Spoon

One of indie rock's most critically acclaimed acts, Spoon have earned a reputation for being consistently inventive and inventively consistent. They arrived as brash post-punkers in the post-grunge lull of the mid-'90s, but in the decade that followed, Spoon truly came into their own. On 2001's Girls Can Tell and 2002's Kill the Moonlight, they stripped rock down to its most essential elements, then used the empty space that remained to play with shifting rhythms, taut guitars and literate lyrics in ways that sounded innovative and timeless. 

This heady blend of precision punk and serpentine classic rock (the band has drawn comparisons to everyone from the Pixies and Sonic Youth to Elvis Costello and Tom Petty) eventually earned Spoon commercial success as well as glowing reviews: Their 2007 album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, was a top 10 hit in the U.S.. Over the years, the band continued to evolve while remaining true to their minimalist roots. They opened up their sound on 2017's dance-tinged Hot Thoughts, then went back to basics with the raw rock of 2022's Lucifer on the Sofa, both of which exemplified how Spoon found new ways of doing what they've always done. Spoon was formed in Austin, TX in 1993 by singer/guitarist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno, who met during their time in the band Alien Beats. 

Taking their name from a Can song, Spoon's debut EP Nefarious appeared on the small Texas imprint Fluffer Records in May 1994. The band signed to Matador the following year, and issued their first full-length Telephono in April 1996. Produced by the Reivers' John Croslin and recorded in his garage studio for $3,000, the album reached number 35 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart, while its noisy, hooky take on post-punk drew favorable comparisons to Pixies and Wire. Daniel and Eno added bassist Josh Zarbo (formerly of the local band Maxine's Radiator) to the fold in 1997, and honed in on the tight, minimalist pop that became Spoon's forte with that year's Soft Effects EP. 

In 1998, the band began a brief and tumultuous stint on Elektra Records, who released Spoon's second album A Series of Sneaks that May. Once again, the album earned favorable reviews, but its sales were disappointing to Elektra, which was in the midst of an internal company shake-up at the time. Four months after the album's release, the label dropped Spoon (in 2002, Merge reissued A Series of Sneaks with two bonus tracks that chronicled the group's disappointment with major-label politics). Daniel moved to New York City, working temp jobs and writing songs, while Eno remained in Austin and designed semiconductor chips. Spoon then signed with the prominent indie label Merge Records, where the band went on to carve out its niche in the increasingly widening modern rock mainstream. 

After the release of 2000's Love Ways EP, their sound became increasingly adventurous on 2001's Girls Can Tell. Recorded in Eno's home studio with producer Mike McCarthy, the album's songs were informed by the Kinks, the Supremes, and Elvis Costello. Girls Can Tell built on Spoon's critical acclaim, and sold more than their two previous albums combined. The band capitalized on this success, releasing Kill the Moonlight in August 2002. Hitting number 46 on the Billboard's Independent Albums chart, the album added piano, tambourine and other percussion to Spoon's increasingly stark yet catchy approach, as on the single "The Way We Get By." Daniel began writing songs for the band's next album in 2003. The results were May 2005's cinematic Gimme Fiction, which added multi-instrumentalist Eric Harvey to the fold and debuted at number 44 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. 

After Daniel collaborated with composer Brian Reitzell on the music for the 2006 film Stranger Than Fiction, Spoon's success continued to grow with July 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. The first album to feature bassist Rob Hope (Zarbo departed earlier in 2007), it made it to number ten on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, sold over 300,000 copies in the U.S. and topped many publications' year-end lists. Spoon, who by this time had become a fixture on soundtracks, television programs, and late-night talk shows, released their seventh full-length album Transference in January 2010 to a number four debut on the Billboard 200. After touring in support of the album, the band took a few years off. Daniel formed Divine Fits with Handsome Furs' Dan Boeckner, and the band released its debut album, A Thing Called Divine Fits, in 2012. Meanwhile, Eno concentrated on production work, collaborating with artists including the Strange Boys, Alejandro Escovedo, and the Heartless Bastards. Spoon resurfaced in August 2014 with They Want My Soul. 

