Dustin Bentall skippers our very own Town Pants through a fun, raucous set close with a go on Fishermans Blues the night of the June fundraiser. Thanks again Dustin for coming out that night and your support!
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Showing posts with label The Town Pants. Show all posts
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25 July 2011
12 July 2011
"Brash and No Hold Barred" :: San Diego Troubadour reviews The Town Pants
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The Town Pants now on tour throughout the US!
14 June 2011
Town Pants Fundraiser This Saturday June 18
Tickets available at:
Zulu Records (1972 West 4th Avenue),
Highlife Records (1317 Commercial Drive)
RedCat Records (4332 Main Street)
Eternal Salon (142 West 3rd ave, N.Vancouver, Wed-Sat, 604-649-8540)
and of course The Forum (1163 Granville Street)
$15 Advance
$20 Door
For you out of towners who might like to be there in spirit by making a donation (not matter how big or small) here's a link. 100% of proceeds go towards replacing our equipment that was recently stolen.
Zulu Records (1972 West 4th Avenue),
Highlife Records (1317 Commercial Drive)
RedCat Records (4332 Main Street)
Eternal Salon (142 West 3rd ave, N.Vancouver, Wed-Sat, 604-649-8540)
and of course The Forum (1163 Granville Street)
$15 Advance
$20 Door
For you out of towners who might like to be there in spirit by making a donation (not matter how big or small) here's a link. 100% of proceeds go towards replacing our equipment that was recently stolen.
09 June 2011
"Go get this album and enjoy it" - Fanrealm.com Reviews Shore Leave by The Town Pants
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Shore leave is what happens when sailors put into port and got out to party. This is a party album for sure. Drinking in the Graveyard is, hands down, the best ghost story I’ve ever heard. Death Feels Like Me Today is about a place we can probably all recognize. Songs about hard drinking sailors and actors are joined by a song about their hometown called Rainville, a lovelorn ballad called Angel and a celt rock version of Iron Maiden’s Run for the Hills. Trains Not Taken is based on the short story by Joe R Lansdale.
This album takes you out of your here and now and sends you on your own shore leave. It’s a lot of fun and great music. You’ll be singing along with this one. I really liked every song on this album but the idea of drinking in a graveyard with famous authors, inventors, actors and explorers is such a delicious idea that this one has to be my favorite although Trains Not Taken is a very close second.
You’ve absolutely earned your shore leave. Go get this album and enjoy it!
This album takes you out of your here and now and sends you on your own shore leave. It’s a lot of fun and great music. You’ll be singing along with this one. I really liked every song on this album but the idea of drinking in a graveyard with famous authors, inventors, actors and explorers is such a delicious idea that this one has to be my favorite although Trains Not Taken is a very close second.
You’ve absolutely earned your shore leave. Go get this album and enjoy it!
05 May 2011
"Incandescent!" - FAME reviews Shore Leave by The Town Pants
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They meld an Elizabethan Anglo folk feeling into their Irish wont, then infuse a generous rock element for a result that makes you want to dance, shout, drink, laugh, love, and think...but mostly raise a grinning ruckus.
The lads know their instruments well, and Kyle Taylor is a demon on the fiddle, but when everyone kicks into overdrive, which they do many times, the melee turns incandescent. Ah, but here's a kick an' a half fer ya: they cover speed metal gods Iron Maiden'sRun for the Hills in a cloverfield rendition!! Yee-haw, but that there's my kinda eclecticism, Seamus!
The lads know their instruments well, and Kyle Taylor is a demon on the fiddle, but when everyone kicks into overdrive, which they do many times, the melee turns incandescent. Ah, but here's a kick an' a half fer ya: they cover speed metal gods Iron Maiden'sRun for the Hills in a cloverfield rendition!! Yee-haw, but that there's my kinda eclecticism, Seamus!
Bawdy, ribald, maverick, and as talented as any three other such bands, the Pants have worked through four previous CDs to arrive at this festive, arse shakin', effervescent collection of serially inspiring earthy songs fraught with passion, cynicism, iconoclasm, and, well, you know the Irish: we loves us our liquor we does and thus never forgets the raising of the wrist, y'all.
Trains not Taken has the hip ring of Sniff 'N The Tears as well, polished and urban-hip but underscored with a timeless knowingness that chooses to remain mortal and in the blood of life…but dancing through it all despite. And if you've ever had a night where you woke up and drank 'a hot mug of butter / And spread some coffee on [your] toast', then you know precisely where these lads hail from and have sufficient cause to sing along with them that Death Feels Like Me Today. I've certainly been there and wish I'd'a had this disc for the morning after pick-me-up; I would've been dancing a jig instead of swearing for the 9,458th time that I'd never do that again…just before returning to the scene of the crime and ordering another pint, hoping that The Town Pants would be in again in the evening to heat up the pub on a chill night.
