Skating Party!

Radio 3 had a skating party at Robson Square the other day. Hannah, Dan Mangan & Dan Moxon were there, as well as the R3 kids...

Had an excellent time skating around with Hannah...took this shot of us under the skylight dome:


More shots on Flickr...yes, I caved, but I don't think I will be using it for much, besides stuff like this.

Road Regrets

I'm very, very jealous that Mr. Jonathan Taggart gets to tag along on a short jaunt out to the Praries and back with Dan Mangan and Aidan Knight. Logistics and van-space left me in Vancouver instead of on the Zolas/We Are The City tour, so I'm even more jealous.

Anyways, Jon's going to be photo blogging along the way: http://jonathantaggart.com/blog/?p=255 and it will be co-posted on regulars VIA!, NXEW and Soundproof.

If you mosey over to Dan's website right now, you'll see this post about his performance in Los Angeles with my photo from Junofest:

Vancouver IS Awesome..

I swear this is the last of the Dan stuff...mainly because I have nothing left, and I'm in Ontario currently and Dan is not.

A very wonderful website called: Vancouver Is Awesome came to my attention not too long ago, and I got in touch with them about Dan's CD release show, and suggested they do a Vancouver's Most Awesome questionnaire with him...

They did - so click here to read it.
It features portraits of Dan taken by Jonathan Taggart and one of my shots from the Zulu show.

Dan's The Man...

My article is up on Ronatron...
Yup, I write things too... Sas may have helped, but I stared at the computer for many hours and didn't use "I" once, so I'm proud.

If you haven't got enough of Dan yet, go read it.

Dan Mangan Live @ The Cultch - Videos

"Robots"


"So Much For Everyone"


"Et Les Mots Croises"

Take a Peak at This

(that pun's for you Dan)

Day two of being on the Dan Mangan Publicity Tour :)
I went with Dan to the Peak (100.5 FM here in Vancouver) to take a few shots during his interview with Peter and Carmen. He also played a cover of The Smith's There Is A Light That Never Goes Out which brought me back to one of the first times I heard Dan play live.

Here are some shots; the first is from 8th and Hemlock where I found Dan restringing his guitar.

Indie King vs. Hindi King

It was the Bombay.

Dan Mangan was at the CBC Radio 3 studios to do an interview and a Pun-Off with host Tariq Hussain and I tagged along to take some shots.
It was extremely amusing, esp. to be behind the scenes and watch them writing out their list of puns. I think Dan won in the end...it was definitely the 'ovum' joke.
Click here to listen to the interview (the Pun-Off is at 17:00).

What Darlings, The O'Darling...

Busy busy busy for a Sunday evening in Vancouver.

First I headed to the Railway to see Matt Epp perform again. He was just as great as the night before and I'm glad I went! Had to miss
Ann Vriend to jump over to the Media Club for show #2...




By the time I got there I had missed Benny Schütze, Said The Whale, Aidan Knight and only caught the last song by Hey Ocean!... From what I hear it was a free-for-all of Vancouver's indie music scene. Dan Mangan was in the crowd and got called on stage, performed two songs and then it was on to the main act...
The O'Darling.

They are a pretty amazing band...apparently originally from Victoria, but based in Toronto now. They had the entire crowd on their feet, many of them dancing. Aidan joined them on stage for a few songs too. I'm excited to see him perform at Dan's CD Release show on Friday. By the end of the evening most everyone's facebook and twitter statuses changed to praise for the band and the evening.
Here are some shots from the love-fest at the Media Club:

Circle of Lovin'

I post a photo of Dan.
Dan posts my photo of Dan.
I post Dan's post about my photo.

Love love love.

Dan Mangan: Live at Zulu Records

I learned via Dan's Twitter acocunt(@danmanganmusic) that he'd be playing live in-store at Zulu Records at 5pm yesterday (August 22). So I grabbed my camera and walked the whole 10 blocks downhill from my house to Zulu and was hit with this:

It dawned on me later (not to mention, made me feel old) that it's technically an all ages show, which explains the vast amount of young girls in attendance.

The show was short and sweet, and ended with the entire store singing along to "Robots".
A lot of our friends showed up as well Peter, from Said The Whale, Josh McNorton from The Painted Birds, Zach Gray from The Zolas and Nadia von Hahn.
Pretty great way to spend part of an afternoon:

To see all the photos, click here: www.mcavoy.ca/DanManganLiveAtZulu

And, as always, here are few of my favourites:

Junofest: Day One...

[[note: I really should have blogged about this as it was happening, but seriously...4 nights of not getting home before 2am takes a lot out of you. I'm still impressed that I got some of the photos up during this weekend.]]

Day One: Thursday March 26th.
Start Time: 4:00pm
End Time: 3:30am
Locations: Granville Street/Westjet Street Party, The Media Club, Megabite Pizza, Cab

RUN DOWN:

I went with intent to support my ever favourites: Dan Mangan and Said The Whale, and stayed for every single performance that afternoon/night.
-The Dudes were hilarious and so fun to watch and coined the phrase "LONG ASS TENT", referring to the city block sized performance tent. This could be hear shouted throughout the weekend.
-Dan Mangan was as amazing as ever...Josh McNorton seems to think that the girls and myself made him blush with all our shouting.
-Said The Whale was next. The ladies and I snaked out spots up front and made new friends while establishing our dance area. It was hard to see Spencer though, due to the amazing lights on the stage. Love the Red Rocket.
-Jon and Roy...Dawn you were right...it IS Jon Middleton. (Whom once gave me a Sitka t-shirt for, you know, being awesome.) I met their manager and promo guy and am giving them photos..nice guys.
-Hey Rosetta! I finally got to hear them live and loved it. They are touring across Canada. Go see them. Josh Ward = so nice.
-Hot Hot Heat...gave me a beer for giving them paper to write their set lists on. Funny.

After this, the whales etc. went to the media club. I have no idea who was playing. I just needed to sit. Which was great because once the place cleared out we danced up a storm.

And this is only day ONE people...

Check out the photos here: www.mcavoy.ca/junofest

Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Pop!

Here are the photos from the Christmas concert with Hannah Georgas, Dan Mangan, Said The Whale and Hey Ocean!:
Jingle Bell Pop - Photos!