w/ The Pack A.D.
$15 (+$1.50 tx & sc) Buy your tickets for this show here!
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm

The Sadies are at home on any stage they’re on, with a typical show lasting 35 to 40 songs, give or take five or ten. The band’s almost careless stage presence -- with the Good brothers looming in their tailored, embroidered suits -- and reckless punk energy make the songs fly by. Or maybe it’s the way they can stop and start on a dime, going from a cover of Johnny Paycheck’s “I’ve Got Someone to Kill” (which they recorded with R&B legend Andre Williams) to a stunning original rich with guitar textures and gorgeous vocal harmonies, all delivered with the casual ease of lighting another cigarette. With New Seasons, the Sadies have delivered an album where the songs and the vocal performances come first. If you’ve ever seen the Sadies, you already know they can all play their asses off anyway...

The Sadies most recent collaboration will be released on April 14th on the Outside Music label. Country Club sees Canada’s hardest working band team up with John Doe (X, Knitters) for an album of classic country covers with tunes by Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings and late-night ballads by Tammy Wynette and Roger Miller. The album also features four originals - three from The Sadies and one courtesy of X songwriting duo John Doe and Exene Cervenka. By including songs from varying movements within the country music pantheon, Doe and The Sadies were able to cover their heroes while filtering the pop sensibilities of 60s Nashville through the electric honky tonk of Bakersfield, CA. The album is driven by Doe’s singular vocals, the dueling thousand pound chops of the guitar-wielding Good brothers and The Sadies’ world class rhythm section of Mike Belitsky and Sean Dean. The album also plays host to a number of guest appearances from the likes of Kathleen Edwards, Bob Eagan as well and Bruce and Margaret Good. “Country Club is the result of a drunken promise or threat I made to Travis & Dallas [Good, of The Sadies] the first night we played together in Toronto. These happen all the time but it's rare that anyone remembers them the morning after, let alone follows through and makes it a reality. I'm really glad we did,” chuckles John Doe about the series of events that led to this new project.

The only band on MINT Records to blow the roof off of the Crossroads. In their dreams. The Pack AD is a no-holds barred garage-rock-blues cage match played out between two dynamic young women from East Van. — the East side of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, where the likelihood of graduating into a criminal record is more likely than the honour roll — is where all the good bands in town come from or live in. There are a lot of gas stations there.

Lead growler/guitarist Becky Black used to sling high octane and smokes in one when she wasn’t at home trying to find new ways to wring pure hellfire and riff-stone from her six-string. She met drummer Maya Miller in one such nameless self-serve. They got to rapping and realized they liked each other’s styles better than slinging gas and whatever Maya’s job was (she won’t tell; but sources suggest it involved a phone centre and cruises). So, they sloughed on their leather jackets and gear and got down to making the music they wanted.

The debut CD, Tintype, got lips smacking about the group grinding out the sort of noise that made boys cry and girls hot and, well, sold freakin’ beers. The follow-up, Funeral Mixtape, got the group reviews in every major music press that there is. Aside from a few critics who long ago decided that there could only be one loud, awesome killer duo allowed to make it at one time, the rest admitted the new disc kicks ass. And it does it with blues, punk, grind, thrash and that deep swagger baby.

When these two let rip, they let rip. The sudden acceleration from 0 to 100 faster than one, two, three, four chords has left many a South By Southwest barbecue and nightclub collecting their jaws from the floor. It just doesn’t seem like such dark and stormy grooves could come from two such unassuming everywomen. Guess again.

From the Far North to South America and some really excellent benders through the EU, they pack ‘em to the front of the stage when they kick into a groove. Don’t miss this band when they roar into your town. Hint: Keep this music-making machine in steady brew and it will bring you much sonic love.