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2008-08-19: Planks at the Railway Club!

Posted: August 18th, 2008 | Author: Blackbox Squeezebeard | Filed under: Show announcements and recaps | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment »

All aboard!  It’s been a while since we played at this stately Vancouver venue (not since a strange set of Christmas tunes December 10th, 2006)… and it seems the recollection of our last visit has worn off, since we’ve been invited back by Jeff Younger to play a closing set (starting ~11:30 pm) following performances by Hilary Grist and a scaled-down version of his psychedelic country outfit the Family Stump.  Simply everyone who isn’t at Radiohead will be there (local music historians note: Radiohead themselves played the Railway in 1995!)

(Poster ripped shamelesly from Rodney Matthews’ 1985 poster “Heavy Metal Hero” beacuse, c’mon, if you’re going to be part of a railway club, why not go for the gusto?)

Planks and Stump at Railway, 2008

Wyoming Johnny’s Seattle pal KT took a photo of us and some YouTube footage!

Planks galumphing with lopsided percussion


One Comment on “2008-08-19: Planks at the Railway Club!”

  1. 1 2009-06-13: Planks play another wedding and the Railway again! | The Creaking Planks said at 5:41 pm on June 11th, 2009:

    [...] the lineup: in addition to having the jug band of the damned back for the opening slot at 10:30 pm, you get a wild and wacky set of unshorn spoken word from RC [...]


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