Hard to believe an entire year has gone by since our last smooth sailing, yacht rocking event. I hope you all kept the fire, and are ready to sail away once again. Friday September 3rd, make sure you show up at the Biltmore Cabaret for our 2nd annual Smooth Sailing event! 12 bands, $12 bucks, great theatrics and delicious margaritas!

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!

Owen Ashworth and a Casio SK-1 have been on the road for a while now and soon that road will lead them to the Biltmore. After completing a rather hefty tour through Europe, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone will be making a stop in Vancouver in support of his new album “Vs. Children” Equally exciting is his support: To Bad Catholics (Nick and Julia from No Kids, P:Ano) and Edo Van Breemen (The Clips, Brasstronaut).

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“Backed by suitably uncluttered beats, melancholy drones and bittersweet melodies; these bleak filmic vignettes reward you from the first listen – the lyrics create whole worlds using few words, “Woke up with fingers crossed, in a boy’s bed with your pants off, after polite declines of coffee and toast, walked home itching in last nights clothes”. Mainly sung with male vocals, the occasional song has a female lead which adds poignancy…”
-Colin Spencer (SPILL)