Bands!Bands!Bands! Volume XIII

Bands!Bands!Bands! Volume XIII
Featuring: Sharon, Diamond Day, Hot Pot & Sweet Delirium
Tuesday, September 17th
Doors: 7 PM | Show: 7:30 PM 
Advance: $7 | Door: $10
All Ages

Bands!Bands!Bands! is celebrating one year! 🎉 To date, we have brought 48 different emerging local bands to our stage and given them the opportunity to show the crowd their exceptional talent. 🎈

Don’t miss VOL. XIII on September 17th… With three returning acts, Sharon, Chilko in the Rosemary and Sweet Delirium and one brand new band to our stage, Diamond Day, you won’t want to miss this birthday celebration!

Don't miss out, grab your tickets now!

Sharon
Under the dark and dank depths of the universal sock drawer you will find a mold, a special kind of mold. SHARONITUS-ZYGOMYCOTA! If harvested and spread over Primus's 'Pork Soda' album on Vinyl, then Mahler's 2nd symphony also on Vinyl is layed on top of that one, making a music/mold sandwich, you can frisbee toss it to the moon and in 7 nights the moon will spit back a map containing directions to the next SHARON show. Go on. Get to it. What does it say? Oh yes, it says September 17th at the VEC. Welp you already put in the effort of making that monstrosity so you might as well go to that show.

Diamond Day
From janky glitch-pop drums to jangly guitars on the verge of explosion; Diamond Day reshape shoegaze into their hazy electro dreamworld. Led by Rosier’s Béatrix Méthé and Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist, Quinn Bachand, the project began when Quinn moved to Boston as a teenager. The pair discovered an undeniable synergy after meeting at a music festival. Every weekend, Quinn would hop on a Montréal-bound greyhound to write, record and develop songs in Béatrix’s plateau apartment. Their debut record, Connect the Dots, is a “hypnotic and shoegazey alt-pop fever dream.” Méthé and Bachand enlisted a dream pop A-team–including producers Jorge Elbrecht and feeble little horse’s Sebastian Kinsler–to synthesize their expansive aesthetic over 10 tracks. Méthé’s magnetic vocals, catchy hooks and stream-of-consciousness lyrics became the band’s razor-sharp focus, cutting through Bachand's billowing noise-pop soundscapes and creating retro-futuristic euphoria.

Hot Pot
What’s in the pot? HOT POT is a gaggle of baddies that bounce in the space between Jazz, RnB, Reggae, Funk, Soul, Hip-Hop, and other genres of black music from this hemisphere, enhanced with a strong Asian flavour. They love laying down a feral og groove and busting out moves with the crowd, almost as much as they love talking about themselves in third person.

Sweet Delirium
ꜱᴡᴇᴇᴛ ᴅᴇʟɪʀɪᴜᴍ 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 4-𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖, 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙖. 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙪𝙡𝙚 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝙩𝙚𝙫 𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙪 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘰 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 2017; 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙩. 𝙟𝙤𝙝𝙣 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙜 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 2021 𝘢𝘯𝘥 2023. 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪-𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦, 𝘵𝘦𝘷 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴. 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘩𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘮 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳; 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘦𝘷 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴.

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