Join us Thursday April 26 for Humans, Nautiluss and Evy Jane. Robbie Slade and Peter Ricq, are Humans, an electronic music duo based in East Vancouver BC. This show is in support of their latest ep ‘Traps’, released on March 6th on Hybridity Music. They’ll be joined by Turbo Recording artist Nautiluss (Grahamzilla) and Evy Jane.

Doors at 8pm
Advance tickets are $12
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Join us for a night of live music in the Cabaret with Australian electro rock outfit The Trip. With guests Marble Canyon and DJ Elemental.

Have a listen here

Doors at 9pm
www.thebandthetrip.com

Vancouver’s best bar is now the best place to watch Canucks Playoff games! Join us Sunday April 15 to watch the Canucks take on the Los Angeles Kings in game 3 of their 7 game series. Catch the game on the Incredible Tiki-Tron, our 16-foot big screen, while enjoying tasty drinks and food from our special Tiki Bar snack menu.

Brought to you by Vancouver is Awesome and Sharks & Hammers

Puck drop at 7pm
Admission is free

First Love Records and Sealed With a Kiss Present: The Gay Nineties vinyl release party with friends Black Wizard, and Electric Hosts Colleen Rennison and Eric Campbell of No Sinner.

Doors at 9pm
Admission is $8
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An exploration into the art and fascination of voyeurism. Featuring and life performance by Night Mirrors. Visuals by Friends+War, Lief Hall, Andrew Volk+Daniel R and Rodrigo Gallegos. With DJs Deniz and Zoo playing minimalwave, synth and post punk.

Doors at 10:30
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Join Megaphone for the launch of its second-annual literary issue, Voices of the Street. The event will feature powerful readings of poetry and prose from marginalized writers and artists from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and inner-city. All proceeds raised from the event will go toward Megaphone’s community writing workshop project, which is run in treatment centres, social housing complexes and community centres in the Downtown Eastside and downtown Vancouver.

www.megaphonemagazine.com

Doors at 6pm
$10 suggested donation

Is there a green space five minutes from your house? Should there be? What is the future of parks in Vancouver? How about planting fruit tree orchards in parks? Or planting tens of thousands more street trees? You are invited to Co-create, Dialog and Dream your city green with an amazing line-up of Intergenerational Storytelling.

Doors at 6:30pm
Admission is $5-10. No one turned away.
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Arsenal Pulp Press, The Waldorf and editors Elee Kraljii Gardiner and John Mikhail Asfour invite you to the launch of the new anthology V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Featuring readings by Cathleen With, Henry Doyle, Phoenix Winter, and My Name is Scot. Please join us in celebrating our vibrant writing community!

Event runs from 7pm to 9pm
Admission is Free

Join us for the Rebel Kind Cabaret and Travelin’ Road Show.

An Outlaw Variety Show?! Every Sunday evening a cavalcade of Outlaw Superstars spill onto the Waldorf’s beautiful Cabaret stage to belt out tunes of bluebirds, broken hearts and a bit of bad ass boogie. The truckload of colourful characters with their blue country souls will shock and amaze you and your friends.

Contributors will include Howard Rix from The Trespassers, Mac Pontiac, Doug Andrew from Circus In Flames, Debra Jean, Tom Anselmi, Butch Murphy, Kelly Haigh, Mike Van Eyes and even Buck Cherry from the Modernettes who wrote “The Rebel Kind”, which the event is named after!

Upcoming guests will include Carolyn Mark, Blind God, Reno Jack The Bear, Shelley Campbell, Eddy Dutchman, Scott Smith, Spoon River’s Tavis Triance, Victoria’s David P. Smith and many many more.

Doors at 7pm
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Metal night in the Hideaway! High-calibre underground Black, Death, Doom Metal and beyond! Sean Coggins, Shawn Hache and Josh Anderson will be playing you a serious mix of heavy metal records on this special evening. The room is dark, the candles lit, and the vintage analog sound system is a vicious beast. If we don’t have it on vinyl it doesn’t get played!

Doors at 10pm
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Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker is the principal composer, producer and director of Gifted & Blessed. He is most widely known for his work under the pseudonym GB. Although his music ranges widely stylistically, he classifies his work under the umbrella term technoindigenous studies, a sound that emphasizes the integration of modern analog electronics with the spirit and sometimes the aesthetic of the music of his ancestors.

