Posted: October 25th, 2011 | Author: Blackbox Squeezebeard | Filed under: Show announcements and recaps | Tags: fundraiser, Hallowe'en, Heritage Hall, the Larks | No Comments »
The Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice (a mouthful, but you try saying “OCSEJ” — actually, usually we call it just “the O.C.”) is an eminently worthwhile local umbrella organization perhaps better known for its projects such as Food Security FACTS, Bitter Melons, People’s Health Radio and the Vancouver chapter of the Bus Riders’ Union. They aren’t all for-profit ventures, and neither are we all of the time, so we’re lending our strange musical taste to help fortify a fundraiser dinner they’re throwing at the Heritage Hall Sunday, October 30th. We’ll be sharing the stage with the female chorus The Larks, and everyone will be enjoying a North African dinner. Doors at 6, dinner at 7, music at 8:30. Individual tickets are $20 and costumes are encouraged! Further details over here on their site.
Posted: April 7th, 2011 | Author: Blackbox Squeezebeard | Filed under: Show announcements and recaps | Tags: Biltmore Cabaret, Darla DeVine, fundraiser, Lacy L'Amour, Lola Frost, The Vaudevillians, Vancouver Police Museum | No Comments »
The jug band of the damned trades in our washtub bass for washtub gin (hm… tastes a bit… bassy!) at this speakeasy-themed benefit for the Vancouver Police Museum, “Vancouver’s most arresting experience” (har har), celebrating their 25th anniversary. The museum itself is a very interesting piece of work, immortalizing our regional law enforcement AND lawlessness with all sorts of worrying evidence from local criminal acts throughout Vancouver’s history. These folks also host the exciting “Sins of the City” walking tour, but I digress…
Friday night from 7 pm on, we’ll be partying it up like it’s 1939 at the Biltmore Cabaret (395 Kingsway) with the Vaudevillains squeezing the last drop of humour out of period material with their last gasps, and the easy-to-speak-about burlesque authorities Lola Frost, Darla DeVine and Lacey L’Amour.
Plus prizes galore from numerous generous sponsors! Tickets only available in advance! $40! More information at http://www.bootleggersball.ca/
It’s gratifying to see how many folks over at Miss604, media sponsor of the show, agree that we’re an excellent fit for its format. Wow, gosh! These people know about us! (Maybe they remember the coverage of our One Cool Word performance there?) In truth, we are an excellent fit for every format — and any crying child who tells you otherwise is a dirty liar!
Posted: April 1st, 2011 | Author: Blackbox Squeezebeard | Filed under: Show announcements and recaps | Tags: Al Mader, Barbara Adler, C. R. Avery, Dr. Steelhand, fundraiser, High Society, launch, Lucia Misch, Vancouver Poetry Festival, Venus, WISE Hall | No Comments »
You probably missed us March 12 playing an intimate acoustic living room set to celebrate a new line of Venus’ vintage jewellery. That was too bad, but her works live on and you can find them online! Performances are ephemeral however, none more than poetry performances — even the loudest among them often fly under the radar just outside the front door, while a jerk with a car stereo can be belt blocks away. Musicians, though, we straddle the line between poet and jerk, and tomorrow night we will be making a spirited ruckus on behalf of the quiet poets of page and slam, making our sound and fury to benefit the upcoming 1st annual Vancouver International Poetry Festival.
Joining us will be such mouthy titans as Al Mader, the minimalist jug band, as well as Barbara Adler of Fang and elder statesman of the harmonica beatbox C. R. Avery. Also on the bill are Lucia Misch, our friends in High Society, and even a very literary turn by our own Travis the Magician. (A wizard of words, perhaps?)
Admission runs on a sliding scale from $10-15.
Our standard pre-set warm-up.
Posted: November 19th, 2010 | Author: Blackbox Squeezebeard | Filed under: Show announcements and recaps | Tags: Dandi Wind, fundraiser, Little Mountain Gallery, Pineapple, Resorts, Rickshaw Theatre, the SSRIs, Zachary Gray | 1 Comment »
It’s time to throw our weight behind a cause that’s directly benefited us, the little Little Mountain Gallery where we’ve brought so many good times to so many. When the house falls, you can no longer call yourself a house band!
Denied its bread-and-butter, indie live music performance, by ossified regulations from No Fun City’s Big Book of No Fun, the LMG is compelled to mount another fundraiser, charitably hosted by David Duprey at the Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings.)
Acts on the bill will include Zachary Gray (of the Zolas), Pineapple, Resorts, Dandi Wind and the SSRIs… along with the jug band of the damned, of course!
“THIS NIGHT WILL BE LIKE WASHING DOWN CAKE WITH MILK SHAKE…”
Your all-ages admission is a suggested $10 – $20 sliding scale fee but they want everyone to know that no one will be turned away!
