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!

Taking a break from their ongoing tour with Liars, Asthmatic Kitty recording artists Fol Chen from Highland Park CA will be playing the Media Club on July 11th with locals Fine Mist and Babe Rainbow.

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Doors at 8. Tickets $13 are available at Scratch, Red Cat, Zulu and online at TicketWeb.

This is probably going to be the most anticipated event of your summer. 12 local Vancouver bands will be gracing the Biltmore stage performing 2-3 song cover sets of really smooth music (yacht rock). Think: Toto, Kenny Loggins, Hall & Oates, Chicago, Christopher Cross… the list goes on and on (and on and on and on). Here are the 12 bands that will have you swimming in smoothness on August 28th (in no particular order):

• B-Lines
• Boogie Monster
• Red Cedar
• The Greff Band
• Jody Glenham
• Apollo Ghosts
• Role Mach
• Valerie Graham
• Fine Mist
• MT-40
• Thee Ahs
• Shane Turner Overdrive

Tickets will be $12 at the door (that’s a buck a band!) or they can be pre-purchased at Zulu, Scratch and Red Cat. Sponsored by: Sewells Marina, and CiTR 101.9 FM.