With Max Ulis and Derek Dee.

Enjoy a mix by GB on the Leisure website

Doors at 10pm
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The undisputed champion of Long Weekend parties in Vancouver returns to the Waldorf Hotel for our first LLW of the year, the night before Good Friday. Our annual Easter Bunny Bender edition encompasses a spectacle of unique sights and sounds in all four rooms featuring the finest local DJs spinning house, funk, bass and mash-up. With DJs Tyler Stadius, Abasi, Max Ulis and so many more!

Doors at 9pm
Advance tickets are $12
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Join us for the launch party for the latest issue of Snap Magazine. Drinks tickets for early comers and fantastic door prizes. With DJ Cherchez La Femme.

Doors at 7pm
Admission is free
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Join us Sunday April 1 as the 3-D Music Festival concludes with a performance by Krautrock legend Damo Suzuki.

About Damo Suzuki
The longtime lead vocalist for Krautrock pioneers Can, Kenji “Damo” Suzuki was born in Japan on January 16, 1950. An expatriate street poet inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, he spent the better part of the late 1960s wandering through Europe, and while busking outside a cafe in Munich in May of 1970 was discovered by Can members Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit; asked to replace the group’s former frontman Malcolm Mooney, Suzuki joined them onstage that very night, making his recorded debut later that same year on the LP Soundtracks. With Suzuki in the lineup, Can produced its most enduring and innovative work, including classic LPs like 1971′s Tago Mago, 1972′s Ege Bamayasi and 1973′s Future Days; however, upon completing work on the latter, he left the band to become a Jehovah’s Witness. Absent from music for a decade, in 1983 Suzuki began showing up unannounced to perform at shows by the band Dunkelziffer, eventually joining the group full-time and recording a pair of LPs; in 1986, he formed the Damo Suzuki Band with fellow Can alum Liebezeit on drums, Dominik von Senger on guitar, and Matthias Keul on keyboards. Four years later the group mutated to become Damo Suzuki and Friends, its loose-knit lineup playing in and around the Cologne area on a weekly basis; in 1998, he founded the Damo’s Network label, issuing a series of live recordings including V.E.R.N.I.S.S.A.G.E., Seattle and the seven-CD box set P.R.O.M.I.S.E..
www.damosuzuki.com

With special guests Sound Carriers: Von Bingen.

Doors at 8pm
Advance tickets are $12
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On Wednesday March 28, The 3-D Music Festival continues with Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3/Spectrum/E.A.R.).

About Sonic Boom
Sonic Boom is the alias of Pete Kember, best known as the singer-guitarist in the legendary Spacemen 3. While attending art college Kember teamed with Jason Pierce to form Spacemen 3, recording a demo tape in 1986; after signing to Glass Records, the group recorded their debut LP Sound of Confusion, for which Kember adopted the name Peter Gunn. By the time of their follow-up EP Walkin’ with Jesus, he had rechristened himself Sonic Boom, keeping the pseudonym for the duration of his career. In 1990 he issued his lone solo LP, Spectrum; after the 1991 swan song Recurring, Sonic recycled the Spectrum title as the name of his new band, which debuted with the LP Soul Kiss (Glide Divine) and went on to release three more albums of original material as well as numerous compilations and live albums. During 2008-11, Kember toured extensively as Spectrum as a four-piece ensemble, including providing main support for the 2009 reformation tour of My Bloody Valentine. Sonic Boom was also the driving force behind the Experimental Audio Research project, a loose configuration of soundmakers which included My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields. From ’94-’05, E.A.R. released 11 albums of original material. Kember has also played and collaborated with Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, MGMT and many more.
www.sonic-boom.info

With special guests The Passenger and Sinoa Caves.

Doors at 8pm
Advance tickets are $15
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On Tuesday March 27, The 3-D Music Festival kicks off with Sun Araw and Matthewdavid.

