w/ Poor Little Rich Girl
Tickets: $10 advance/$15 door - Buy your tickets for this show here!
Tickets also available at The Bakery, Leo's Video, and Tweaked and Yummy Vintage Apparel
Doors at 8pm, show at 9pm
Free swag from The Bakery!

Today's music fan is a conundrum.

While they want instant gratification, they also expect lasting results. Yet with the diminishing returns so many flavour-of-the-month bands provide, most music has bred a lack of faith on the listener's part. The overall climate has shifted from blind support of artists to discerning, sometimes ruthless selectiveness. When faced with so many fleeting options, a band's package better be stunning or it's game over.

Goodbye Beatdown's Mark Luongo defines it as the Age Of The Compilation: a time when iPods have turned music collections into endless shuffling; a disparate showcase of preferred songs from various artists as opposed to completists hoarding albums and catalogues thin on hits/weighed down by filler.

With their diverse complexity propelled by straightforward groove, unyielding intent on getting your primal, pelvic essence oscillating and enjoying the ride, Goodbye Beatdown is the epitome of that compilation—in one solitary band.

But how do they do it?

"Fusion is key," declares Luongo, revealing how in an ephemeral year-and-a-half, this Vancouver-based quintet spawned from the ashes of previous endeavours has overtaken Canadian music. With their amalgam of rock, reggae and hip-hop that transforms the slinky virulence of Sublime with the unforgettable power of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and shapes it into a unique, irresistibly anthemic sound all unto itself, Goodbye Beatdown is incredibly intermixed.

"Our sound is the refined chemistry of the five musicians who craft it," he continues, revealing the group's precise alchemy. "None of us could write a Goodbye Beatdown song on our own. You can't remove any one element from the equation. We're a battle rapper-cum-vocalist whose lyrical wizardry and hook writing prowess set the stylistic tone, a seasoned DJ/arrangement guru who leads the ongoing negotiation between rock, reggae and hip hop and a guitar phenom who has explored everything from blues and country to heavy metal. We're also a bombastic metal drummer with lightning quick hands and punishing double kick chops who juggles reggae, ska and hip hop beats with matchless pizzazz and a funky-ass bass playing keyboardist who's versed in production and spent years studying classical and jazz forms."

Distilling that distinctive, contagiously primeval essence into a recording, Goodbye Beatdown issued their debut independent EP Whatchagwando late last year. Featuring lead track "The Grudge" mixed by legendary engineer Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Metallica, Bryan Adams), it's an effort that has commanded both critical and fan adulation for blending reggae with urban hip-hop and driving the whole ordeal via an underlying rock/pop motif. To that extent, one can see how Whatchagwando ties many divergent paths together, impelling virtually everyone to sway to the Goodbye Beatdown sound.

Poor Little Rich Girl:
"...the songs blew me away. Frankly, I thought you'd suck, as it seems more and more that anyone younger than me is basically retarded, but you are proving the exception."

In 1789, Antoine Lavoisier published a list of 33 chemical elements. Although Lavoisier grouped the elements into gases, metals, non-metals, and earths, chemists spent the following centuries searching for a more precise classification scheme. However, modern day chemists learned that Lavoisier’s mistake was not in his classification of the elements but his neglect for two basic elements PL and RG, which have only recently been acknowledged by the scientific community. Though there is only a rough Latin translation for the two chemicals Bella Lupa and Celebrus Puell, most chemists have come to know the inseparable elements as Poor Little Rich Girl. The debate over whether they are a legitimate substance has been hotly contested and experimented for years with little to no ground made. Only now has the scientific community and the rest of the world acknowledged the true place of PL and RG in the world thanks to the rigorous work of four young men. Cory Myraas, Cameron Lutz, Luke Mortensen and Rob Raybould make up Poor Little Rich Girl and together since late 2008 have made big waves in the Okanagan music community. After playing over 70 shows in 2009, PLRG parted ways with then lead guitarist Braeden Otter citing creative differences and took some time to find a suitable replacement. In February 2010, Luke rose to the challenge and thus the new Poor Little Rich Girl was born. With an infectious blend of hard-hitting hooks and danceable grooves, this quartet is set to shake up the community once again in 2010.

so come out to a show and introduce yourselves, we're friendly and love playing. we've got 2 EP's and some t-shirts you can purchase to help support us, and we're currently in the process of finishing up our first full-length. so stick around...