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Toque plays Great Canadian Casino
By Steve Newton
FRIDAY: Victoria roots troubadour Leeroy Stagger performs material from his latest album 3 AM Revelations at Langley’s Bez Arts Hub. Here’s my interview with Leeroy Stagger from 2005.
FRIDAY: Vancouver ska-rock band from the ’90s, Jazzberry Ram, plays the Fox Cabaret, with guests Focus Your Audio and Scarlet Fever.
FRIDAY: Vancouver indie-rock/shoegaze quartet the Starling Effect, featuring guitarist-vocalist John “Coolhand” Lucas, plays LanaLou’s, with guests Combine the Victorious and Asterous.
Taylor Tomlinson performs at the Queen E
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: American comedian Taylor Tomlinson performs four standup-comedy shows at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY: Star Witnesses, running at the Polygon Gallery until September 28, assembles works by 11 artists whose observations of the cosmos bring new understandings of exploratory and migratory movements on Planet Earth.
FRIDAY & SUNDAY: screenings at the Cinematheque of Face/Off director John Woo‘s 1992 action-thriller Hard Boiled, starring Chow Yun-fat as a vengeful Hong Kong cop on the trail of a vicious gangster.
Slightest Clue plays the Rickshaw
SATURDAY: Vancouver alt-rock quartet Slightest Clue performs its farewell show at the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests daysormay from Vernon and Computer.
SATURDAY: Canadian classic-rock tribute band Toque, featuring singer-bassist Todd Kerns, plays the Great Canadian Casino Vancouver, with guests Freeze the Fall. Here’s my interview with Todd Kerns from 2016.
SATURDAY: Gangsta rapper-turned-Hollywood actor Ice Cube performs material from new album Man Up on his Truth to Power: 4 Decades of Attitude Tour at the Pacific Coliseum.
UB40 plays the Commodore
SUNDAY: British reggae-pop band UB40, featuring original guitarist-vocalist Robin Campbell, performs at the Commodore Ballroom on its Relentless Tour. Here’s my interview with Robin Campbell from 1984.
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