Knights of the Round Table...

There were no knights and there were about 10 small individual round tables to sit around, but the job still got done... Backstage Vancouver held the first of many to come music round tables to discuss the Vancouver music scene at The Railway Club last night.

I went to it to cover the discussion for Vancouver Is Awesome and Lauren from Backstage Vancouver.

It was a pretty interesting discussion...to read more check out the VIA! post.

Be My Television!

The Racoons! At Fortune! In Vancouver! I was there! It was excellent:

(The last photo is while they were covering the Von Bondies!)

Knight-Timing

(oh puns. I blame you Dan Mangan...)

The overly talented, and all around nice guy, Aidan Knight had his (self-proclaimed) first real Vancouver show, and it was not by any means, a small one:
Opening up for Patrick Watson at the 1000+ seat Vogue Theater in Vancouver.

The reception he received was incredible and you could even hear people singing along to Jasper, which he closed his set with.

You'll see Aidan on my blog a lot in the next little while, as he has 2 more shows in Vancouver this week! In the meantime listen to Aidan...right now!

Here are some shots, but to see more of Aidan and Patrick Watson go here: www.mcavoy.ca/theVogue

Lovely Laura

I went to the Biltmore to see my wonderfully talented friend Laura Smith play, and was treated to a great evening of music and friends.

In addition to Laura, I managed to finally see Elias play live (complete with Adaline cameo!) and Bodhi Jones for the first time after being solicited for Peak Performance votes.

Some of the best of Vancouver's music scene were there too (Hannah Georgas, JP Maurice, James Lamb, Josh McNorton, to name drop a few).

I had a wonderful time and here are some photos of that evening:

Next To Enter The Ring: "Ladies Choice"

Six words I never thought I'd say?
"I'm going to see wrestling tonight.."
And it turned out to be quite an enjoyable affair...thinking of pitching it to VanMag...see for yourself:


(Happy Birthday Peter!)

A Day At The Ceeb

On the 4th of December (which is actually my mom's birthday! Happy Birthday Mum!) I spent ...around 6 hours at the newly renovated CBC Vancouver building, which they opened up to the public for a day!

The main goal of the day was to (at the prompting of Sas) find, and have my photo taken with, Ian Hanomansing(h). In addition to this I spent a lot of my time in the Radio 3 studio broadcast, watching Said The Whale and Hannah Georgas perform live to air, and to the visitors to the building.

I also finally met up with Bob from VancouverIsAwesome.com as he was being interviewed for Grant Lawrence's show.

It was a pretty awesome day/a total geek out looking behind the scenes and meeting some great people (plus Chris Kelly got me my R3 t-shirt and touque!)
All of the photos from the day can be found here: www.mcavoy.ca/CBCOpenHouse ... and here are a few of my favs:

So Pretty It Hurts Your Stomach

Robson Square, Vancouver