A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
by Mark S. Tucker
(progdawg@hotmail.com).
Trains not Taken has the hip ring of Sniff 'N The Tears as well, polished and urban-hip but underscored with a timeless knowingness that chooses to remain mortal and in the blood of life…but dancing through it all despite. And if you've ever had a night where you woke up and drank 'a hot mug of butter / And spread some coffee on [your] toast', then you know precisely where these lads hail from and have sufficient cause to sing along with them that Death Feels Like Me Today. I've certainly been there and wish I'd'a had this disc for the morning after pick-me-up; I would've been dancing a jig instead of swearing for the 9,458th time that I'd never do that again…just before returning to the scene of the crime and ordering another pint, hoping that The Town Pants would be in again in the evening to heat up the pub on a chill night.
A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange
by Mark S. Tucker
(progdawg@hotmail.com).
05 April 2011
The Town Pants Live on Urban Rush
13 March 2011
04 March 2011
North Shore News Interviews The Town Pants
| CD | Digital | Photo by Adam PW Smith |
The Town Pants are booked for a few pre-St. Patrick’s Day shows in the United States before returning home for a March 18 gig at the Commodore Ballroom.
When brothers Duane and Dave Keogh and Aaron Chapman started strumming Celtic melodies across the North Shore, they knew they had a winner -- partly because the band was named after one. (read more...)
To win two tickets to the show and a Town Pants CD library enter contest at www.nsnews.com/entertainment.
18 February 2011
You definitely need to check this band out
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“Drinking in The Graveyard” by The Town Pants. I had a difficult time picking a favourite track from Shore Leave, the new CD by Vancouver’s Celtic roots rock rebels. This accomplished fifth album is just such a lively and lyrical treat from start to finish. If you’re an old-time Spirt of the West fan like me, you definitely need to check this band out. Great stuff.
Grant McKenzie | Monday Magazine
13 February 2011
CD Review: The Town Pants | The Argosy
Their latest release, Shore Leave, is upbeat and stylistically varied, surprisingly so for a folk repertoire. They have a sound very similar to Mumford and Sons, especially the second track, ‘trains not taken’.
They show maturity in their songwriting in ‘coming home’, a nostalgic ballad about reuniting with friends and family – my favourite song on this gem of an album. With lyrics like ‘a thousand days behind me, and a thousand miles to go’ paired with uplifting string melody, this song basks the listener in optimism. You should check out the last track ‘run to the hills’!
08 February 2011
CD Review: The Town Pants | The Uniter: Winnipeg's Weekly Urban Journal
THE TOWN PANTS
Shore Leave
Label: Maximum Music
4 out of 5 stars
Now this is something that I am down for. The Town Pants have created their own division of Celtic that lends itself to an audience somewhere in between the heavy drinkers and the soft rockers. Shore Leave is an album of 10 bumping songs that lay the drums on thick, throwing in some banjo, fiddle, tin whistle, bass and guitar. Their energy soars even in slow tunes like Angel and skyrockets in upbeat tracks like Drinking In The Graveyard. Each track is inventive, the percussion and other varying musical instruments fit perfectly together, stylishly and with a great rhythm...the album spills over with character.
Label: Maximum Music
4 out of 5 stars
Now this is something that I am down for. The Town Pants have created their own division of Celtic that lends itself to an audience somewhere in between the heavy drinkers and the soft rockers. Shore Leave is an album of 10 bumping songs that lay the drums on thick, throwing in some banjo, fiddle, tin whistle, bass and guitar. Their energy soars even in slow tunes like Angel and skyrockets in upbeat tracks like Drinking In The Graveyard. Each track is inventive, the percussion and other varying musical instruments fit perfectly together, stylishly and with a great rhythm...the album spills over with character.
By Sara Shyiak
13 December 2010
Greg Potter and TV Week Magazine weigh in on Shore Leave by The Town Pants
Local lads lead rowdy, rousing, boozy Celtic folk-rock that calls for reeling and singalongs. Elements of American folk-rock ("Trains Not Taken") open up the genre and disparage façile Pogues comparisons. Performances are visceral, the harmonies are full-throated...making this instantly accessible and thoroughly enjoyable. 4 Stars!
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02 November 2010
New Town Pants Album Out Today
Maximum Music Group and EMI Music Canada are proud to release Shore Leave the new album from Celtic-roots-rock rebels The Town Pants.
Now in stores across Canada Shore Leave is also available at EMIMusic.ca, iTunes and wherever else you buy your music online.
This Vancouver-based band combines aspects of Irish traditional, acoustic pop, roots Americana, even Australian and Mexican influences, to create their own unique brand of West Coast Celtic. With a decade's worth of headlining roots and folk festivals, to selling out nights at rock venues, Maximum/EMI recording artists The Town Pants own brand of “Celtic roots rock rebel” spans five albums so far, and is backed up with and a legendary live show that’s garnered them fans internationally from Ottawa to Oslo.
