Fucked Up Presents…Long Winter Volume 5

      So the winter is winding down and with spring around the corner Fucked Up have decided to close it all out with a Volume 5 in their Long Winter series. Bands confirmed to play on the 23rd of March at The Great Hall in Toronto are: The Sadies / Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet / The Skeletones Four / Burning Love / Petra Glynt / Emma McKenna / Andre Ethier / Kool Thing / Elsa / + special guests TBA.

     As with the previous 4 LW happenings it's All Ages & PWYC (Pay What You Can) so end the winter off right and be there.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM 

Fucked Up Presents Long Winter Volume 4

     Don't miss the last in the Long Winter series taking place on February the 8^th (next Friday night) at The Great Hall in Toronto. As with the previous 3 there will be lots of great music, bands playing are:Fucked Up, Holy Fuck, The Sadies , Kids on TV, Maylee Todd, Rituals,Odonis Odonis and Tasseomancy.  

     And as before there is plenty more going on than just the music there's Film, Art, Dance (I heard that Yacht Club might even be playing) , Rave, Talk, Video Games and Food will be by  HOT MESS HALL.

   So here it is again….Friday February the 8^th at The Great Hall @ 1087 Queen St. W. in Toronto. It's All Ages   Pay What You Can   and it all begins at 8:00PM. 

Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Tonight: Fucked Up's Long Winter Vol 1

Tonight at The Great Hall in Toronto Fucked Up presents Long Winter Vol 1: Imposters

Music By

FUCKED UP
DIANA
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
WYRD VISIONS vs. BLACK WALLS
ONNO
CELL MEMORY AND CASTLE IF
PUDU FECK

Readings by Spencer Gordon (author of Cosmo) and Helen Guri (author of Match)

All Ages   Pay What You Can   8:00PM

The Great Hall 1087 Queen St. W.

Fucked Up and Sloan play Toronto Benefit shows

    Toronto's The Great Hall plays host to a couple of benefit shows on the 20^th and 21^st of this month. On the 20^th 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.

Joe Cornelisse-SSGS