2015-05-02: May Day Info Fair at Grandview Park!

In an anarchic display of spontaneous unfolding, we have been engaged to perform at a free open-air info fair from 1-4 pm at Commercial Drive's Grandview Park Saturday, May 2nd, in celebration of the international workers' holiday the day before. Hosted by Audrey Siegl, the bill should include the fabulous Carnival Band, Gross Domestic Product, and voices in harmony from the Left Coast Labour Chorus and the Solidarity Notes Labour Choir.

2010-11-27: Creaking Planks at the Orange Party

In some form or another, East Vancouver has been seeing on-and-off Orange Parties (vs. mere lower-case orange parties) since approximately 1990, celebrating supreme orangitude by convening in orange buildings, wearing orange clothes, eating orange food, drinking orange drinks, swimming in orange hot tubs and listening to orange music. The Orange Art Society formed in 2002 and since then regular Orange Festivities have been well-known ("Why is everybody buying orange clothes this week?" asked Burcu, while those of us in the loop shared a wink) and loved among certain segments of East Van's Burner community, with representation from key members of the Fool's Society and frequently incorporating big noise from the Carnival Band.

This year, because life is too short to wear boring shoelaces, we are going to discover just how orange we can make our music. (We often play blue; the color wheel theory suggests that orange will be the opposite.)

As the party is taking place at a very orange private residence, it's not clear how much further we can disclose regarding the proceedings, but as a consolation for the tragically un-orange, our performance the following night is open to all!

2010-06-13: Planks play at Velopalooza finale in Strathcona Park

Unless something goes very wrong (or, if you prefer to have a half-full view, very right), this is anticipated to be the last Creaking Planks performance on our home turf for just about three months. (Hope you got a copy of our CD to remember us by while the getting was good! Of course, our mux of live bootlegs should still be up, however long in the tooth it's getting.) The occasion is the closing party of the estimable Vancouver Velopaloloza festival of bicycles and bicycle culture, with which the CPs have been long (if loosely) associated, dating back to our performances at last year's Bicycle Music Fest, at the B:C:Clettes' Rouge et Noir Cabaret, at the RevPhil's "Bike Porn" film night and still earlier.

Speaking of "earlier", our set will be starting promptly at noon, in Strathcona Park (at Prior between Hawks and Raymur -- out behind the Casa Gelato!), for one half-hour, following a set from Buck and Jess and preceding sets by the likes of Ndidi Cascade, the Carnival Band, the Wonderful Diving Horses, The Thick of It and the Deadwax Collective.

For more information about the festival, please see their website.