Toronto's The
Great Hall plays host to a couple of benefit shows on the 20th and
21st of this month. On the 20th Toronto's own Fucked Up
will play all 78 minutes of their critically acclaimed punk rock opera David Comes To Life as a benefit concert
for the COUNTERfit's drug user's memorial project and The Barriere Lake Legal
Defense Fund. The Sadies, PS I Love You and Quest for Fire are also on the bill
that night…Do not miss this killer show.
Then the
following night Fucked Up present (They are NOT playing that night) a second benefit
concert featuring Sloan, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Ohbijou and Bonjay. Sloan
have announced they are going to be playing the full One Chord to Another
record, now that is one show you will not want to miss (I saw Sloan this summer
and they are as good if not even better than when they started 20 years ago).
Tickets are $20 for both evenings and are now on sale at
Fucked Up's
webstore. Both shows take place at The Great Hall (1087 Queen
Street West) and are all ages events with doors opening at 7 p.m. Tickets are
also available at Rotate This (801 Queen St. W.) and Soundscapes (572 College
St.) in Toronto.
At the shows you
will be able to pick up a split 7" of Fucked Up and Sloan. Fucked Up cover "Jingle
Bells" and Sloan cover the Christmas classic "12 Days of
Christmas"…Sloan's version is already available here
There will also be an After Party...here is the flyer with all of the info:
Below are descriptions of the two charities that will
benefit from these two shows:
COUNTERfit's drug user's memorial project was established to
acknowledge the high number of drug user deaths due to the drug war. The
project will create a permanent outdoor monument to remember and celebrate the
lives of drug users who have died in our community. It also aims to strengthen
our resolve to end the drug war and the devastating impacts on our friends and
family members.
The Barriere Lake Legal Defense Fund was set up to support
The Algonquins of Barriere Lake, a small First Nations community in Quebec.
They have been forced into a costly legal battle with Canada to protect their
land rights. The community has been fighting for years to ensure Canada and
Quebec honour their Trilateral Agreement, a landmark resource co-management
agreement signed in 1991. The governments are determined to quash the agreement
and are now trying to seize sensitive community documents supporting the fight
for the Trilateral Agreement. These documents include research on traditional
land use & occupancy, wildlife habitat studies, and land claims research.
Everyone does their year-end music lists but instead of
boring you to tears with dissecting every record to death I thought I'd just
mention a few records that came out in 2012 that moved me enough to give a
second or third spin (sometimes even a fourth)…so here we go
