Woolworm, Motorists, Window Lamp, Silvering, Temps and Sonido Nuevo

Sled Island and The Palomino present; Woolworm (Vancouver) / Motorists (Toronto) / Window Lamp (Calgary) / Silvering (Calgary) / Temps (Calgary) / Sonido Nuevo (Calgary)

Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary
http://thepalomino.ca/
18+ with government issued identification
When: Friday March 25th, 2022
Admission: $20.00 advance
Doors: 8:00pm
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!

 

Woolworm (Vancouver)
Leaders of their own self-created genre "Blanket Rock," Woolworm are a band from Vancouver, British Columbia whose music is a fusion of hardcore, indie rock, shoegaze, and ambitious pop. Led by singer and guitarist Giles Roy, Woolworm made a scrappy but stylish debut with their 2009 EP no caps. They'd gained plenty in the way of technique and songwriting savvy when their first full-length album, Believe in Ourselves, was given a release on cassette in 2012, and after signing to Mint Records, they enjoyed a critical and popular breakthrough with 2017's Deserve to Die.

The Woolworm story begins in 2008 when lead singer and guitarist Giles Roy, guitarist Alex Pomeroy, and drummer Nick Tolliday decided to form a band not long after they finished high school. After several rehearsals, Tolliday got in an argument with his bandmates and quit, leaving Roy and Pomeroy to form a new group without him. The two teamed up with drummer Ben Purp and bassist Felicity Herst and began playing out, releasing a four-song EP, no caps, in 2009. By the time the group brought out the six-song follow-up hearted a year later, Purp was out of the group and Naoyuki Harada, aka Noogz, took over on drums. A three-song single, is pain, followed in 2011, and the next year, the group released their first album, Believe in Ourselves, initially issued only on cassette.

Not long after the arrival of Believe in Ourselves, Herst dropped out of the group, and Heather Black became their bass player. Noogz also left Woolworm, and when they released the 2015 EP Everything Seems Obvious, Nick Tolliday, who had buried the hatchet with Roy and Pomeroy, was behind the drum kit. A cassette single titled "Vampirism" appeared in 2016, and the respected Canadian indie label Mint Records signed Woolworm to a recording contract. Their first LP for Mint, 2017's Deserve to Die, was the group's most polished and ambitious achievement to date, and earned Woolworm enthusiastic reviews in the Canadian press. The album was popular enough to quickly sell out its vinyl run, setting the stage for their third full-length release, 2019's Awe.
- https://www.allmusic.com/https://twitter.com/creatureovmyth
https://www.facebook.com/wlwrm/
https://woolworm.bandcamp.com

Motorists (Toronto)
Driving is a huge part of rock and roll’s enduring mythology. Images of cruising down the highway with friends and lovers while basking in the freedom of the open road pervade pop music’s lyrical canon. Yet, so often, these idealized images clash with the everyday drudgery of being a motorist: traffic jams, detours, and bad news on the radio.
This tension is central to Motorists’ debut LP, Surrounded—an album that is as much about the colourful possibilities of life as it is about the way those possibilities are boxed in by technologies. It’s clear that, for the band, creative collaboration is the only way to break the tension. In a world where everyone’s been in their own bubble, Motorists have pushed theirs together and worked through feelings of isolation as a group, to the tune of jangly guitars, infectious power pop.
https://motorists.bandcamp.com/

Window Lamp (Calgary)
New group Window Lamp is an interdisciplinary collective project with an ethereal take on surf rock. Their guitar and percussion jangle along as an intentional echo for vocalist Haley Gunn’s reluctant spoken-then-sung vocals. Her words and moans clamber to narrative fruition, while the beat builds to support her vocal thought-process throughout. - https://m.sledisland.com/2019/window-lamp
https://windowlamp.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/windowlamp/

Silvering (Calgary)
Shalom Toy is a master of her voice. She unwaveringly changes her tonal delivery from one line to the next to an enchanting and beautiful effect. Silvering’s 2019 EP takes the behind-closed-doors sincerity of bedroom pop and injects it with the energy of playing in front of crowds who shout back every line. - https://m.sledisland.com/2019/silvering
https://silvering.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/silveringmusic/

Temps
Temps is a Calgary based four piece put together by guitarist/composer David Lavoie. The group has Aidan O’reilly (Dories) on guitar, Will Johnson (Gretchen) on bass and Tyler Ardnt (Uncanny Valley) on drums and formed after Lavoie relocated to Calgary in late 2020. Lavoie wrote most of their debut album “Mid Cycle” in early 2020 and later collaborated with guitarist O’reilly to finish the writing process. The album was written in response to existentialism and capitalism during the pandemic and Lavoie relocating from Vancouver to Calgary, two very distinct cities. Stylistically the band takes cues from Canadian post-punk and draws on Lavoie’s background in jazz. Each band member has spent time in different cities over the last several years and has come together in Calgary to form this driving group with a clear vision.

Sonido Nuevo
Sonido Nuevo is the name Scott White's song-writing and production project, which sounds like the place where Tame Impala, Van Halen, and 70's Jazz-Funk meet. So far Scott has released 2 singles under the Sonido Nuevo banner: "Doggy Dreamland" is an instrumental synth oriented piece, and "Staycation" is an easy breezy Latin jazz inspired funk song. After spending almost a decade in art-rock-psych band 36?, Scott began to write and record songs that drew from inspirations closer to his background in Jazz harmony with psychedelic soundscapes and funky grooves. On record Sonido Nuevo songs are construcuted part by part by Scott in the studio with Evan Petkau supplying drums and Mike Malkin on bass, but live the songs come with Jazzy improvisation akin to a BADBADNOTGOOD or Thundercat show once Seyoung Lee adds his keyboard mastery.
https://sonidonuevo.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thebandsonidonuevo

 

Attendance at The Palomino Smokehouse will require proof of vaccination or a Covid negative test result within 72 hours of any events door time. Masks are required.
For more information please contact info@thepalomino.ca

Remember if you are experiencing or exhibiting any of the symptoms below you should stay home and undertake the monitoring and testing recommended by Alberta Health Services here: https://www.alberta.ca/covid-19-testing-in-alberta.aspx
• Fever
• Cough (new cough or worsening chronic
cough)
• Shortness of breath/difficulty breathing
(new or worsening)
• Runny nose
• Sore throat
• Stuffy nose
• Painful swallowing
• Headache
• Chills
• Muscle/joint ache
• Feeling unwell/fatigue/severe
exhaustion
• Nausea/vomiting/diarrhea/unexplained
loss of appetite
• Loss of sense of smell or taste
• Conjunctivitis

*This event takes place on the territory of the Blackfoot and the people of Treaty 7 Region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikuni, the Kainai, the Tsuu T'ina and the Stoney Nakoda First Nations. Calgary is also home to the Metis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
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