May music news and gig announcements
There is a new garage rock outfit The Bad Beats in town with Adam Payne (x of the Hathaways), Cam Alexander on vocals, Jon Card on drums, Randy Rudland on bass and Sylvia Lim playing keys. Check out “It Breaks Me Down” as fans of rock’n roll may dig this.
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| Siobhan Duvall vocalist with Parallel Lines play Funkys |
GIG LISTINGS:
- Backwards Riding / Bumpin Tacos (ON) / Monkeys In Drag / Repossessors @ Pat’s Pub
- Tributes / Cash / Blondie / Sabbath / Bad Religion @ Punky Thrasherbalts
- Smash Alley / Sexy Decoy / Wett Stilettos / The Injectors @ The Railway Club
SATURDAY MAY 3
- The Reverberators / The Stag Reels / The Furniture @ Wise Hall.
- SBC Fundraiser: Blacked Out / Selfist / Social Outcast / Lytem Up! @ Punky Thrasherbalts
TUESDAY MAY 6
- The Shrine (Venice, CA) / Bison / Three Wolf Moon @ Electric Owl
FRIDAY MAY 9
- Royal Red Brigade (Regina) / Spree Killers / Fierce Creep / Hot Damn @ Pat’s Pub
- Zero Boys / The Jolts / The Excessives / Snob @ Punky Thrasherbalts
SAT MAY 10
- Fundraiser Show for DTES Womens' Program / Forest and the Femme @ Astoria Pub
- The Family Values @ LanaLou’s
- Also a very special evening with Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs and guest Jody Glenham at Electric Owl, early show
- Neuterhead Fundraiser at Rickshaw: Ace of Spays is proud to present another night of rock n roll and metal cover bands, assembled by some of Vancouver's finest! All profits from this show go to assisting responsible animal rescue groups with the costs of spaying and neutering. PLUS a super sweet raffle, with prizes donated by many fine local services, proprietors and talents. Bands Featured are: Xanadudes- Rush by members of 3 Inches of Blood, All State Champion -- Thin Gordie- Thin Lizzie by members of Anciients, Erosion, Cooked and Eaten, Rotting Hills. -- Bloody O Betty: Plasmatics by Bloody Betty, with members of 3 Inches of Blood, The Devil is Real -- Troops of Doom: Sepultura by members of Gross Misconduct, Fallen Decade, Expain, 88 Mile Trip
SUNDAY MAY 11
- Tyvek / Dreamsalon / B-Lines @ Media Club
WED MAY 14
- Loop / The Godspot @ The Biltmore Cabaret
THURSDAY MAY 15
BEWARE PUNY HUMANS ... The Mants are coming! But that’s not all, those hard rockin, sweat flingin, beer drinkin, dance inducin’, head banging rock’n roll juggernauts, KOMODO WAGON, are back at it again and ready to rage and joining the lads are our good buds, Shockload, and everyone’s favorite punk country rockers, the Wasted strays!!!
- The Mants (Victoria) / Komodo Wagon / Wasted Strays / Shockload @ Railway Club
SATURDAY MAY 17
- 8 Bands 2 Stages (War Baby / The Wandering Halls / Woolworm / Zen Mystery Fogg & More @ The Railway Club
MONDAY MAY 19
- Black Pussy, Gypsyhawk / Black Wizard / La Chinga @ Rickshaw Theatre
FRIDAY MAY 23
- Pink Mountaintops / Three Wolf Moon @ the Fox Cabaret
- Fuel Injected 45 / Spree Killers / Glorywhore / Shit Talkers @ FUNKYS
SATURDAY MAY 24
- Full Leather Jacket / Psychonauts / Slip~Ons @ LanaLou’s
- Dishrags Three (1978-79) Lp Release Party @ The Railway Club
- Car 87 / Witch Of The Waste / AK47 / As The King / Legion Of Goons @ Astoria Pub
THURSDAY MAY 29
- FREE SHOW! Sex With Strangers with ACTORS / War Baby / Combine the Victorious @ the Fox
FRIDAY MAY 30
- Koffin Kats @ Punky Thrasherbalts- Korean Gut (LIVE for one night only) with Shawn Mrazek Lives! & Flying Heads! @ The Cobalt- BESTiE “No Bad Days” Album Release Party Early Show @ Fortune Sound Club SATURDAY MAY 31- Aging Youth Gang / The Gagged / RD Cane / Obscene Being @ Railway Club- The Invisible Orange Metal Cruise !!!
MAY 31 - M.v. Abitibi With Nylithia / Over The Coals / Expain
- Rene Milord and Tanya Van
