hello everyone. so after taking a bit of a break thru April after our great and successful Canadian tour this march, we’re back at it! On APRIL 26th we are happy to have been invited to play a sold out PECHA KUCHA night at the vogue theatre. This is a great event where people come to give short presentations of all sorts. We are also going to be performing MAY 6TH at zulu records as part of a collaborative art project called PLAYGROUND. During the event we will be performing a rendition of our song THE ROAD DIVIDED from the latest EP with around 150 people singing and playing along. if you’d like to get more info, you have to RSVP to the event to get in, which is well worth your while, considering there is free beer! Check out the first lesson plan here:

or go to this site to RSVP

http://playground.is/

In other news we are happy to announce that we will be releasing a full length album titled SMALL FAME, and it will come out July 10th on vinyl!!! Finally.

Hello everybody, so we are now in the van heading across canada on our March tour in support of our new ep ‘ON MY MIND’. We just played a great kickoff show in kelowna last night and we are off to Olds Alberta tonight to play with guests NO SINNER. Check out the dates in our tour dates section, and keep up with our day to day exploits on twitter @bend_sinister and our facebook . We will be all the way out to Montreal by the 5th, and then we’ll start our way back with another 19 shows. Lets hope we don’t hit too much winter weather! Ill try to post some blogs along the way and we’ll get some videos up to but in the meantime check out this canadian tour doc we did back in 2007. Much love!

dan

We’re super excited to be a part of this year’s PuSH Festival in Vancouver. It’s an amazing event featuring tons of fantastic film, theatre and music. Tonight we play Club Push at performance works on Granville Island with Pleasure Cruise and Nicholas Krgovich. Check out www.pushfestival.ca for full details.

Hey everybody! Big things in the works, a new EP is being mixed right now and should be released March 6th. Just in time to hit the road with Detroit’s Electric Six! Check out our March tour dates and stay tuned for more info on the EP release and a full length release for this summer.

Hello everyone. We returned to vancouver Nov 24th from our 2 week german tour just in time to play a set at the GREY CUP festival with KYPRIOS and THE DUDES. The tour was a blast and we had decent crowds at each show, especially considering it was our first time. We met lots of great people along the way, and Manus our booking agent/driver was great! We hope to return to europe again next fall once we’ve released our new record in the summer/spring. We played several of our shows in germany opening up for JOASIAH AND LIZ WOLF from the ANTICON label and members of the band WHY?. They were a great band, and we hit the town with them after the shows both in Hamburg and Berlin. The highlights of the tour other then the shows were really just seeing some sights along the way including some castles, a concentration camp, wine country, the red light district in hamburg, the hip streets of berlin, and an old american spy base from the cold war. The whole tour went off without a hitch until on our train ride home dana’s bag got stolen in a train station while we waited to transfer. After a miraculous chain of events including spotting someone with the bag, chasing them through the city at 5am, a police swat team making an arrest and identifying the culprit at the police station, dana got the bag back and we still made our flight home. We are happy to have finally set the date for our album to be finished mixing by jan 28th, and Ill have exciting news about its release in the new year. In the meantime im off to mexico for 3 weeks, so HAPPY HOLIDAYS everyone!!!

Hello everyone, dan here from bend sinister. I must apologize that over the summer we got caught up with recording and life and didn’t post any new news or blogs to the site. We did have an exciting summer though playing some festivals in Alberta, An outdoor benefit in Nanaimo called Green Mountain Music Festival, and capped off the summer with LIVE AT SQUAMISH playing with Metric and Stars and Weezer. I myself kept busy working on the score for the comedy feature by Carl Bessai, ‘SISTERS AND BROTHERS’ which premiered at TIFF in september. I was also in Toronto for the screening and did a few solo shows there, as well as many here in Vancouver. To hear a taste of the sounds from our new record we released a Billy Joel cover we recorded during the sessions which you can hear here:

MOVIN OUT by BEND SINISTER

http://bendsinister.bandcamp.com/track/movin-out-billy-joel-cover

Over the fall we did OLIO festival in vancouver playing a roof top party and when we return from Europe we will be playing NOV 25 in downtown vancouver with the DUDES and KYPRIOS for the GREY CUP STREET FESTIVAL.

