Coming off a busy long weekend you’d think there would be a lull but there’s plenty of entertainment in the picks of the week; Brits: Tonight, Liverpool indie act The Wombats play The Imperial on Main Street. Rock: Latin, Rockabilly, Country all come together when The Mavericks take the stage at Commodore Ballroom tonight EDM:…
Category: Music
The Main Event Tour
This summer, arenas all around North America will be filled with nostalgic revellers as NKOTB are joined by TLC and Nelly on The Main Event tour. On their recent stop in Vancouver, near the start of the tour, fans were treated to nearly 4 hours of entertainment, in the round, at Rogers Arena. With the…
Pacific Northwest Festivals 2015
Sasquatch Music Festival is upon us in a few weeks, bringing a plethora of artists to the Pacific Northwest and launching the start of the Festival Season in our neck of the woods. Here’s a few of the multi-artist festivals in Oregon, Washington, Alberta and BC. (Note, not all the festivals have their artist line-up…
Picks of the Week – May 6, 2015
Here we are, the start of May! Summer is just around the corner and signs of the season are popping up all over, take a look at what’s happening in the picks of the week; Docs: The 2015 DOXA Documentary Film Festival wraps up this Sunday closing out 11 days of documentary films with the Closing Night…
Clean Bandit wrap West Coast tour
UK electronic group, Clean Bandit wrapped up their 6 week tour of Western North America last week. Their penultimate show brought them to the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver for an hour long energy-filled show. The quartet of Grace Chatto, Jack Patterson, Luke Patterson, and Neil Amin-Smith were lead by tour vocalist Elizabeth Troy who belted through…
Picks of the Week – April 29, 2015
Closing out the month, we’ll soon see if our April Showers do indeed bring May Flowers. In the meantime, here’s my picks of the week; Laughs: Comedy couple Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally bring their Summer of 69: No apostrophe tour to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre tonight. Docs: The 2015 DOXA Documentary Film Festival gets underway…
Kaiser Chiefs Touring North America
Leeds based Kaiser Chiefs kicked off their 2015 North American tour with a pair of BC shows last week. Originally slated for September of last year, the reschedule tour started in Victoria, the tour moved to Vancouver for a gig at the Commodore Ballroom before an enthusiastic crowd of ex-pats and local fans. Supporting their…