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[Victoria Watcher]

Sum 41 next week is nearly sold out.

 

 

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^ still scheduled but the tickets sale are quite terrible at every show.  Can you blame it on the rain?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 January 2025 - 07:43 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Sum 41 next week is nearly sold out.

 

Sum 41 to play final Victoria concert this week

 

 

 

Sum 41 has played approximately 2,000 concerts to date, including more than 100 last year alone.

 

The remarkable run comes to an end following the band’s performance in Vancouver on March 30, during the live Juno Awards telecast from Rogers Arena. After that, Sum 41 will officially retire after 28 years as a group.

 

 

https://www.timescol...s-week-10050315

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 January 2025 - 11:40 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

What: Sum 41 with PUP and Gob
Where: Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre
When: Friday, Jan. 10, 2025
Rating: 5 stars (out of 5)

Sum 41 said their final goodbye to Victoria on Friday night, the first stop on the band’s farewell tour of Canada after nearly 30 years of pop-punk servitude.

It was a big, noisy exit, with nearly two hours of thrashing punk and arena rock antics, from pyrotechnics and confetti cannons to blasts of artificial smoke. Never ones for subtlety, the Toronto group delivered a set that was equal to blunt force trauma, with a few notes of compelling emotion mixed into the evening.

For an outfit marking its departure, they couldn’t have been happier with the results: About 6,000 fans in a sold-out Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre heard the band tear through a career-spanning set of more than 25 songs.


https://www.timescol...a-punk-10063041

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 11 January 2025 - 06:29 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://orangeticket...?id_evento=1920

 

[Mike K.]

Bush is coming April 21st to Memorial Arena.

[Victoria Watcher]

Bush is coming April 21st to Memorial Arena.

 

 

[Matt R.]

Artist presale tomorrow, see you there!

[LJ]

Bush is coming April 21st to Memorial Arena.

Jeb or George?

[Matt R.]

Sixteen Stone going on repeat for a couple days I think.

[Victoria Watcher]

The operators of Quadratic Sound announced they will not to reopen as a live event space, due to the costs of the building upgrades and permits required by the City of Victoria.

 

“After careful consideration, we’ve determined we will NOT be moving forward with this project,” reads a statement posted on Sunday to Quadratic Sound’s Instagram page.

 

The venue at 655 Queens Ave., above The Bottle Depot in Rock Bay, has hosted concerts and provided recording and rehearsal space for area musicians since 2022. It was shut down in November by city bylaw officers and the fire department, due to zoning regulation violations, but continued as a rehearsal and recording space.

 

 

https://www.timescol...-venue-10139617

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 January 2025 - 09:25 AM.

[m3m]

Too bad. This place was cool

[Victoria Watcher]

The Victoria Ska and Reggae Festival released its 2025 line-up on Friday, and some big names are signed on to play the June 18-22 event.

 

Hip-hop icons The Pharcyde, punk legends Propagandhi, and beach-rockers Jakobs Castle, featuring Jakob Nowell, son of late Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell, are the top draws for the 26th edition of the popular mixed-genre event, which had its most successful year to date in 2024.

 

Save Ferris, Dub FX, Mad Professor, Sister Nancy, Long Beach Dub All Stars, iLLScarlett and Grimskunk are also among the more than two dozen performers scheduled to perform this year.

 

 

https://www.timescol...e-fest-10270009

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 February 2025 - 02:56 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Our Lady Peace performed at The Royal Theatre just shy of two years ago, a gadget-heavy concert outfitted with the latest in cutting-edge technology that left some audience members cold.

 

The Toronto quartet’s performance Monday at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre felt considerably more human and heartfelt — the dictionary definition of rock show, with fan-friendly enjoyment a top priority.

 

The sold-out performance before about 6,000 fans was part of the OLP30 Tour, a cross-Canada run designed to celebrate Our Lady Peace’s 30th anniversary. The 90-minute set opened with a video montage spanning 30 years, including an early interview where frontman Raine Maida talks about his meagre career aspirations. If only his adult self could bring the young buck from that clip up to speed on how things turned out for the group: Five million albums sold worldwide; 25 career Juno Award nominations; and membership in Canada’s Walk of Fame.

 

 

https://www.timescol...ctoria-10281982

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 25 February 2025 - 09:53 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

Olivia Rodrigo higher billing than Rod Stewart.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 March 2025 - 07:23 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

If you’ve never been to Sunfest, the massive country music festival held each summer at Lake Cowichan, the soldout Jelly Roll concert Thursday at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre would have seemed like a transmission from another planet.

 

It couldn’t have been cheap to provide the thrills he delivered. But in true country style, he left no theatric unexplored.

 

 

[...]

 

 

The production itself was massive, with a reported 13 semi-trailers carrying gear. Despite being something of warm-up date for his cross-Canada tour, which will stop at every major arena in the country, all of which are nearly three times the capacity of the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre, this was A-list entertainment all the way.

 

A 10-piece backing band. Nickelback-level pyrotechnics. And two catwalks, which saw heavy use by all members of the band.

 

 

https://www.timescol...rmance-10337807

 

 

Canadian country star Josh Ross, who now lives in Nashville, had the enviable task of being direct support for Jelly Roll, which gave him use of the main lighting rig and the majority of the extra-large stage.

 

He filled the arena with the type of bro-country that is in vogue at the moment, which wasn’t a bad thing. When you’re amidst an environment where trucker hats and rock t-shirts are the uniform du jour, you could do far worse than the Single Again hitmaker.

 

Ross returned to the stage during Jelly Roll’s set, for a cover of Garth Brooks’ Fiends in Low Places. That is a side of a modern-day country concert that puts it in a category by itself — the reliance on cover songs.

 

Ross played hits by 3 Doors Down and the Goo Goo Dolls, while Jelly Roll dipped into the catalogues of Green Day, DMX, N.W.A., OutKast, Biz Markie, Eminem, and John Denver.

 

He even did a mini set of Canadian covers, including Tom Cochrane, Alanis Morissette and Nickelback’s How You Remind Me, reportedly for the first time ever on stage.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 March 2025 - 02:12 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Katy Perry will be supported by Rebecca Black on The Lifetimes Tour

 

https://uk.news.yaho...Yjmtgx-JKbaWjzw

 

 

How about that eh?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 March 2025 - 04:45 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Racquet Club of Victoria Skating Club is thrilled to continue its legacy of producing incredible ice shows. Join us at the Archie Browning Sports Centre March 22nd and 23rd, 2025 for three amazing shows featuring our very own RCV skaters.

This classic tale about a boy who never grows up will feature group numbers and solo performances from skaters of all ages.
Show Times:

March 22nd, 2025- 2pm

March 22nd, 2025- 7pm

March 23rd, 2025- 1pm


https://www.racquetc...pan-on-ice-2025

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 March 2025 - 05:38 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

New summer festival set for Langford's Starlight Stadium draws Big Sugar, Trooper

 

 

The Great Canadian Bash will be held June 28 at the soccer stadium, and is designed to be a celebration of Canadian music and culture.

 

https://www.timescol...rooper-10354627

[Victoria Watcher]

[Matt R.]

Deftones announce their North American tour, stopping in Vancouver on August 22.

Bedouin Soundclash is at Capital Ball room on March 23, celebrating 20 years of Sounding a Mosaic. This one is going to be good, see you there!