Anyway, We are very excited for our trip to Europe, even though it is a short tour. We are basically touring Germany after a booking agent reached out to us to book at tour there this summer. We received wonderful funding from MUSIC BC and enough from the shows to cover expenses. So at long last we get to head to Europe for our first tour there, and I hope that if all goes well, it will open the door to more extensive European touring and perhaps representation in the the future. Here are the dates and a facebook event page:

Nothing But Hope And Passion presents:

http://www.bendsinisterband.com/

http://bendsinister.bandcamp.com/

http://www.facebook.com/bendsinister

11.11.11 DK Copenhagen, Beta
13.11.11 D Berlin, Comet w/ Pale Grey
15.11.11 D Offenbach, Hafen 2
17.11.11 D Karlsruhe, Carambolage
18.11.11 D Hamburg, Hafenklang w/ Josiah Wolf (Why?) & Liz Hodson

http://www.nothingbuthopeandpassion.com/

http://www.manusbooking.com/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=213161802089947

Anyway We’ll keep everyone posted on the travels via facebook and twitter and I recap it all with another blog upon our return

See you later Canada.

dan

Hello Everyone! We just posted a canadian tour doc that Dan Moxon shot in 2007 with edo vanbreeman on a cbc radio 3 tour across canada! Check out the 5 part doc on youtube here!

http://goo.gl/5w675

In other news, we’ve been in studio working on the new album, and we hopefully will have some advance tracks out by late august! stay tuned, happy summer.

So we are still working on our brand new studio record which we recorded the drums/bass last weekend. We got through 16 tracks in 2 days and are very excited about it. In the meantime however, we also started a new BANDCAMP site where you can stream our entire catalogue of music and purchase if you like too. We also released on bandcamp a brand new album of demos and rarities over the years. Go here to check it out!

bendsinister.bandcamp.com

and dan also posted some of his early solo tunes

danmoxon.bandcamp.com

more excitement to come!!

Hello Everyone! Dan here. So we played VANCOUVER’s 125th Birthday yesterday and it was a great show. Around 8000 peeps showed up and we played on as the sun set over the mountains. It was great. You can see some photos here

Just announced we are going to be playing WHISTLER TELUS SKI AND SNOWBOARD FESTIVAL coming up at the fashion show on april 22nd. and we also just got added to the SQUAMISH MUSIC FESTIVAL which happens late august including metric and weezer. gonna be super fun!!

http://www.clubzone.com/events/details.asp?event=345718&cn=logger-sports-grounds&sn=live-at-squamish-music-festival&lcity=squamish&lnewloc=1&gclid=CK_QyZOai6gCFQU6gwodkRKlCQ

anyway were heading into the studio next weekend, and we’ll try to keep everyone posted on whats up more frequently! cheers

Hello everyone, We’ve been busy rehearsing with new bass player MATT RHODES and preparing for a new album we are going in to record in april! The album is going to be one of the most dynamic yet with the incorporation of some material from DAN and DANA’s DEEP PURPLE-esq side project SMALL FAME. It will be a roller coaster of POP, ROCK, and a touch of METAL! We are all very excited to get back into the studio and make it the best record yet!

Also a few shows coming up to announce!

THUR MARCH 17, ST PATRICKS DAY JAMESONS PARTY @ 560 CLUB

WED APRIL 6TH, 125th year VANCOUVER CELEBRATION, location TBA

SAT APRIL 9TH ALL AGES SHOW @ The venue in LANGLEY

exciting times ahead, but no immediate plans to tour til we get this album recorded. Also in sad news, our Van bit the dust after having pumped almost 6000$ of our peak performance winnings into repairs last year, and I had to sell it off for a measly 1400$. Now we have to raise the funds to buy another van…. the life of a touring band. Cheers

dan

Related show

• Artist: Bend Sinister
• Date: Wednesday, April 6th 2011
• Time: 5:00pm
• City: Bend Sinister in Vancouver
• Venue: Jack Poole Plaza
• Address: By thte Olympic Cauldron
• Country: Canada
• Admission: free!
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: Bend Sinister and 54-40 play Vancouver’s 125th Birthday Party!
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