The band's eighth album featured new member multi-instrumentalist Alex Fischel and also marked their first time working with an outside producer in the shape of Dave Fridmann. Hailed by the band as its "loudest and gnarliest" work to date, it was issued by August 2014 through Loma Vista Recordings in the U.S. and Anti in Europe. Like its predecessor, it reached number four on the Billboard 200. The following year, Spoon commemorated the 10th anniversary of Gimme Fiction's release with a deluxe reissue. Late in 2016, the song "I Ain't the One" was featured on the Showtime dramedy Shameless, offering the first taste of Spoon's ninth album. Hot Thoughts, which reunited the band with Fridmann and ranged from dance-rock to stripped-down ballads, was released by Matador in March 2017 and peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200. Two years later, Spoon issued the best-of collection Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon, a selection of the band's definitive tracks and the new song "No Bullets Spent." Arriving in February 2022, Spoon's gritty tenth full-length Lucifer on the Sofa was co-produced by Mark Rankin and Justin Raisen. Featuring guitarist/keyboardist Gerardo Larios and bassist/keyboardist Ben Trokan, the album's influences included the band's live shows, Daniel's return to Austin, and the music of ZZ Top. ~ James Christopher Monger & Heather Phares, Rovi

<p>Doors 7:00 Show 8:00 PM<br /><br /></p>
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Located in beautiful downtown Victoria, BC the Capital Ballroom has solidified itself as Victoria’s premiere event and live music venue. 

Capital Ballroom

LIVE NATION PRESENTS: SPOON - LUCIFER ON THE SOFA TOUR

WILDLIFE DIVISION SHOWCASE

<p><strong>SATURNA W/ SILK STATIC, KILBORNE, EERIE ANTICS, JAEDE, MUCKSLUCK  </strong>                                                                                  <br /><br />Doors: 7:00 PM Show 8:00 PM </p>

11:45 - Sauce Island

<p><strong>With Corontion Collective, Rylis, Young Negrense &amp; Tristan Renaud</strong></p>
<p>Doors 8:00 Show 9:00 PM</p>
<p>SAUCE ISLAND will be a night of hip hop, R&amp;B, and pop music provided by local artists from Victoria and surrounding areas. Doors open at 8, show starts at 9 and will go until 2AM. The lineup features members of YUZZYNET: Rylis, Young Negrense and producer Tristan Renaud. Also performing is Coronation Collective (Corey Calabasas, producer YoEmmett and guests). Headlining the show will be 11:45/240miriani. </p>
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Charlotte Cardin – Phoenix

<p>Doors 7:00 Show 8:00 PM</p>
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LIVE NATION PRESENTS: Charlotte Cardin – Phoenix

