Festival Addict: Flood Island continues in wake of Sled Island cancellation, Night Marchers bring the house down at Rock Lounge on Friday night, more shows planned for Saturday and Sunday
See that right up there? That’s The Night Marchers who, despite being in lockdown in a downtown Calgary hotel rooted in flood waters, made it over to the safe side of the city and played an impromptu show at the cock-rocking Rock Lounge, much to the utter delight of those who found out in time.
And so Flood Island officially took off last night, house shows and bar shows popping up all over the flooded city in safe areas and even some not-so-safe areas (or so I’m told).
Yesterday I started listing some of the things going on around town that I could find out about and christened it FLOOD ISLAND. Now there’s an official Flood Island 2013 at The Alibi Room and an official Flood Island 2013 twitter account.
My job as therealjasonschreurs is to spread the word and I’m not stopping yet. We’re here until tomorrow morning (and then we hope to be able to return to beautiful British Columbia) but there’s still one more night to see some more great music.
***UPDATE NEW STUFF:
***Another house show just popped up here with The Hooves (punk from Vancouver), Callow (psych-alt-country from San Francisco), Technical Kidman (shoegaze post-prog from Montreal) and Noble Oak (synth-rock from Vancouver).
***Kensington neighbourhood hosts flood relief party featuring Lowell (Toronto weird pop), Running (Chicago), and local band Surf Kitties. Info here.
MORE INFO ON THE KENSINGTON STREET PARTY:
SAT Jun 22 @6PM MDT Address: 220 11th Street NW, Calgary (Street Concert)
***House show Trigger Effect (Quebec metal/punk), The Weir (Calgary post-metal), and The Roaches (?):
Trigger Effect
House show in Calgary TONIGHT!
W/THE WEIR & THE ROACHES
9pm @ 1506 19 ave SW
Let’s fucking party!
835 19 ave NW
“@quartermass: The @weirdcanada show @tubbydoghotdogs is ON” #sledisland #yyclivemusic
Lots goin on with #sledisland refugee party at @NewWunderbar + @Barberha and #blockout party w/ @elmcafe + @SNAPgallery. A good #yeg day.
Tryna git a house show near 17th going! Holla. #floodisland #sledisland
Looking for bands to play a house show tonight just off 17th avenue!!! Please spread the word!! #yyc #sledisland @sledisland
Here’s what I know so far, feel free to post anything additional:
Sled Island evacuation party at the Rude Haus for the second night! Facebook event page here.
Huge “Shred” Island relief party in Edmonton. Facebook event page here.
Spontaneous recording sessions at OCL Studios. Info here.
Flood Island 2013 at The ALIBI Room (5403 Crowchild Tr. N.W.) Saturday at 9:30, Sunday at 3pm. Facebook: Flood Island, @403alibi @floodisland for details |
Concert tonight to raise funds for #yycflood. 220 11 ST NW 6PM with Lowell, Surf Kitties, Running (More TBA) #SledIsland #SledIslandLives RT
Flood Island 2013 @ The Alibi: Sat & Sunday..The Victories, Astral Swanns, Pick A Piper & much, much more! #FloodIsland
Last night’s NIGHT MARCHERS / BIBLICAL pick up show was righteous! Working on another BIBLICAL show tonite.Details to follow! #floodisland
And there’s a pretty cool groundswell campaign to refuse Sled Island refunds in hopes that the festival can get back on its feet:
@kathelemon Right. Also planning to refuse my Sled Island refund — I fear for their ability to do future festivals.
I’ll post more stuff as I hear about it.
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