, 3, 4 games.

Star Sign vs Mile High Club

Some say Star Sign got the number 2 seed because they had a horseshoe on the door, but in a time these things can chance and going into the playoffs they'll find a black cat on the floor instead. We've seen it all before. The never give up, never say die attitude of the Clubbers was more than Star Sign could handle. Sure, it had it's ups and downs, but in 7 games the upset prevailed. We knew all alone that it just wouldn't fail.

Streets of Fire vs Rubber Duckie

Last time around it was "sweet sweet sweet, fire in the street" for the favourites, but the red mile was shut down for them this time, as everyone was forced to come in out of the rain. Sometimes these strategies can work, but this time they chose to lose their skin in the dirt. Rubber Duckie was the one in this one, and it was so much fun to see. Rubber Duckies in 6.

Tennessee Plates vs Shark Sandwich

Injury problems aside, things looked OK for the plates through the first couple of games, but then they crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire, woke up in a hotel and didn't know what to do. The Sharks proceeded to take them to bitch school, ploughing through their beanfield with a wah wah wangdoodle and a predictable bloozoid. Sharks win this on in 7 and a quarter.

[Ken]

Slippery People
Mile High Club
Streets of Fire
Shark Sandwich

[Big Dawg]

Maybe I'm too young, but the White Stripes and the New Pornographers are the only bands i've heard of here. And I dont like the pornographers, so Hotel Yorba and Rubber Duckie are easy choices.

I like eating sammiches, so i'll go with the Sharks on that one, and in honour of my joining the club this year, Mile High it is!

[Carla]

'Maybe I'm too young, but the White Stripes and the New Pornographers are the only bands i've heard of here.'

Er, does your babysitter know you're using the computer, L'il Dawg?

[Sean]

White Stripes vs. Talking Heads

This *is* a doozy, but I've got to go with Talking Heads for pure legacy.

Teenage Fanclub vs. Adam and the Ants

Hmmmm.....

New Pornographers vs. Bootsy Collins

Bootsy in a sweep.

John Hiatt vs. Spinal Tap

This one goes 7. Spinal Tap banks one in off Hiatt's skate to win in OT.