The Town Pants - Fundraiser ( July 18, 2011)
If you live in the Vancouver area, Aaron will be hosting the fundraising event next Saturday night (June 18th) for his friends in the band THE TOWN PANTS.
If you live outside of Vancouver and want to help, the band is accepting donations via PayPal.
The link to donate is on their website. http://www.thetownpants.com/
FUNDRAISER For THE TOWN PANTS
Time: Saturday, June 18th, 2011 at 7:00pm
Location: The Forum, 1163 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC
"SUPPORT YOUR PANTS"
As you may know, on May 18th 2011 in Vancouver, our trusty passenger touring van was broken into by some thieves. They stole the van and abandoned it 3 days later, stealing our PA system, two guitars, (significantly Duane's blue acoustic Takamine that's played every Town Pants show we've ever done) our trusty GPS, and a variety of smaller electronic gear, as well and $3500 worth scuba gear that had been borrowed for the day. All in total valued at over $20,000. A complete list of the gear with identification can be seen on our website at www.thetownpants.com
There's no worse thing that can happen to a band at home or on the road. We've known some other bands that can't recover from a setback like this and are often forced to break-up when dealing with an incident like this. For us, this comes at a particularly tough time, just before we're supposed to leave on an upcoming US tour this summer. We're not taking it lying down. We're currently working with Vancouver Police and keeping an eye out on the pawn shops for the missing equipment, and we're hoping something will turn up. But as you can imagine, its been quite the ordeal. Sadly, these items were not insured.
Some friends and fans in Vancouver are helping put together a sort of 'Pants-Aid' if you will--June 18th at The Forum (1163 Granville) featuring some pals of ours coming together to help us out including Bocephus King, Geoff Berner, Dustin Bentall, the Highballs, Gold Stars are For Suckers, and Butch Murphy and the Bloody Miracles---who'll all come down to perform, that we'll cap it all off with a headlining set by The Town Pants (playing on some borrowed gear). This will be a fundraising concert that not only allows us to get the word out about the stolen gear hoping that something will turn up, and 100% of ticket proceeds will go to purchasing some equipment so we can still do the tour.
Thanks so much out, including you out there, for all your continued incredible support.
SATURDAY JUNE 18th
The Town Pants w/ very special guests Dustin Bentall, Bocephus King, Geoff Berner, the Hard Rock Miners, Gold Stars are For Suckers, Butch Murphy & The Bloody Miracles and featuring guest emcee actor Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica/The Bridge) at The Forum (1163 Granville Street). phone (604)-605-1163
Tickets available anytime after Tuesday June 6th at: Zulu Records (1972 West 4th Avenue), Highlife Records (1317 Commercial Drive), RedCat Records(4332 Main Street) and of course The Forum (1163 Granville Street) $15 Advance, $20 Door, Lots of prizes to be won, 50/50 draw and more....
Again - 100% of ticket proceeds go towards replacing our all our gear that was recently stolen.!!
source: FUNDRAISER For THE TOWN PANTS
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UPDATE (July 17th): Unfortunately Aaron won't be able to host this event as he will be out of town :(
If you live outside of Vancouver and want to help, the band is accepting donations via PayPal.
The link to donate is on their website. http://www.thetownpants.com/
FUNDRAISER For THE TOWN PANTS
Time: Saturday, June 18th, 2011 at 7:00pm
Location: The Forum, 1163 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC
"SUPPORT YOUR PANTS"
As you may know, on May 18th 2011 in Vancouver, our trusty passenger touring van was broken into by some thieves. They stole the van and abandoned it 3 days later, stealing our PA system, two guitars, (significantly Duane's blue acoustic Takamine that's played every Town Pants show we've ever done) our trusty GPS, and a variety of smaller electronic gear, as well and $3500 worth scuba gear that had been borrowed for the day. All in total valued at over $20,000. A complete list of the gear with identification can be seen on our website at www.thetownpants.com
There's no worse thing that can happen to a band at home or on the road. We've known some other bands that can't recover from a setback like this and are often forced to break-up when dealing with an incident like this. For us, this comes at a particularly tough time, just before we're supposed to leave on an upcoming US tour this summer. We're not taking it lying down. We're currently working with Vancouver Police and keeping an eye out on the pawn shops for the missing equipment, and we're hoping something will turn up. But as you can imagine, its been quite the ordeal. Sadly, these items were not insured.
Some friends and fans in Vancouver are helping put together a sort of 'Pants-Aid' if you will--June 18th at The Forum (1163 Granville) featuring some pals of ours coming together to help us out including Bocephus King, Geoff Berner, Dustin Bentall, the Highballs, Gold Stars are For Suckers, and Butch Murphy and the Bloody Miracles---who'll all come down to perform, that we'll cap it all off with a headlining set by The Town Pants (playing on some borrowed gear). This will be a fundraising concert that not only allows us to get the word out about the stolen gear hoping that something will turn up, and 100% of ticket proceeds will go to purchasing some equipment so we can still do the tour.
Thanks so much out, including you out there, for all your continued incredible support.
SATURDAY JUNE 18th
The Town Pants w/ very special guests Dustin Bentall, Bocephus King, Geoff Berner, the Hard Rock Miners, Gold Stars are For Suckers, Butch Murphy & The Bloody Miracles and featuring guest emcee actor Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica/The Bridge) at The Forum (1163 Granville Street). phone (604)-605-1163
Tickets available anytime after Tuesday June 6th at: Zulu Records (1972 West 4th Avenue), Highlife Records (1317 Commercial Drive), RedCat Records(4332 Main Street) and of course The Forum (1163 Granville Street) $15 Advance, $20 Door, Lots of prizes to be won, 50/50 draw and more....
Again - 100% of ticket proceeds go towards replacing our all our gear that was recently stolen.!!
source: FUNDRAISER For THE TOWN PANTS
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UPDATE (July 17th): Unfortunately Aaron won't be able to host this event as he will be out of town :(