ADG7 - Korean Shamanic Folk-Pop

<div class="gmail_default">Doors 7:30 Show 8:30 PM</div>
<p dir="ltr">&ldquo;A most astonishing show musically and immensely entertaining- Ak Dan Gwang Chil from South Korea. WOW!!!&rdquo; (Bob Boilen, NPR Music)</p>
<p dir="ltr">&ldquo;The nine-member ensemble presents itself not as earnest traditionalists, but as a giddy show band with all the trappings of K-pop &mdash; choreographed singers, candy-colored costumes and bouncy, upbeat, often swinging songs that link the concision of folk tunes to the catchy repetition of pop, with brash cymbals for drive and flute and zither lines for instrumental hooks.&rdquo;&nbsp; (The New York Times)</p>
<p dir="ltr">&ldquo;There's a flowering folk-roots revival in South Korea - but no band combines virtuosity, charisma, and pure energy like Ak Dan Gwang Chil&rdquo; (WFMU)</p>
<p dir="ltr">&quot;&quot;a band of outrageously dressed superheroes playing a dynamic amalgam of every perfect dance style ever invented with such an infectious lack of self-restraint that you fear autocratic governments the world over will proscribe them before their citizens can be contaminated. Would that fly?&quot; The good news for Tinseltown is that such a group already exists, they come from Korea and they are called Ak Dan Gwang Chil (or ADG7). You&rsquo;ll believe this band can fly.&quot; (Songlines Magazine)</p>
<p dir="ltr">With one foot in the world of tradition and another in glitzy upbeat pop, ADG7 (Ak Dan Gwang Chil) is a multi-award winning group featuring three powerhouse female folk singers and a rich repertoire inspired by Korea's sacred, shamanic ritual music (gut) and beloved folk songs (minyo) of Hwanghae Province in the northern reaches of the Peninsula. Their powerful performances engage and immerse like no other, presenting the spiritual blessings and positive energy of traditional music in a thoroughly modern and often comical style.</p>
<p dir="ltr">ADG7 was organized in 2015, the year Korea commemorated its 70th anniversary of national liberation. By reconnecting with and reimaging shared Korean cultural roots, ADG7 expresses the true meaning of liberation and the desire for unification. The group's recognitions include Best Group at the 2018 KBS Korean Traditional Music Awards and the Sori Frontier Award at the 2017 Jeongju International Sori Festival, plus recent performances at WOMEX (World Music Expo) 2019 and globalFEST 2020 as an official artists and upcoming shows as a grantee of Mid Atlantic Tours' 2020-2021 touring roster.<br /><br />With Special Guest Hannah Epperson<br /><br />ABOUT HANNAH EPPERSON<br />With violin, loop pedal, voice and innovative rhythmic improvisations with proximate objects, Hannah weaves uncanny connection with her audiences, taking listeners on exhilarating journeys. As a companion in musical experience, she is powerful yet playful and gentle, often exploring the essential cultural and political matters of our age without ever leaving the miracle of the commonplace or us behind. Hannah Epperson has been called a neo-classical composer and musician, indie folk/rocker and avant-garde pop artist. She&rsquo;s performed at jazz and electronica, folk, art, new music and rock festivals.<br />&amp;bdquo; &amp;hellip; defies the expectations of pop music&amp;hellip; The end product is unique, haunting, addictive&rdquo; &ndash; Ted Gioia<br />&amp;bdquo; As a rising millennial artist, her chilling and evocative voice is nothing short of extraordinary.&ldquo; &ndash; La Blogoth&egrave;que<br /><br />ARTIST WEBSITE:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hannahepperson.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.hannahepperson.ca/</a></p>
<div class="gmail_default"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Band Links:</span></strong></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><br />WEBSITE: <a href="http://www.sori.nyc/adg7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.sori.nyc/adg7</a></div>
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<p dir="ltr">FACEBOOK: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/akdangwangchil/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/akdangwangchil/</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">INSTAGRAM: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/akdangwangchil/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/akdangwangchil/</a></p>
<span id="m_9206234075920834515m_-8254195241381015426gmail-docs-internal-guid-d2e685d3-7fff-70d0-753e-c428fb4e2c20">YOUTUBE: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/akdangwangchil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.youtube.com/akdangwangchil</a></span></div>

Caravan World Rhythms Presents: ADG7 - Korean Shamanic Folk-Pop

MENAGERIE [Victoria Pride] DANCE PARTY

<p><strong>9:00PM-2:00AM <br /><br /></strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">We've all come out of hibernation, everyone is thirsty, and it's time to unleash your inner dance beast! Held at the fabulous CAPITAL BALLROOM, a multi-level, 500+ capacity special events space! Let us take you on a musical safari as our collection of gorgeous go-gos melt the stage, while you explore the various areas and dive into the immersive electro-sexual environment!</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><br /><strong>MENAGERIE</strong> is Vancouver's newest full scale high production gay dance party series, curated by <strong>TodB</strong> (Harness, TOM, and RUFF) and <strong>IsaacT</strong> (Central Studios, Sin City, SPANK, Vancouver Fetish Weekend &amp; Restricted Entertainment) ... and by popular demand we're coming to VICTORIA!</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><br />TICKET INFO à all ticket types give equal access to all areas of the party, it’s just cheaper the sooner you buy them!  Snap yours up and save a couple $!<br /><br />STAY IN TOUCH WITH US DIRECTLY FOR UPCOMING EVENTS AND DON’T RELY ON SOCIAL MEDIA!  Sign up for our Newsletter at à <a href="https://mailchi.mp/e5514bb87259/menagerie?fbclid=IwAR1G2oEiym_480nqor6MagntjIHszBEfUcbWoMvMBR96G_szwpbM94yY3u8">https://mailchi.mp/e5514bb87259/menagerie</a></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Nathan Mots (Victoria)<br />Pandemonium (Vancouver)</p>
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<h3> Roving Photogaphers </h3>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">- custom built dance cages &amp; stages<br />- extra lighting installations</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><br />Dress up or dress down!</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><br />Come casual in whatever outfit makes you feel comfortable but get ready to get sweaty since the call of the wild dancefloor will be hard to resist!</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><br />Or, take the opportunity to dress up in a wild kingdom theme, anything from just some animal print on a piece of clothing, to full on kink or costume creations including :</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><br />- bears, puppies, bulldogs, otters<br />- lions, tigers &amp; big sexy cats<br />- colourful birds of paradise<br />- fur &amp; feather accessories</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><br />Coat check on site if you want to bring a change of outfit to wear inside!</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><u><strong>SOCIAL LINKS :</strong></u><br /><br />Facebook Event<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/3266970273626949" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.facebook.com/events/3266970273626949</a><br /><br />Instagram :<br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/menagerievancouver/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/menagerievancouver/</a></p>
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Wild Rivers

<p>Doors 7:00 Show 8:00 PM</p>
<p>In the best interest of fans and staff, the Event Organizer will continue to monitor local COVID-19 trends and meet or exceed protocols mandated by local governments. By purchasing tickets to this event, you agree to abide by the health and safety measures in effect at the time of the event, which may include, but not be limited to, wearing masks, providing proof of vaccination status and/or providing proof of negative COVID-19 test. Please note these confirmations will apply to all members of your party before they are allowed to enter the event and to any users of the tickets purchased by you. Check back often for updates to your event venue website as guidelines are subject to change.</p>

LIVE NATION PRESENTS: WILD RIVERS

WONDERMENT-AT-NIGHT

<p>Show: 9:00PM<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>FRIDAY, JULY 29</strong></p>
<div>Wonderment-At-Night</div>
<div>9pm-2am</div>
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<div><span id="m_-6848891752937295395goog_1109141948"></span>Kenny Glasgow<span id="m_-6848891752937295395goog_1109141949"></span> (Art Department, Toronto)</div>
<div>Nitin (No. 19 Records, Toronto)</div>
<div>Jay Tripwire (Live Performance)</div>
<div>Righteous Rainbows of Togetherness (Live)</div>
<div>Thom Banks</div>
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<div>Supported by the Government of Canada, Creative BC, BC Arts Council, Capital Regional District and the City of Victoria.</div>
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<div><a href="https://wonderment.ca/">www.wonderment.ca</a></div>
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WONDERMENT-AT-NIGHT - Kenny Glasgow, Nitin, Jay Tripwire, RRoT, Thom Banks

<p>Show: 9:00PM</p>
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<div><strong>SATURDAY, JULY 30</strong></div>
<div>Wonderment-At-Night</div>
<div>9pm-2am</div>
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<div>Azu Tiwaline LIVE (Tunisia)</div>
<div>Phaeleh (Bristol UK)</div>
<div>Michael Red (Live-DJ Set)</div>
<div>Handsome Tiger (Vancouver)</div>
<div>Ca&ccedil;adora</div>
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<div>Supported by the Government of Canada, Creative BC, BC Arts Council, Capital Regional District and the City of Victoria.<br /><br /><a href="https://wonderment.ca/">www.wonderment.ca</a></div>
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WONDERMENT-AT-NIGHT - Azu Tiwaline, Phaeleh, Handsome Tiger, Michael Red, Caçadora

Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers

<p>NEW CONCERT DATE! The Death From Above 1979 concert has been rescheduled to October 25th at the Capital Ballroom. All previous tickets purchased will be valid for the new show. All you need to do is update your calendar and we'll see you there! </p>
<p>Doors 7:00 Show 8:00 PM</p>
<p>Is 4 Lovers<br />● In 2021, Death From Above 1979 (DFA), Sebastien Grainger (vocals, drums)<br />and Jesse F. Keeler (bass, keys, synths) will mark 20 years as one of the<br />most exciting and influential combos to shake up the rock-‘n’-roll landscape<br />since the turn of the last millennium with their new album, Is 4 Lovers, out<br />March 26.<br />● DFA has never sounded more assuredly like itself than it does on Is 4 Lovers.<br />With Grainger’s distinctive drums and Keeler’s deft bass playing, DFA revels<br />in the joy of unfettered creative freedom on their perfect-for-the-moment fourth<br />LP.<br />● The pair locked themselves away for several weeks in a single room in a<br />basement in Los Angeles’s Highland Park to see what would happen and<br />eventually emerged with the purest distillation yet of the power, precision and<br />nuanced personality at the heart of DFA’s unique and influential vision. This<br />time around, the overriding credo driving the two-decade-long musical<br />partnership was simply to have fun.<br />● “I really love that kind of Daniel Lanois style of one room, where the<br />control room is the whole studio,” says Grainger. “And because we<br />decided to do it ourselves I thought there was no other way to do it<br />than to just get a room, put all the equipment in it and be able to make<br />a whole record within four walls.”<br />● “There was nobody else. There was no one other than us directing the<br />ship,” affirms Keeler. “On the last two records, we had a third voice<br />both times to get it done. And this one we just made alone. So if it<br />sounds more like us it’s probably just because it’s our ideas with no<br />one to answer to but each other, really. And we’re too agreeable.<br />Something would have to be so far out of the wheelhouse for either of<br />us to say anything.”</p>
<p>● Part of the fun of the album is unpacking all of its unexpected discoveries with<br />unmistakably DFA-esque cuts - like the first single “One+One” and the searing<br />anti-tech screed “Totally Wiped Out”. Listen for a giddily outraged two-part<br />suite taking down the “NYC Power Elite”, separating the unintentional A and B<br />side of the album, a world-weary anti-war anthem “No War” and, in the<br />opening track “Modern Guy,” a cyber-metal riff-monster.<br />● “For me, ‘Mean Streets’ is what pulls it together because it’s the bridge<br />between everything,” says Keeler. “It’s beautiful, there’s a fuckin’ choir<br />of people singing on it and it’s this piano riff that I wrote in a very sad,<br />lonely moment in my life on one of my children’s guitars and then<br />translated it to piano. And then from the furthest, soft reaches it<br />becomes the hardest, fastest moment on the record – the most Bad<br />Brains we’ve ever been.”</p>
<p>● Is 4 Lovers – which hits all the marks from metal and hardcore to glam and<br />disco to electro-pop and piano balladry – will surprise you.<br />About Death From Above 1979 (DFA)<br />● Death From Above 1979 (DFA), the boundary pushing musical alliance<br />created by Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler, roared out of Toronto<br />with the uncompromising one-two punch of 2002’s fuzz-bomb EP Heads Up<br />and 2004’s epochal debut album You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, complete<br />with a North American arena tour with Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the<br />Stone Age, before deciding mid-tour to part ways due to the strain of<br />constantly touring.<br />● Almost a decade later, the rekindled DFA fireworks lit stages around the world<br />a blaze - amassing a posse of fans so passionate they incited a genuine,<br />barricade-smashing riot at Austin’s Beauty Bar at the 2011 South by<br />Southwest festival. Playing Lollapalooza, Coachella, Glastonbury, Reading /<br />Leeds, Osheaga, Lowlands and more, DFA continued to take the world by<br />storm. Their second album, The Physical World (2014) took a No. 3 spot on<br />the Canadian Billboard album chart and peaked at No. 28 on the U.S. Hot<br />200, not to mention No. 3 and No. 7 shots on Billboard’s Top Alternative and<br />Top Rock registries, respectively. TV appearances around their first two<br />albums on iconic late-night shows including David Letterman, Conan O’Brien<br />and Jimmy Fallon showed a whole new audience the DFA live goods.<br />● Arriving at No. 20 on the Canadian Billboard album chart, DFA’s scorching<br />2017 outing, Outrage! Is Now prompted Pitchfork to remark that “Death From<br />Above now sounds more vital than ever.” With three smashing albums to their<br />name, the duo drummed up an easy 10 million views before going silent once<br />more, to the dismay of fans.<br />● Now, in 2021, DFA is back with Is 4 Lovers - once again creating a new sound<br />and reimagining the format they created more than 20 years ago.</p>

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More Events at Capital Ballroom

WILDLIFE DIVISION SHOWCASE

11:45 - Sauce Island

Charlotte Cardin – Phoenix

ADG7 - Korean Shamanic Folk-Pop

MENAGERIE [Victoria Pride] DANCE PARTY

Wild Rivers

WONDERMENT-AT-NIGHT

WONDERMENT-AT-NIGHT

Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers