This Is Spinal Tap screens at the Rio
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY: Vancouver indie-rock band Dog Gone plays the WISE Hall, with guests the Zozzled Hepcats, Big Day, and Caught Feelings.
FRIDAY: the third annual Good Stank Stampede at Green Auto features performances by country-rock acts Skinny Dyck, Chase Coulee, and Johnny Wakeham.
FRIDAY: Vancouver guitar-rock legends 54-40, featuring founding vocalist Neil Osborne, play a free show at the Whistler Olympic Plaza. Here’s my interview with Neil Osborne from 2000.
Tom Morello plays the Commodore
FRIDAY: American guitarist and political activist Tom Morello, best known for his work with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, plays the second of two nights at the Commodore Ballroom. Here’s my interview with Tom Morello from 2011.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: the Arts Club Theatre Company presents performances at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage until August 3 of the musical comedy Waitress, about a small-town waitress and expert pie-maker who dreams of a new life outside of her tumultuous marriage.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: Playland features midway games, mini-golf, a climbing wall, haunted mansion, food concessions, and over 35 rides and attractions, including the iconic wooden rollercoaster. Playland runs until August 15 on the PNE Grounds, then becomes part of admission to the PNE Fair.
How Did This Get Made? Live is at the Vogue
SATURDAY: How Did This Get Made? Live at the Vogue Theatre is a comedy podcast featuring Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas, and June Diane Raphael that takes a deep dive into cinematic absurdity. Note: moved from original venue of Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
SATURDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of a restored, remastered, and remixed (it now goes to 11) version of This Is Spinal Tap, director Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary about a legendary British heavy-metal band attempting an American comeback tour.
SATURDAY: American prog-metal band Queensrÿche, featuring original guitarist Michael Wilton and bassist Eddie Jackson, plays the Great Canadian Casino Vancouver.
Oldboy screens at VIFF Centre
SATURDAY: screening at VIFF Centre of Oldboy, director Park Chan-wook’s shocking 2003 revenge thriller about a man inexplicably held captive by unknown persons for 15 years, and then, just as inexplicably, released. In Korean with English subtitles.
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