The Town Pants features the dual lead vocals of brothers Duane and Dave Keogh on guitar and banjo, respectively, tin whistle virtuoso Aaron Chapman, Ivanka Watkin on fiddle, bassist John Senchuck and drummer Gilles Nadon. Rarely does a band have this combination of passion, energy animation and spirit that all makes for some of the most imaginative songwriting by some seriously talented players that you’ll find in the genre.
With Shore Leave, The Town Pants delivers their best yet, not just standard Celt-rock anthems for drinkers and thinkers, they raise the bar both lyrically and musically on the Celtic rock oeuvre. The Town Pants have never sounded both wilder and more mature.
Shore Leave features guest appearances by Spirit of the West's Geoffrey Kelly, 54-40's David Osborne, acclaimed indie artist Ford Pier and multi-instrumentalist Meghan Engel.
:: Reviews
Sublime harmonies, kind of like a Celtic Everly Brothers :: TimesUnion.com
You don't need a town crier to tell you the Town Pants are something special. All you need is a dose of their gleeful, energetic live show, a blend of infectious, Celtic-inspired rock that's heavy on tin whistles, fiddle, and banjo with healthy shots of off-the-cuff banter between band mates; but the primary reason Town Pants shine so brightly -- stellar musicianship. This band soars! :: GoErie.com
The average Town Pants concert is an exploding bonzo of fuckdrunken insanity. A group of seriously killer players! :: Georgia Straight
The Town Pants features the dual lead vocals of brothers Duane and Dave Keogh on guitar and banjo, respectively, tin whistle virtuoso Aaron Chapman, Ivanka Watkin on fiddle, bassist John Senchuck and drummer Gilles Nadon. Rarely does a band have this combination of passion, energy animation and spirit that all makes for some of the most imaginative songwriting by some seriously talented players that you’ll find in the genre.
With Shore Leave, The Town Pants delivers their best yet, not just standard Celt-rock anthems for drinkers and thinkers, they raise the bar both lyrically and musically on the Celtic rock oeuvre. The Town Pants have never sounded both wilder and more mature.
Shore Leave features guest appearances by Spirit of the West's Geoffrey Kelly, 54-40's David Osborne, acclaimed indie artist Ford Pier and multi-instrumentalist Meghan Engel.
:: Reviews
Sublime harmonies, kind of like a Celtic Everly Brothers :: TimesUnion.com
You don't need a town crier to tell you the Town Pants are something special. All you need is a dose of their gleeful, energetic live show, a blend of infectious, Celtic-inspired rock that's heavy on tin whistles, fiddle, and banjo with healthy shots of off-the-cuff banter between band mates; but the primary reason Town Pants shine so brightly -- stellar musicianship. This band soars! :: GoErie.com
The average Town Pants concert is an exploding bonzo of fuckdrunken insanity. A group of seriously killer players! :: Georgia Straight
06 October 2010
The Town Pants Live In Vancouver - Thurs, Oct 21
It's back and bigger than ever!
99.3 the FOX and Landsea Tours & Adventures presents: Stuff the Bus Concert IV featuring 2009 Vancouver Fox Seeds Winners - Goodbye Beatdown, local legendary Irish Rockers - The Town Pants and the compelling singer/songwriter - David Blair!
All proceeds go to help Vancouver Homeless Transitional Shelters operated by St. James Community Service Society
In the past 3 years 11 buses have been filled with donations! Help us continue to make a huge difference for Vancouver's Homeless in a positive way!
As normal there will be lots of prizes, AMAZING live music, a ton of singing, stomping your feet and plenty of dancing!
Doors open at 8PM @ VENUE (881 Granville Street Vancouver BC)
99.3 the FOX and Landsea Tours & Adventures presents: Stuff the Bus Concert IV featuring 2009 Vancouver Fox Seeds Winners - Goodbye Beatdown, local legendary Irish Rockers - The Town Pants and the compelling singer/songwriter - David Blair!
All proceeds go to help Vancouver Homeless Transitional Shelters operated by St. James Community Service Society
In the past 3 years 11 buses have been filled with donations! Help us continue to make a huge difference for Vancouver's Homeless in a positive way!
As normal there will be lots of prizes, AMAZING live music, a ton of singing, stomping your feet and plenty of dancing!
Thursday, October 21 at 8:00pm - October 22 at 1:00am and hosted by Kevin Pierce
Doors open at 8PM @ VENUE (881 Granville Street Vancouver BC)
TIX on Sale now at http://www.clubzone.com/events/285719/vancouver/venue/stuff-the-bus-w-goodbye-beatdown-the-town-pas-david-blair
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by phone at 604-255-7272
$20 in advance, $22 at the door
by phone at 604-255-7272
$20 in advance, $22 at the door