About Sun Araw
Cameron Stallones began his musical career as a founding member of the experimental psychedelic rock collective Magic Lantern. Soon after, demos originally intended to light the Lantern became the first Sun Araw LP: The Phynx. Sun Araw blossomed as a solo project, walking the mind-planes from psychedelic drone to melted afrobeat, from warped dub to minimal composition. Structural and spiritual inspiration for Sun Araw comes primarily from Cameron’s first artistic love: film and filmmakers, especially those invested in the long-take. Devoted to long-form mantric music, the ethos is similar: straight lampin’ in deep focus, angle after angle on the melodic object, gaining strength from the subsequent breakdown of the illusion of fixed perspective.
www.sunaraw.com

About Matthewdavid
Matthewdavid’s music reflects beautiful, fleeting moments and magnifies them. His live performances are akin to watching a sorcerer conjure spirits from the deep. He pulls tones like artifacts from an astral trail that ebbs and flows with fresh discoveries. Along the way Matthewdavid collects exotic sound figures: spiraling amethyst cones and wild flowering buds. He treats each found sound like a bright fiber to be weaved into new waveforms. Outmind pulsates with this sense of constant discovery. It is a mosaic sparkling with mystic, radiant matter.
www.leavingrecords.com

With M. Geddes Gengras, Diva and Evy Jane

Presented by New Forms Festival

Doors at 8pm
Advance tickets are $12
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A Soundtrack to My Life presents: Paris ’68—A French Pop Discotheque + Film Screening

★ Dance to the beat of Sixties French Pop ★

Join us as Paris ’68 (Mandy-Lyn & Daniel F) play music by France Gall • Serge Gainsbourg • Jacques Dutronc • Brigitte Bardot + much more

Listen to a mix of French Pop by Paris ’68 here: http://soundcloud.com/aritzia/made-in-france

★ Come Early and Watch a Classic French New Wave Film★

Earlier in the evening we’ll be screening the Jean-Luc Godard film Masculin, féminin on the ‘Incredible Tiki-Tron’ (The Waldorf Hotel’s Giant 16 foot Film Screen)

‘Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud (400 Blows) & Chantall Goya (ye-ye singer), Masculin, féminin is a notable film within Godard’s 60s period of filmmaking, and is considered by critics as representative of 1960s France and Paris.The film contains references to various pop culture icons and political figures around that time, such as Charles de Gaulle and André Malraux to James Bond and Bob Dylan, and follows Godard’s non-linear filmmaking techniques and narratives. The main story is at times interrupted by various sequences and sub-plots, including a scene paraphrased from LeRoi Jones’ Dutchman. Arguably the most famous quotation from the film is “This film could be called The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola”, which is actually an intertitle’ between chapters.

About A Soundtrack To My Life
A weekly party presented by the Waldorf Hotel & Natasha Lands featuring some of the most interesting people in our city and the music that they love in the Tiki Bar. The first 25 attendees will be given a limited edition CD with custom artwork.Past Contributors have included Douglas Coupland, Amber Webber, Graeme Berglund, Paul Wong + more.Listen to past Soundtrack mixes on our Soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/waldorfhotel

Film Begins at 7:30pm
DJ set begins at 10pm
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The Waldorf is joining forces with Berlin’s James Flavour from Dirt Crew! Featuring Pezzner (Freerange, OM, Crosstown Rebels) from Seattle. Pezzners tracks are loaded with the kind of leftfield, organic sounding house which is at once club orientated but with enough interest and depth to keep the home listener totally absorbed. Aside from his works in the duo Jacob London (Classic Music) the label Freerange Records covered the first two EP’s of his career, “Other Lover” and the epic three-part masterpiece “Almost Here.” These two EPs garnered him massive support from artists as varied as John Digweed, Laurent Garnier, Peter Kruder, Steve Bug and Ben Watt, setting up Pezzner as a producer on the rise. With Dirt Crew (Berlin) and Mike McSuede.

Doors at 10pm
Admission is $12 before 11. $15 afterwards.
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Join us for three days of innovative sounds and performance with Sun Araw, Sonic Boom and Damo Suzuki.

