TOUCHDOWN: BARENAKED WITH BEN & JERRY

A lighter note upon which to roll into the long weekend: kudos to the now four-man incarnation of Barenaked Ladies, for finding something other than the departure of Stephen Page to put in the public window. The group fronted a CN Tower newser this week, to promote the launch of a new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavour concocted in their honour – “If I Had A Million Flavours.” The Ladies are the first Canadian musos to join the ranks of “Cherry (Jerry) Garcia” and many other musical luminaries who have been immortalized by the Vermont-based ice cream kings. It’s a fun little story with some CanCon celebrity factor – but more importantly for the band, it’s a new milestone to help them break with the past and move forward, such that they even made a point of noting that they were stealing some time away from work on a new album to be there, in explaining their tardy arrival at the launch event.