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2010 Winter/Spring — What We Missed Telling You About PLUS a homophonic side project

Posted: June 1st, 2010 | Author: Blackbox Squeezebeard | Filed under: Show announcements and recaps | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

For a season, from mid-December to mid-April, we temporarily lost control of our domain name (in fact, it switched off while I was in the middle of composing a promotional draft here!) and information about the Planks was unavailable from this site. We still played lots of great shows, however, and this is just an attempt to keep the historical record in order. Just because nothing turned up on the website didn’t mean that we weren’t busy little buccaneers!

2009-12-26 – the Maclean’s Boxing Day party in Deep Cove.
2010-01-06 – at Bandidas’ anniversary party.
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2010-01-12 – Blackbox Squeezebeard on Melodies in Mind.
2010-01-14 – at Trees Organic Coffee.
2010-01-15 – featured at Beats on Broadway.
2010-01-15 - B-on-B-Jan-15-2010
2010-01-16 – at One Two One Studios‘ launch.
2010-01-16 - Planks at 121 launch
2010-01-22 – A Night of Pleasing Squeezing with Renee de la Prade and Amber Lee Baker (the Accordion Babes), Gerry O’Brien, and Jack Garton of Maria in the Shower at Cafe Montmartre.
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2010-02-26 – Dollhouse Tea Party.
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2010-02-28 – Another Night of Pleasing Squeezing with Jeff Andrew, Marie-Josee Houle, Jason Webley at the LMG.
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2010-03-28 – with Convertible Kids at the LMG.
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2010-04-08 – with Raghu Lokanathan trio at the LMG.
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2010-04-15 – Can You Hear Me Now? F*Word fundraiser at the Railway Club.
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2010-04-21 – at Ubuntu LoCo at the HD Lab.

We’ve enjoyed a couple of shows since that we’ve mostly been able to keep you abreast about here, and are on the verge of splitting for the summer (one more — set aside noon, June 13th!), but before we go we can tie some Plankian threads together with a Go-Your-Own-Waste presentation of the Music Waste festival featuring frequent CP collaborators Erin Graves and Ehren Salazar with bonafide Plank Eryn Holbrook (aka Daisy Jones-Locher of the santur) and marvelous improv outsider weirdo Aaron Read at the traditional Plank venue of the Little Mountain Gallery (195 E. 26th at Main). This Friday, June 4th! Only $5, and free for festival passholders! 8 pm ’til we’re done! The most homophonic bill of the year: Erin, Ehren, Eryn and Aaron in Err On: the Side of Caution. It’ll be a slice. (Actually, imagine a pizza divided into four slices, all of which are different flavours, and at least one slice of which isn’t even pizza… but maybe apple pie.)

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2010-04-11: Pirate party at the HD Lab with the Planks, Ursula, The Rough Sea and Jeff Andrew!

Posted: April 11th, 2010 | Author: Blackbox Squeezebeard | Filed under: Show announcements and recaps | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

After a long and eventful absence, our website is back just in time for us to tip you off about a show we’re playing tonight! Sometime soon we’ll do a bit of looking back to make you netizens want to eat your hat in regret of what you’ve missed over the past few months, but in the meantime, there’s no better time to jump right back in — we’ve got plenty of shows in April and May.

We’re the home team for tonight’s show, with Jeff Andrew, Ursula and (part of) the Rough Sea all having been on the road for some time weaving and wending as the trade winds blew them. These strange currents deliver us all up (after many changes of plans over the past few months) at the HD Lab tonight, Sunday, April 11th, where the old Memelab formerly was: 1814 Pandora Street, upstairs, right by Free Geek. (Take a left at Chicken Death!) We’ll be headlining (last), but things are expected to generally get underway around 8 pm.

And now, a poster!

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