Tuesday March 27
Sun Araw
Cameron Stallones began his musical career as a founding member of the experimental psychedelic rock collective Magic Lantern. Soon after, demos originally intended to light the Lantern became the first Sun Araw LP: The Phynx. Sun Araw blossomed as a solo project, walking the mind-planes from psychedelic drone to melted afrobeat, from warped dub to minimal composition. Structural and spiritual inspiration for Sun Araw comes primarily from Cameron’s first artistic love: film and filmmakers, especially those invested in the long-take. Devoted to long-form mantric music, the ethos is similar: straight lampin’ in deep focus, angle after angle on the melodic object, gaining strength from the subsequent breakdown of the illusion of fixed perspective.
Advance tickets are $12

Wednesday March 28
Sonic Boom
Sonic Boom is the alias of Pete Kember, best known as the singer-guitarist in the legendary Spacemen 3. While attending art college Kember teamed with Jason Pierce to form Spacemen 3, recording a demo tape in 1986; after signing to Glass Records, the group recorded their debut LP Sound of Confusion, for which Kember adopted the name Peter Gunn. By the time of their follow-up EP Walkin’ with Jesus, he had rechristened himself Sonic Boom, keeping the pseudonym for the duration of his career. In 1990 he issued his lone solo LP, Spectrum; after the 1991 swan song Recurring, Sonic recycled the Spectrum title as the name of his new band, which debuted with the LP Soul Kiss (Glide Divine). Sonic Boom was also the driving force behind the Experimental Audio Research project, a loose configuration of musicians which included My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields.
Advance tickets are $15

Sunday April 1
Damo Suzuki
The longtime lead vocalist for Krautrock pioneers Can, Kenji “Damo” Suzuki was born in Japan on January 16, 1950. An expatriate street poet inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, he spent the better part of the late 1960s wandering through Europe, and while busking outside a cafe in Munich in May of 1970 was discovered by Can members Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit; asked to replace the group’s former frontman Malcolm Mooney, Suzuki joined them onstage that very night, making his recorded debut later that same year on the LP Soundtracks. With Suzuki in the lineup, Can produced its most enduring and innovative work, including classic LPs like 1971′s Tago Mago, 1972′s Ege Bamayasi and 1973′s Future Days; however, upon completing work on the latter, he left the band to become a Jehovah’s Witness. Absent from music for a decade, in 1983 Suzuki began showing up unannounced to perform at shows by the band Dunkelziffer, eventually joining the group full-time and recording a pair of LPs; in 1986, he formed the Damo Suzuki Band with fellow Can alum Liebezeit on drums, Dominik von Senger on guitar, and Matthias Keul on keyboards. Four years later the group mutated to become Damo Suzuki and Friends, its loose-knit lineup playing in and around the Cologne area on a weekly basis; in 1998, he founded the Damo’s Network label, issuing a series of live recordings including V.E.R.N.I.S.S.A.G.E., Seattle and the seven-CD box set P.R.O.M.I.S.E..
Advance tickets are $12

Three show pass is $25
All shows start at 8pm
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Take a walk on the culinary wild side with a limited edition, one night only World’s Weirdest Pop-Up restaurant created by gastronaut and Food Network Canada host Bob Blumer. The pop-up coincides with the launch of Bob Blumer’s new series “World’s Weirdest Restaurants,” a 13 episode series that sees Bob visit the world’s most off-the-wall restaurants. In celebration of the launch, Bob brings several of these crazy concepts to life at for the World’s Weirdest Pop-Up at Vancouver’s Waldorf Hotel on Wed., March 28.

Come experience some of the world’s weirdest restaurant concepts firsthand with a delicious and surprising meal! Bob worked alongside Executive Chef Cesar De La Parra and Creative Director Ernesto Gomez to develop the four course menu which will be executed by the Waldorf’s kitchen team. As part of the festivities, Bob will take diners through each crazy course and provide several sneak-peeks of the new show.

“World’s Weirdest Restaurants” is a global extravaganza of off-the-wall eateries, crazy characters and extreme cuisine – all served up with side order of “weird.” Join gastronaut and host Bob Blumer on his madcap quest to find the world’s wildest and wackiest restaurants. Produced by Paperny Entertainment, “World’s Weirdest Restaurants” airs Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m. and 9:30 ET/PT starting April 4 on Food Network Canada.

6pm & 8:30pm
Tickets for this exclusive event are $38, which includes a four-course meal. Drinks, taxes, and gratuity are extra.
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