Saturday, 17 January 2009

Asleep On A Train

You know just last week I mentioned/complained to a friend how there’s really not a lot of great indie shows on the horizon and how our city seemed to be in a sort of announcement funk. His response was, on hindsight, fairly obvious: Would you want to tour Canada, let alone stop in Winnipeg, in the winter?

Point acknowledged. (Aside: Let’s hear it for the weather today! Oh, glorious reprieve!)

Anyway…over the past ten days or so a remarkable number of exciting shows have been announced and here are some more:

Plants and Animals - Polaris-Prize Nominees / artists who earned the #5 spot on my Top Ten Records Of The Year List (which is, arguably, just as good as a Polaris nom) - play the Park Theatre on March 24nd. Pending school, I’ll be there.

The creatively-named dd/mm/yyyy will be at The Albert on 23/02/2009.

According to The Park Theatre’s website The Gaslight Anthem will be here on April 5th; however, I can’t seem to find any corroborating evidence for this show, hence me typing the blame-deflecting “according to”. Until I find a second source, I won't put this on the right.

Senses Fail are at the Garrick on April 13th.

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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous18 January 2009 at 10:15

    what about great lake swimmers?
    i saw that they're in thunder bay on march 21 and regina on march 24 i think. i haven't seen or heard anything about a wpg. stop though. i'd like to see them again.

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  2. Mykael18 January 2009 at 15:56

    On their MySpace page under the comments section, their record label Weewerk wrote how they're playing an Instore performance here on March 23rd. That would be infinitely cool.

    I can't find any further confirmation though. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

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  3. BMS20 January 2009 at 14:42

    Animal Collective scheduled up to Minneapolis through the US and then about 4 days later in Vancouver... however, I feel this won't happen for Winnipeg. Maybe Calgary?

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