Tickets $12.00 S/C, on sale SEPTEMBER 16 at 10 AM available online at PrimeBoxOffice.com and UnionEvents.com, & at Prime Box Office (Room 220, MacEwan Student Centre, 2500 University Drive) and Sloth Records
Come spend Thanksgiving Sunday at the Republik with some of Vancouver’s finest bands. Sled Island Music and Arts Festival and The Republik Nightclub present Lightning Dust with Hard Drugs and Calgary’s own Reuben Bullock.
Lightning Dust and Hard Drugs are also celebrating a split seven inch together which they are releasing on October 4th on the Storyboard label. The release is limited to 550 copies pressed on white vinyl.
After having just played the Calgary Folk Festival this summer, Lightning Dust returns to Calgary. The band is comprised of Amber Webber and Joshua Wells who have been playing together for many years as part of Black Mountain. They've toured the world and have played impenetrable space-rock to the unlikeliest of audiences. With an abundance of creative energy to spare, the two decided to start a separate project together, that they named Lightning Dust.
Committing themselves to a more simplistic approach with Lightning Dust, Webber and Wells also decided to escape the com-forts of their familiar instruments and writing styles. On their self-titled debut, minimal and spacious arrangements and a moody, theatrical vocal-style aptly expose the demons, creating songs that creep into your bones with a haunting chill.
Hard Drugs is a East-Vancouver based band made up of husband and wife duo Jeffrey and Jenni. Some describe Hard Drugs as an indie rock opera that trusts in spectacular songs rather than an elaborate stage production to tell a twisted love story that could only happen in Terminal City. They released a 13-song double LP showcasing an orchestral mix of roots, rock, punk, savvy per-cussion and heartbreaking harmonies conceived by Jeffry Lee and executed with help from a cache of his talented friends.
