From Friday May 9th to Saturday May 10th, Museum London will be presenting film, lectures and pannel discussions on one of today's most pressing issues - sustainability and urban development.

With a wide and impressive range of contributors and pannelists, the weekends events are sure to engage, inspire, and inform.

For a full list of the weekends events, check out the events section of this here Commons, or check out Museum London @ http://museumlondon.ca/pdfs/p13arch.pdf

Born and raised a staunch Catholic, the distance I've put between the church, God, and myself is not surprising.  In denouncing religion, and holding firm in my faith as an aethiest, I've stumbled into a sense of identity and vested myself in the practice of existential reform, inquisition, and the cascading parameters of cynical constructivism and leftist idealism.

Ironically, if not for the church and its notion of God, I'd probably believe in, well, God.

Greetings,

I'm unbelievably thrilled to be announcing a London date for Stars of the Lid on their upcoming North American tour.  Joining them will be San Francisco's uber-talent, Christopher Willits.

In addition to the etherial, definitive and universal textures of the group, the SOTL performance will feature both a string quartet and live projections, finding new contexts and interpretations of and within their work.

The show will be held at Museum London on Sunday April 27th, and will begin at 9pm.  Tickets are $15 in advanced / $20 at the door, and will be available at Grooves Records and the UCC building begining March 3rd.

Greetings,

All the best to you and a happy new year.

Saturday January 19th will find the London Music Club being host to a night of instrumental, post-rock, shoe-gaze, and post-punk freneticism.

(for fans of Explosions In The Sky, A Northern Chorus, Low, Do Make Say Think, Fela Kuti, The Ex)

Said bill includes The Riderless, What Seas What Shores, Tunturia, and Epigram.

The cost is $7, with doors at 9pm.

Note that this will be happening in the downstairs venue of the LMC.

For additional info, check out...

http://www.theriderless.com

Hello,

Vancouvers' 'Inhabitants' will be at the Alex P. Keaton on Sunday November 11th.  The show begins at 10pm, and is $5 at the door. 

Also performing this night will be Pete Lebel and myself as 'A Priori'.  We'll be using thumb pianos, violin, glockenspiel, guitars, bass, mics, fx, randomness, and visuals. 

Be well,

Ian

http://myspace.com/theinhabitants

The Inhabitants are an instrumental four-piece from Vancouver, featuring JP Carter on acoustic and amplified trumpet/effects, Dave Sikula on guitar/effects, Pete Schmitt on bass/effects, and Skye Brooks on drums. Close dissection of their music may reveal elements of experimental jazz, noise rock and free improvisation. However, the band prefers to approach their music without preconception of genre, creating a self-defined channel of composition and sound. All active in the Vancouver creative music scene, the Inhabitants are, in part, a product of their environment. You may have seen or heard an Inhabitant playing with bands like the Tony Wilson Sextet, Fond of Tigers, Carsick, the Veda Hille Band, Great Aunt Ida or Dark Blue World, and/or in collaborations with Francois Houle, Peggy Lee, The Buttless Chaps, or the N.O.W. Orchestra. In 2005, the Inhabitants released their self-titled debut (Drip Audio), an album Down Beat magazine described as "an aural introduction to a dream". Textura.Org also voiced approval, saying the band "strikes just the right balance between experimentation and structure". Later that year the group recieved the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award at the 2005 Vancouver International Jazz Festival. In 2006, the Inhabitants toured Europe, performing at the Moers Festival in Germany. They were billed as "the most exciting new band in Canada". This November 2007, the Inhabitants tour Canada in support of "The Furniture Moves Underneath", their second-full length on the Drip Audio label. The album documents a band continuing to push forward into new sonic territory, further exploring a singular approach to experimental sound, intuitive group interplay and instrumental song writing.

Hi Everyone,

Due to the success of LOLA, I've been asked by Pete of the London Music Club to join him in booking acts and artist's with whom he's unfarmiliar, so as farmiliarise the space to a younger audience.  He's offered me, with full creative autonomy, the soon to be freshly renovated downstairs room.  Said space will be finished by early December and will have a capacity of about 100 or more. 

This is exciting, because it now gives us a sit down, 'music first' venue, of which we all know we've been lacking as of late.  My intent is to bring to the LMC, what perhaps doesn't necessarily work at the Alex.  This includes quieter aspects of avant-folk, electronica, indie, jazz, and the like.  This means fresh wall space too!

Hi Everyone,

Here is the October listing for the Alex P. Keaton.

There's something for everyone - I think!

Be well,

Ian / The APK

So...

2nd - pulp friction w/ dj rob gordon
http://djrg.blogspot.com

3rd - away r'io! w/ beasts and super beasts
pwyc (suggested $5)
10pm
http://myspace.com/awayrio

Greetings LC community,
Prefuse 73 will be performing at the London Ontario Live Arts launch party on Thursday September 20th @ Rum Runners.
Additional performers include Stop Die Resuscitate, OK Cobra, Thesis Sahib, Toolshed, and Figure & Ground.
Tickets are $15 in advanced from Grooves Record's, and $18 @ the door.
Doors are @ 8pm
For additional information please check out...
http://www.lolafest.com

Hi folks,

Today was the official launch of the London Ontario Live Arts Festival.

LOLA is a three day music and visual art's festival which aims to transform our downtown into a celebration of the arts and culture through various performances and installations.

LOLA will run from Thursday September 20th through to Sunday September 23rd.

For more information on our event, please check out the links below.

xo

LOLA staff

http://www.lolafest.com

http://myspace.com/lolafestival

Hi folks,

London's 'The Riderless' are very fortunate to be playing several dates with Liverpool phenomes, 'Loka' (Ninja Tune).

Our London date, as mentioned above is...

Tuesday September 4th

Call The Office

$8

10pm

xo

http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/artist.php?id=103 

http://myspace.com/lokafireshepherds 

http://www.theriderless.com 

http://myspace.com/riderless