My friends Marta and Shannon will be participating in this year’s Ride to Conquer Cancer where they, along with many others, will cycle from Vancouver to Seattle in order to raise money for cancer research. They still need some support, so this upcoming Wednesday, June 2nd at 8 pm, they’re holding a benefit concert at The Bourbon featuring local artists Dan Hudson (of Waiting for Sunday) and Nadia Von Hahn.
Tickets are $10 and available at the door. It’s for a good cause, guys!
A second show’s been added for The National, happening Thursday September 9th. I didn’t realize that the first show even sold out, but considering how awesome The National’s new album, High Violet, is – I’m not entirely surprised. Now you have no excuse not to go!
Presales are happening right now.
Live Nation password is: highviolet Georgia Straight presale is tomorrow, password is: Violet
The always entertaining Flaming Lips are coming back to the Malkin Bowl on September 26th!
Despite the freezing-cold, their last show was absolutely brilliant. I knew I was in for a treat when frontman Wayne Coyne leapt off the stage in a giant human-sized hamster ball, rolling atop the crowd at the beginning of the show. Other spectacles of the night included dancing aliens, Santa Clauses, sound guys in superhero costumes, lots of confetti and giant balloons floating carelessly amongst the crowd. Oh, and the video camera attached to Wayne’s microphone was pretty trippy too. (At Sasquatch the following year they invited a bunch of girls on to the stage to take their tops off. I can’t believe I missed that…)
Anyways, I’m sure the show this year will be just as good. “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” is bar-none one of my favourite albums of all time.
Tickets go on sale Friday (May 28th), with a presale happening this Thursday. Will update with more info later, so stay tuned.
UPDATE Presale happens tomorrow (May 27th) from 10 am-10 pm
Georgia Straight password is: lips Live Nation password is: flaming
New York indie rockers, Vampire Weekend, are playing the Malkin Bowl August 28th with Beach House and Dum Dum Girls. Should be good times (sadly I’ll be out of town and missing it). My guess is that this show will sell out, so get your tickets early!
Presales happen… Wednesday 10 am – Thursday 7 pm – Live Nation password: keyboard; Twitter password: horchata Thursday 10 am – 10 pm – Georgia Straight password: Contra
Get tickets here via Ticketmaster. General public sale happens this Friday at 10 am.
Guess what, kids? The Canadian super-collective, Broken Social Scene is coming to town October 13th to the Commodore Ballroom to support their new album “Forgiveness Rock Record”! (For all you kids in Victoria, they play Legends the night before)
Over the years, BSS included members of Stars, Metric, The Sea & Cake, Jason Collett and Leslie Feist. According to Wikipedia, the touring lineup this year will feature the core seven members: Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearin, Sam Goldberg, and Lisa Lobsinger.
No word yet on when tickets go on sale, but I can imagine soon (maybe this Friday?).
I will update when they do, and if/when there’s a presale.
Tickets went on sale yesterday! Totally dropped the ball on this one… It slipped right past me.
Get them here via Ticketmaster
Seems like there are plenty left.
Did you, or someone you love, attempt to get into the free Deadmau5 show back during the Olympics, but found yourself dancing outside LiveCity instead ? (I certainly didn’t, but mostly because I was in another country).
Well, if you missed it last time, he’s coming back July 10th to the Pacific Coliseum!
Albeit… this time it’s not free, and actually quite expensive for what it is ($59-$109 depending on which section you’re in).
Honestly, I was looking this info up for a friend and by posting this I’ll never live it down, but whatever! I can guarantee it’s probably everyone’s dirty little secret that they know the full lyrics to at least one of the Backstreet Boys songs…
So for those of you who are interested, August 6, 2010 they are in town.
Ticket Master Presale Password:
KEYBOARD – Live Nations
INGOLD
INPLATINUM
A bit late on this one (sorry about that) but the Akron, Ohio-based duo The Black Keys are coming to the Orpheum October 3rd to promote their upcoming album “Brothers”. Be sure to check out their new video for the single “Next Girl” which features dinosaurs and bikini girls! Two things that go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly.
Public sale happens this Friday at 10 am.
Presale happens tomorrow from 10 am to 10 pm.
Live Nation password is: attack
Georgia Straight password is: tighten
