After attending the latest Vancouver Band Alliance Showcase at Charts weve decided to finally give a rundown of the events of that day as well as the previous one. The first showcase on Nov. 19th included performances by: FMTA, Dreams of Treason, Willy B. Sober, Amish Warfare, LTG, The Julie Roman Project, The POGs, The Remedials and Denderah. Gabe of The Remedials showed up first so he could check out all the bands, Lionel of The Remedials showed up soon after since Gabe was denied off sales from The Legion and kept pestering him to show up with beer. All the bands (even The Remedials) had great performances especially FMTA whose singer ended up rolling on the Charts floor, since we jam there we know that you dont even wanna stand on that floor even with your shoes on. With The Remedials set to play around 4pm or so, we got a call around 12:30pm from Wayne of The Remedials who had already been hitting the Wisers. About an hour after that we got a call from his girl that Wayne was passed out in her moms car. After repeated calls to Wayne he finally woke up, answered the phone and staggered to Charts. The Remedials played their set to a packed room at Charts and the whole thing was filmed and can be seen on Episode 6 of A New Rock Reality.
The latest showcase on Jan. 7th included: Amish Warfare, Marianne Baker, Hector, FMTA, the POGs, Keep It Secret, and Denderah. Since The Remedials didnt have to play they could sit back and have a few beers well maybe more than a few and enjoy the show and hang with the rest of the bands. After chatting with Art and Chad from Charts who are still convinced Gabe of The Remedials is the star of A New Rock Reality show. It was off to get a beer, help lug a new drum set upstairs and set up the sound and cameras.
Amish Warfare were on first and after their set was done asked Gabe of The Remedials to take some pictures of them for their press kit which theyre sending to EMI Canada at their request! After about 5 minutes of having to explain to him how to use a digital camera the pictures were done and Amish Warfare were off to put their press kit together. Fingers crossed those pictures worked out. Next up was an acoustic set by Marianne Baker, whose song Booty Call had all the boys thankful they were sitting down for her performance and all needed to take a cold shower after. She chatted about being an iTunes darling (her songs are showcased on the site), touring across the country and that she was ovulating. The dynamic duo of Hector was next, The Remedials were totally impressed with what they able to do with a Death From Above 1979 set up and an iPod and their songs were outta sight too! This also gave Gabe the idea of just having all The Remedials songs on an iPod and just lip-syncing for all our shows so we could just concentrate on drinking were still looking into this as an option. This seems like a great idea since after Hector finished Scott of The Weedies gave them and Marianne Baker a play-by-play of The Remedials infamous New Years Eve set. Although we did get props from Dreams of Treason, Amish Warfare, the POGS and Denderah about the show and to which we are like please dont encourage us! The next band was FMTA who did a rad job again this time around those guys never disappoint! Up next were the POGs who played a high-energy show as a three-piece! Gabe from The Remedials and Kwin from Denderah joined in on the chorus of The Ramones cover The Crusher. Be sure to check out the POGs this Thursday Jan. 12th at The Pic Pub in which Gabe will jump on stage and join em for The Crusher! After them was Keep It Secret a band who has one of the best drummers The Remedials have ever seen (except for of course Lionel) and they did a stellar job! Gabe was asked to help film their set for some strange reason. The last band of the night was Denderah we cant say enough good things about these guys (although they have plenty of dirt on The Remedials) since wed take a bullet for em! Kwin had to play an Ibanez guitar since he smashed the red Fender Mustang the night before. Scott of The Weedies was able to stop him from smashing it on New Years Eve but Gabe was too drunk to stop him at The Pub 340 show which he still regrets cuz its a beautiful guitar. They pulled out all stops and The Remedials are totally looking forward to Denderahs house party at the end of the month!
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