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.

One Night Stand II

For a second year in a row some of Vancouver's best came together on New Years Eve to play some covers, drink some booze and have a ton of fun.

I was asked to set up a photo booth for the evening, which ended up being a source of great amusement and hilarious photos.


It was truly a amazing night (I even played cowbell/tambourine for a few songs, and sang Hey Jude with the ensemble on stage at the end of the night).

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and for kicks, here's the video that I shot of the band/ladies covering M.I.A.'s Paper Planes:

Lovely Laura

I went to the Biltmore to see my wonderfully talented friend Laura Smith play, and was treated to a great evening of music and friends.

In addition to Laura, I managed to finally see Elias play live (complete with Adaline cameo!) and Bodhi Jones for the first time after being solicited for Peak Performance votes.

Some of the best of Vancouver's music scene were there too (Hannah Georgas, JP Maurice, James Lamb, Josh McNorton, to name drop a few).

I had a wonderful time and here are some photos of that evening:

A Day At The Ceeb

On the 4th of December (which is actually my mom's birthday! Happy Birthday Mum!) I spent ...around 6 hours at the newly renovated CBC Vancouver building, which they opened up to the public for a day!

The main goal of the day was to (at the prompting of Sas) find, and have my photo taken with, Ian Hanomansing(h). In addition to this I spent a lot of my time in the Radio 3 studio broadcast, watching Said The Whale and Hannah Georgas perform live to air, and to the visitors to the building.

I also finally met up with Bob from VancouverIsAwesome.com as he was being interviewed for Grant Lawrence's show.

It was a pretty awesome day/a total geek out looking behind the scenes and meeting some great people (plus Chris Kelly got me my R3 t-shirt and touque!)
All of the photos from the day can be found here: www.mcavoy.ca/CBCOpenHouse ... and here are a few of my favs:

Islands Disappear

My lovely friends Said The Whale had their Vancouver CD Release Show this week at St. James Hall, complete with Hannah "Gorgeous" Georgas opening for them.

It was an excellent show with many friends and family and some of the Vancouver music scene elite...

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Dan Mangan Live @ The Cultch - Videos

"Robots"


"So Much For Everyone"


"Et Les Mots Croises"

Hannah Vancouver..

Oh Hannah Georgas. What can I say about my talented friend...
I think Grant Lawrence said something like a Hot Greek Ball of Fun.

Hannah played at the Bilmore the night after the Ronatron showcase, so after I stopped by the Michele Quan opening for her new show, I ran up Main Street for my second night in a row at the venue.

Hannah was playing an acoustic set, which is just as great as the full band.

I put up the photos here: www.mcavoy.ca/hannah@thebiltmore

Junofest: Day Three...

Christine McAvoy: Photos For Our Fathers.


Day Three: Saturday March 28th.
Start Time: 1:00pm
End Time: 2:30am
Locations: The Middle of The Street, The Cellar, Nat Jay's Love Shack


RUN DOWN:

So the day starts of with the wonderful Nat Jay, playing on Granville St.
It was exceptionally cold to stand outside that day, and as I thought I would be in the "LONG ASS TENT" I did not dress appropriately.
Nat was wonderful and was backed up by her Borrowed Band. Peter Carruthers, the bassist for Said The Whale was pulling triple duty, playing with STW, Nat AND Dan Mangan. Five shows in total during the weekend. So when his father came up to me with his business card asking if I could send photos of his son "if I had some", I laughed.

Once Nat successfully put Love When I Can into my head for the entire day, I went to warm up with friends before the evening concerts.

Hannah Georgas was on first at The Cellar (which is def. a club)...and was brilliant as always and made me want to slow dance when she sang The National.
Nat Jay vol. 2 was right after Hannah and I enjoyed the set as much as I did earlier in the day. I think her pants were the finishing touch...

Seconds after Nat finished the Cellar returned into club-i-ness...which was kinda irritating, but when a DJ starts the set with the Flight Of The Conchords theme music, you can't help but smile. (Plus this introduced me to a song called "I'm In Miami Bitch", which unfortunately replaced Nay Jay on repeat in my head).

Nat and I decided that the Media Club would be a zoo and we couldn't see Hey Ocean...so bagels were in order and went to her casa to chill before finding out what was going on. Upon a lack of text messages and realizing that everything was almost done anyways, bagels and relaxing was where it was at.

Refuel for party night...

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PHOTOS: www.mcavoy.ca/junofest - Day Three

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!