Concert Announcement: ZAKI IBRAHIM with guests THE KEY COMPONENTS
Thursday, March 20Twenty-five years, four continents, and several generations in the making, Zaki Ibrahim's music is captivating and vibrant. It's thick with poetics, and steeped in a delicious mixture of earnest emotion and humor. She was shaped by the diversity of her Apartheid-era hometown and household , where the lessons of Islam fed into discussions of Buddhism, Sufi philosophies courted drums, and Scottish folk songs intertwined with a rich, epic ancestral history.
Concert Announcement: CREATURE with guests KISSING WITH POPROCKS - Thursday, April 3Creature are an energetic power pop band that heats up the stage and makes you shake your ass. Keys, guitar, bass, drums and tug of war guy-girl vocals may hint at B-52's playfulness and the Talking Head's intensity, but this four piece has a truly original sound that will leave you hooked with some very tasty grooves. These four Montrealers have been playing together for 3 years and have managed to stir quite a following in their home town. They released a 4 song demo last year and on March 4 will release of a full length CD.
Concert Announcement: INNER CITY SURFERS - Monday, March 31Back in the fall of 1999 one lost soul, one young punk, and two vagabonds found each other on the road less traveled. Here is where they became the Inner City Surfers. Each with his own unique personality help to give the Inner City Surfers their key ingredient… their diversity!
Concert Announcement: CHRIS KOSTER & THE LONELY - with guests BLAZER + THE REBELLION - Saturday, March 8Chris Koster is a rare talent. A multiple-threat on keyboard, guitar and vocals, Koster continues in the tradition of Prince and Trent Reznor – self-contained, self-produced visionaries who know exactly where they are going and how to get there. His new Album 'Sex, Love & Morality' showcases his progression, that was fueled by his relationship with legendary producer Bob Ezrin (Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd, Kiss, Jane's Addiction). He helped me hone my craft,says Koster, he really pushed me to do something different and challenged me.
Concert Announcement: STEVE HILL - with guests BLUESTONE - Sunday, March 9Devil At My Heels, Steve Hill's fourth album is the heaviest, rawest and most powerful music he's ever released. After ten years as a recording artist and fifteen on the stage, Montreal's true guitar hero is at the top of his game.The album is truly a giant step for the artist. Produced by Steve and Alexis Dufresne,the sound is powerful, the songs are strong and the album is a guitar maniac's dream come true.
Concert Announcement: JASON COLLETT - with guests PETER ELKAS - Saturday, April 19Most singer/songwriters are lonely souls with only a stool, an acoustic guitar and a heart-worn sleeve, but not Jason Collett. Collett's warm, familiar and often fragile vocals tackle stories set in basement apartments and high school dances, about drinking Southern Comfort behind the shopping mall and finding solace in a mix-tape.
Concert Announcement: THE TOM FUN ORCHESTRA - with guests BIG JOHN BATES & THE VOODOO DOLLZ - Thursday, March 6The Tom Fun Orchestra is the world's premier vaudevillian-cluster-rock ensemble featuring an ambitious mix of electric and acoustic instruments and enough skilled musicians on stage to intimidate even the largest crowds. Lead by Ian Macdougall's unique and undeniable songwriting talents, the sound, the songs and the experience have refreshed impressions of what Canada's Maritime provinces have to offer musically.
Concert Announcement: THE BLACK HALOS - with guests THE MIGHTY EAGLE BAND - Monday, March 24And now a few words from BILLY HOPELESS (THE BLACK HALOS): Ever since this beautiful nightmare began back in 1994, The Black Halos has always been an entity on its own comprised of 5 individuals who have united with the soul (sic) purpose of keeping the idiotsavantness of the music we love alive at any cost. From taking on tours that seem impossibly ridiculous to even the most experienced die hard bands to playing some of the most legendary/highbrow theatres and ballrooms as well as some of the darkest shitholes and unknown venues. No crowd has been denied or unmarked by our passion, insanity, and debauchery.
Concert Announcement: THE TOWN PANTS - Thursday, March 13Feverish and stampeding, at home, Vancouver fans selected The Town Pants as one of their favourite National Celtic / Traditional Acts in Vancouver's Georgia Straight entertainment weekly's Annual Best of Vancouver Readers' Poll, where they were shortlisted with such groups as Great Big Sea and Natalie MacMaster.
Concert Announcement: JIMMY GEORGE - ST. PATRICKS DAY SHINDIG - Monday, March 17Yes they're back for the last time, once again! It's that once (or many times!) in a lifetime opportunity to see Jimmy George play all the same songs in the same order as they always do, in the confines of our cosy club.