Time: 7 p.m.
Cover: $10
WOWIE WHAT A DANG NIGHT! PAY 10$ AT THE START AND STAY FOR THE WHOLE THING!!!!
6:00-8:00- ARTIST TRADING CARDS II
(Entry by Donation)
Following the succsess of our first artist trading card night we're
bringing it back in style with more artsits, more trading cards and even
more pencils! Come get Spiced while the Spicing is good.
COVERS WILL BE COLLECTED HERE
8:00- CONNOR HD AND THE FLACS
Handsome crew with the tuneful airs comming at you loud and proud- now
with one new member! Can you guess who it is? (Hint: It's the handsomist
one)
9:00- THE STATISTICS
Darby and Erin Yule had worked too long and hard at building their
presence in music to give up when their first band – Lost Cause 34 –
expired as they got to the end of high school.
“We’ve heard a lot
that it’s impossible to make a career out of something artistic and
creative. The joke we made was, we weren’t going to rock ‘n’ roll
statistics, so that’s what we decided to call ourselves,” said Erin.
Maybe it was because it was aggressive, young and simple that they
gravitated to punk sounds. There was plenty of it around. They had Blink
182, Jimmy Eat World, Billy Talent and Headstones to look up to, back
then. They also lived in a city at the crossroads of a lot of styles,
cultures and geography. Prince George frequently hosted shows by
alternative greats like Bif Naked, Gob, Big Sugar and other notable
heavies of the day. And the Yule boys also had local guitarist/vocalist
Dave Rosin in town just before he struck big as a member of Hedley.
Their table was set for feasting on alterna-rock music.
They
became The Statistics and changed their equation. The sums have been
impressive. First they released the album The Boy Who Would Be King in
2012 to kick things off. That got Erin and Darby some live shows, web
attention, and media coverage – all of it positive about their new life
as The Statistics.
Also, it confirmed they were on a solid path in
the direction they wanted to go as a duo (they bring in other musicians
as the songs see fit). It pointed them towards a hometown university
show with Malcolm In the Middle lead actor Frankie Muniz’s band
Kingsfoil, then a slot on the Crankworx (big-air bike showcase) stage in
Whistler with Bend Sinister, and their first regional tour alongside
Yukon prog-rockers Speed Control and opening slots for IllScarlet. They
picked up gigs at coveted out-of-town nightspots like The Cellar and The
Railway Club.
The success was based on the popular album, but came
to life on the stage. Sensing a concert audience starting to build,
they released Do You Bleed Like I Do?, a semi-acoustic live album. That
propelled them from 2013 into a timeframe of periodic performances, a
brief residency in Vancouver to deepen their base, and all the while
writing new material.
That new stuff wasn’t going to be wasted on a
half-baked production effort, Darby and Erin decided. They pooled their
band funds and booked FaderMountain Sound (formerly the famed Little
Mountain Sound music house) co-owned by super-producers GGGarth
Richardson and Paul Boechler, among others.
The Statistics called in Boechler himself (Yukon Blonde, Raised By Wolves, etc.) to sit at the controls.
They wanted to keep their jangly punk edge, but slip comfortably into
some Brit-pop threads and build a bed of analogue warmth around it all.
The result is Haunts, a six-song EP that punches well above its weight.
“The reason we went to all this effort and expense is because music
matters so much to us,” said Erin. “We could just keep it all in the
basement and have our fun, but the whole point of music is sharing it
with other people, and if you’re going to invite people to listen, you’d
better give them your very best.”
“I can’t describe what it feels
like when someone comes up and tells us they like a certain part of a
song,” said Darby. “I must look like a weirdo, because I just melt. We
are so grateful to get that feedback. For us, those are the triumphant
moments and the reasons we try so hard for people.”