Smooth Sailing last year – debauchery at the end of the night. Photo: Noah Adams

For any of you that missed it last year, Smooth Sailing is 12 local Vancouver bands of all genres doing their renditions of “really smooth music” and “yacht rock” (all the tacky brilliant 70′s & 80′s soft rock ballads you can think of – Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Toto, Hall & Oates, Foreigner, etc..) Here’s a good place to start:

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Here’s the lineup so far:

• Edo Van Breemen (from Brasstronaut) – myspace with Fine Mist – myspace
• The Greff Band (last year’s winners) – myspace
• Minto – myspace
• Dan Moxon (from Bend Sinister) – myspace
• Aunts & Uncles – myspace
• Weekend Leisure – myspace
• Kidnap Kids – myspace
• Chris-a-Riffic / Bible Belts – myspace
• Katie GoGo – myspace
• Vincent Parker – myspace
• Tape Moss
• Louise Burns – myspace

Tickets available at Scratch, Red Cat, Zulu and you can buy them online here. Get them quick – we were a packed house last year!