Meet the team!
This is Raine, who does all of Double Lunch's design work and built our website.
Raine is small but has pretty good hand-strength. They use it mostly on a computer mouse to make different kinds of design work, like posters, album art, web design, illustrations, brochures, billboards, that kind of thing. Computer-time is very important to Raine, as is walking around Edmonton and asking animals how they are doing. They play a few instruments and love writing music or making art.
Craig has known Raine for over a decade. A few years ago, Raine messaged Craig and suggested they should quit their jobs and start a business together. Craig said yes., but they didn't do it because they didn't really have an idea.
When it came time to restart Double Lunch, Raine was the first choice.
It has worked out perfectly. Raine is endlessly creative, brilliant, kind, humble and passionate.
Everyone say hi to Raine!
@doodle_oodle_ew
Our next show is Hamilton legend B.A. Johnston. His songs are funny, charming and beautiful. His live show is sweaty, grubby, vaudeville. Johnston is a song and dance man. A comedian. A true performer.
He will be joined by Bad Dream House and Paint Drying.
Ticket link in bio! Buy them now!
@oldbajohnston@baddreamhouse780@paint__drying@thebuckonwhyte
This is tonight! We are so excited. Fancing's album, Fencing Wikipedia, blew our minds. Also, D. Blade and Pallor are two of our favorite bands.
Please come! Support local music. If you want to come but can't afford cover, just message us. Nobody gets turned away.
@fencingband@dblade_musick@pallorband@aviary.edmonton
Cool shit! Check out @trickle_down_music and https://trickledownmusic.ca/
Brought to you by @shawnoftheshred
I've been telling everyone I know about this for a year and now I get to tell all of you!
Also, despite knowing Shawn for 15 years, I have never said his last name out loud and might be pronouncing it wrong. Sorry, if so.
If you have seen a cool band play in Edmonton, there's a good chance you have seen D. Blade (@dblade_musick ) on the stage with them. His contributions always make an impact, but he has also flourished on his own, bringing you a show that's always exciting, and never the same twice.
Catch a one of kind set on Wednesday, May 6th at @aviary.edmonton with @fencing49827 and @pallorband !
Tickets available in our bio, and reach out if affordability is an issue. We won't let you miss this!
prairie post-punk + wiry indie rock… a little dreamy, a little dreary; with some odd grooves but not too many.
That sums up @pallorband who kick off our show this Wednesday, May 6th @aviary.edmonton with @fencing49827 and @dblade_musick .
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:30pm.
Tickets available at the link in our bio!
Forming in 2019 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Fencing had met as teenagers playing in the indie
scene but soon diverged sonically from their roots. By the time they recorded their record Fencing
Wikipedia, the band had developed a complex, idiosyncratic sound characterized by extreme
dynamic range, harmonic dissonance and irregular song structures. Tate's vocal delivery on the
record alternates between mumbling, whispering, singing and shouting. The lyrics are presented
in an associative style and cover themes such as unease, boredom, anxiety, and going to the
mall.
See @fencing49827 with @dblade_musick and @pallorband on May 6th @aviary.edmonton ! Tickets available in our bio!
On June 17, Canada’s Greatest Showman, B.A. Johnston makes his return to The Buckingham. It is impossible to explain how fun a B.A. show is. It will warm your heart for months afterwards.
He will be joined by Paint Drying and Bad Dream House, a new band from members of The Blame-its, Counterfeit Jeans, The Sorels, The Real Sickies etc etc.
Ticket LInk in bio!
Doors at 7:30. Show at 8 sharp!
@thebuckonwhyte@oldbajohnston@baddreamhouse780@paint__drying
It has been three years since we lost Ben Sir. Ben represented and embodied everything good and true. He lived for friendship, kindness, generosity, community, creativity and love.
I think about him constantly. .
Every day without him is sadder than every day with him, but I'll be forever thankful that we had Ben as long as we did.
I (Craig) had flirted with the idea of starting a record label for years. One time, in the Wunderbar years, I asked a band that nobody but me liked if they would be interested in releasing a record with me. They said no, and that they would prefer to sign with a bigger label.
That was crushing enough to bury the idea for years, until I finally saw a band that I liked enough to dig the idea back up.
Birds Bear Arms were young, poppy, weird and mathy. After they tore the roof off of an empty show, I asked them to the record label prom and they said yes.
We ended up doing a double release show for their first EP Lamp Spectacular, along with an EP by CHAM.
It was fun and nice. I felt like we learned and grew together and ended up releasing their second EP, Art Vandalize, too.
Birds Bear Arms went on to play dozens of amazing shows, grew a following, got better and tighter and broke up. Double Lunch Records released 40+ albums, mostly tapes, got very stressful and shut its doors when I had a kid and converted the tape duplicating office into a bedroom. That band that said no never released anything on any label and broke up with nobody but me liking them.
Birds Bear Arms mean a lot to me, and they are back! A reunion shows! With 3 other amazing bands! At The Dive Bar!
You should go. Im going!
@birdsbeararms@divebaryeg
