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Music From Five Hole:
Tales of Hockey Erotica
Independent 2008

Order at ZUNIOR

  1. Hockey Anthem
  2. (Thinking ‘Bout Your) Five Hole
  3. Joan
  4. Electric Goalie
  5. The Squid & the Wayne
  6. Five Hole Story
  7. Enough About Men & Women Already
  8. I Fall to Pieces
  9. Bobby Wolf
  10. There Go the Jocks
  11. Electric Goalie Exit
credits

Written and performed by Dave Bidini, Selina Martin, Barry Mirochnick, Ford Pier and Martin Tielli c 2008 with the exception of “There Go The Jocks” (J. Swayzee, with new lyrics by Tielli/Martin).

Recorded, edited & pre-mixed by Martin Tielli at Professor Tiki’s Jungle Room.
Drums recorded by Colin Stewart at The Hive.
Mixed by Annelise Noronha.
Mastered by Byron Wong.
Original artwork by Matt James.
Photo by Denise Clarke.
Design & layout by Chris Peters.

 
Players & Lyrics

Guest players:
Dwayne Gale – mandolin (Track 2)
Michael Phillip Wojewoda – piano & drums (Track 7)
Tim Vesely – bass (Track 7)
Tyler Stewart – hockey rap (Track 7)

You have one. I have one. Tony Esposito has one. So does Barbi Benton. The Queen has one, but probably doesn’t realize that she does.  Shrimp Worters had one, so did George Vezina. And Vladimir Dzurilla had one.  We know this because Darryl Sittler found it in 1976, and thus, exposed it to the world.

The Five Hole – the book, the play, the songs, the tender bits of a goalie and the natural bits of mankind – refer, generally, to the space between one’s legs, and particularly, to the space between a goalie’s pads, where vulnerability meets deception and careers are made and unmade.  This record is the product of a play staged by the One Yellow Rabbit Performance Group in Calgary, Alberta, which was the product of a book written by it’s adapter, Dave “Fooksie” Bidini, published then and now by Brindle and Glass.  These songs were originally performed live in said show, which debuted in January, 2007 before embarking on tour across and up and down the country from whence they were born.  They were created largely in Martin “Morningwood” Tielli’s studio apartment to meet the narrative demands of the play’s text, though the songs were not exclusively narrative, if that makes any sense. 

The play and the songs were a success – Mike “Lump” Vernon laughed quite loudly and repeatedly – and so they were committed to the digital biscuit you now quite wisely possess.  The show originally debuted during the Rheostatics final year of existence, but included only two Rheos – Mr. Tielli and Bidini – as well as Selina “Shots” Martin, Barry “Kurtenbach” Mirochnick and Ford “Hockeyhair” Pier.  If there is any confusion resulting from this, the writers take full responsibility.  The Five Hole has been around forever, but this unit is a new creation.
– Dave Bidini