In addition, he has published several books about music, travel and sports, and has written feature journalism pieces and columns for numerous Canadian magazines and newspapers.

When Crosby left the band after 1981, they enlisted a horn section ("Trans Canada Soul Patrol"), released a few independent cassettes, and in 1985, began playing with guitarist / singer / songwriter Martin Tielli.

Their biggest chart hit was 1994's "Claire," which they recorded as part of the soundtrack to the film Whale Music, and two years later, the band opened a cross-Canada tour for The Tragically Hip, which became the basis for Bidini's book On a Cold Road.

They backed up musicians ranging from Sarah Harmer to John K. Samson to Bryan Trottier to Carmen Townshend performing original songs about hockey players and the games cultures.

He started contributing for The Sunshine News, a national highschool newspaper, and later, Toronto alternative rock magazine Shades, for whom he interviewed Harlequin, Devo, The Dickies, R.E.M., Katrina and the Waves, The B-52s, Ramones and other artists.

Bidini was a columnist for the Toronto Star between 1991 and 1993; his stories were written on a portable typewriter from the road and submitted via gas station faxes, and his 1996 tour diary for the same paper became the essence of his first book.

After the book's success, Bidini later became a board member for Street Soccer Canada, a non-profit body that sends teams annually to the tournament.

[6] Contributors to the paper have included David Seymour, Heidi Sopinka, Katrina Onstad, Amanda Leduc, Waubgeshig Rice, Dani Couture, Michee Mee, Michael Winter, Claudia Dey, Michael Barclay, Phoebe Wang, Paul Vermeersch, Niko Stratis, Micah Toub, Glyn Bowerman, Shari Kasman, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Jon Lorinc, and Ken Babstock.

[7] Bidini has written two plays, Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica, which was toured nationally in 2009 by One Yellow Rabbit and later adapted into a short animated film by Cam Christiansen, and The Night of the Dogs, which has been staged, in sections, by the sketch comedy group, The Imponderables.

In 2010, his story "Travels in Narnia", published in Maisonneuve, placed first, and his article on Clara Hughes in the Calgary Herald's Swerve Magazine won an honourable mention.