CBC Open House 2010

The CBC held it's second annual Open House on the 3rd and I spent what felt an entire day there and had a BLAST.

If you want to see a ton of photos from the day, click here to check out the post on VIA!

Below is a shot of me competing against Tyler from Said The Whale in a trivia contest on Lana Gay's show on Radio 3:


(Thanks to Matt Kelly for the photo)

Peak Performance Project Finale!

There are few words that I can say about the Peak Performance Project finale...it was a spectacular night and I'm very happy for my friends.

Check the photos on Vancouver Is Awesome.

Adventures In Solitude

The wonderful Grant Lawrence finally launched his book Adventures In Solitude on October 7th at the Museum of Vancouver.
I managed to sneak some video as well of Grant reading, and Jill Barber/Said The Whale playing...check them out below.

Jasper as Performed by The Malahat Revue

The Malahat Revue

So the CBC started doing this cool thing called Musical Nooners, where they get a band to play outside the Ceeb on the stage for an hour during weekdays...

The first one? Said The Whale, Hannah Georgas, Jeremy Fisher and Aidan Knight as The Malahat Revue before they began their bike tour to Vancouver Island.

NXNE

Another month, another event happening in Toronto that I wish I could attend. (These are the reasons that Toronto is calling my name again...)

North by North East is an awesome music festival that stretches over a few glorious days in June. It's a festival where I saw some of my good friends play for the first time...Hey Ocean, Dan Mangan, Lotus Child, Hollerado. I distinctly remember walking down Queen Street with Ashleigh Ball, and sitting on the floor of The Hideout listening to Dan Mangan sing his MySpace song.

Anyways...MANY of my new friends are playing in the city and I've put together a list of their set times if you are reading this in Toronto and want to check them out.

Oh and below that is a screen shot of the NXNE page for Rah Rah with my breaking hearts photo...

Hollerado:
16th Mod Club 8pm
18th HRCafe midnight
19th CN Tower 8pm
http://www.myspace.com/Hollerado

Said The Whale:
18th Yonge & Dundas Square 7:30pm
http://www.myspace.com/saidthewhale

Jody Glenham
17th Cameron House midnight
http://www.myspace.com/jodyglenham

Library Voices
19th horseshoe 9pm
http://www.myspace.com/thelibraryvoices

Maurice
19th Gladstone 8pm
http://www.myspace.com/wearemaurice

Rah Rah
18th Bread & Circus midnight
20th El Mo 11pm
http://www.myspace.com/rahrahband

The Mountains & The Trees
17th Gladstone 9pm
http://www.myspace.com/themountainsandthetrees

The Zolas
19th Gladstone - 10pm
http://www.myspace.com/thezolas

We Are The City
18 Rancho Relaxo 11pm
http://www.myspace.com/thecitiesmusic

One Night Stand II

For a second year in a row some of Vancouver's best came together on New Years Eve to play some covers, drink some booze and have a ton of fun.

I was asked to set up a photo booth for the evening, which ended up being a source of great amusement and hilarious photos.


It was truly a amazing night (I even played cowbell/tambourine for a few songs, and sang Hey Jude with the ensemble on stage at the end of the night).

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT ALL THE PHOTOS

and for kicks, here's the video that I shot of the band/ladies covering M.I.A.'s Paper Planes:

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:

Islands Disappear

My lovely friends Said The Whale had their Vancouver CD Release Show this week at St. James Hall, complete with Hannah "Gorgeous" Georgas opening for them.

It was an excellent show with many friends and family and some of the Vancouver music scene elite...

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL OF THE PHOTOS!










CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL OF THE PHOTOS!

Dan Mangan Live @ The Cultch - Videos

"Robots"


"So Much For Everyone"


"Et Les Mots Croises"

What Darlings, The O'Darling...

Busy busy busy for a Sunday evening in Vancouver.

First I headed to the Railway to see Matt Epp perform again. He was just as great as the night before and I'm glad I went! Had to miss
Ann Vriend to jump over to the Media Club for show #2...




By the time I got there I had missed Benny Schütze, Said The Whale, Aidan Knight and only caught the last song by Hey Ocean!... From what I hear it was a free-for-all of Vancouver's indie music scene. Dan Mangan was in the crowd and got called on stage, performed two songs and then it was on to the main act...
The O'Darling.

They are a pretty amazing band...apparently originally from Victoria, but based in Toronto now. They had the entire crowd on their feet, many of them dancing. Aidan joined them on stage for a few songs too. I'm excited to see him perform at Dan's CD Release show on Friday. By the end of the evening most everyone's facebook and twitter statuses changed to praise for the band and the evening.
Here are some shots from the love-fest at the Media Club:

The Grassy Knoll Under The Wooden Sky...

After a very close game of softball, Mr. Tyler Bancroft was kind enough to drive a few of us over to John Rogers Park in Vancouver, where The Wooden Sky was playing to a crowd perched on the hillside.

I saw these guys in Toronto a few years ago, but sitting watching the sun go down with 100 other people, kids on the swings, dogs and bikes everywhere while the band played, was pretty amazing.

And on top of that they were joined for a few songs by the glorious Debra Jean Creelman!

Here are a few of my shots: