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Smooth Sailing 2 – And the winner(s) is(are)…

Carter — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:21:14 +0000

I think we all know Kevin (the mermaid) is the real winner here, but as runners-up to the night, here are the top three smoothest bands from Smooth Sailing 2, as voted by you on Friday:

1st Place: Aunts & Uncles
2nd Place: The Greff Band
3rd Place: Dan Moxon

The Prizes:

The first place prize is a boat rental from the awesome marina out at Horeshoe Bay, Sewell’s Marina. Second place prize is a night at the hotel above the Biltmore Cabaret, and the third place prize is a collection of the smoothest Vinyl, thanks to Vintage Media (Main st. and 12th Ave). Congratulations guys, we’ll get in touch to deliver the goods.

Thanks again to all of the bands (and friends of bands) who participated, it was a blast. If anyone has some photos or video of the night, please contact us so we can post it! (follow us on twitter for updates)

2nd Annual SMOOTH SAILING!! Get out your harpoons!

Carter — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:36:19 +0000

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:

Click here to view the embedded video.

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!

More Photos from Smooth Sailing! Batch #2

Carter — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:09:11 +0000

Here are some more sweet photos from Smooth Sailing at the Biltmore last Friday, this time courtesy of Noah Adams. Let us know in the comments if you have any pictures you want us to post. We’ve got at least one more batch on the way…

Ryan Dyck of the B-Lines performing an award winning “Kokomo”. Photo: Noah Adams

And now the full slideshow:

And the Winner is… (plus photos from Smooth Sailing)

Carter — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:08:30 +0000

Thanks to everyone that came out to the Biltmore for Smooth Sailing on Friday night, it was a huge success and I hope everyone had as much fun as we did! All 12 bands were phenomenal and they made the night run like clockwork. The Margaritas and Piña Coladas were drained, the Toast Collective hosted a great after party, and nobody drowned as far as I’m aware. At the end of the night we had about 100 votes in the ballot box which was more than enough to tally up the winners (keep reading to find out who they are.)

Jared Greff of The Greff Band doing “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. Photo by Shaun Stander

The Winners

In 3rd place we have MT-40, receivers of a mind blowing really smooth music vinyl collection!

In 2nd place, the runners-up were B-Lines, who will get a free night at the Howard Johnson Biltmore hotel!

And the 1st place winners of Smooth Sailing were…. The Greff Band, who win a boat rental at Sewells Marina out in Horseshoe Bay!!

Congratulations to all the bands! Friday night was epic, and I hope we can do it again.

Photos: Part one of many

There are a number of photos circulating out there, if you want us to post yours, contact us and we’ll put ‘em up. Here are some awesome shots from Shaun Stander:

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Photos by Shaun Stander – www.shaunstander.com.

Stay tuned for some video of the night!

Smooth Sailing: 12 Local Bands + Smooth Music

Carter — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:50:52 +0000

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):

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.