Meet a member of our creative community. Marc Godfey is the frontman of Post Punk Goth band the Vampire Bats. You can catch Marc Godfrey DJing Dark Hits every month at The Shadow Line 80′s Goth Night.

Hello my name is…
Marc Godfrey.

At the Waldorf I…
DJ The Shadow Line and keep things Gothy.

When I’m not at the Waldorf I am…
recording artists with no money.

My favourite things about Vancouver are…
the summer, the trees, the mountains and the water. Also, the delicious and cheap Chinese food.

My favourite Vancouver bands are…
Dandi Wind Opaine, Petroleum By Product and Eye Candys.

The last book I read was…
Hanussen by Mel Gordon.

My spirit animal is…
best served slow roasted.

My dream Jeopardy category is…
“Victorian Orphanage Statistics”.

I never leave home without…
my pants on.

If you’re buying drinks, I will have…
A Crantini.

www.secretagentrecords.com

We’re introducing passes that give you access to all of our in-house produced shows for the month. Your pass includes VIP entry (no line!) and access to the following shows:

Thursday March 1 | Kids and Explosions | Details Here
Friday March 2 | Nobunny with Indian Wars | Details Here
Saturday March 3 | Robot Koch with Self Evident and Monolithium | Details Here
Saturday March 3 | Kingdom, Total Freedom and Massacooramaan | Details Here
Wednesday March 7 | Ganglians with A Classic Education | Details Here
Friday March 9 | Lazer Sword, Salva, Nguzunguzu and Expendable Youth | Details Here
Saturday March 10 | Memoryhouse with Seapony | Details Here
Saturday March 10 | Midnight City with Marc Kinchen
Friday March 16 | Dirt Crew presents Pezzner
Friday March 16 | YOLO Launch with Cameron Reed and Prison Garde | Details Here
Saturday March 17 | Cherchez and Co. and Endless Summer
Friday March 23 | Babylon
Saturday March 24 | Hunx and his Punx with Heavy Cream and White Lung | Details Here
Saturday March 24 | Chrissy Murderbot with Max Ulis
Thursday March 29 | The Coathangers with White Mystery | Details Here
Saturday March 31 | Sepalcure, Machinedrum and Michael Red | Details Here

More to be announced!

Passes for March are $50
Purchase Monthly Passes here

Passes will be available for pick up starting on March 1st from 11am-5pm. To claim your pass, bring your receipt to the Waldorf’s Front Desk. Passes can also be purchased from the Front Desk. Please contact frontdesk@waldorfhotel.com or call 604.253.7141 with any questions.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it! Join us in the Tiki Bar this Thursday Leisure Rules, a reading week party! With DJs Cherchez La Femme and A-Shae.

Doors at 10pm
Admission is $8
Facebook event page

Back by popular demand! Hunx and His Punx might be the first ever “girl group” fronted by a flamboyant gay male whose dream in life is to sound like a girl. They have created a unique new sound they refer to as “Young Oldies,” a mixture of 50s teenage rock ‘n’ roll, 60s girl groups and bubblegum pop. Hunx has a new solo album coming out on February 28th on Hardly Art. For this tour, the Punx will consist of Justin Champlin (aka Nobunny) on guitar, Shannon Shaw (Shannon & The Clams) on bass and Erin Emslie on drums.

With garage punks Heavy Cream from Nashville and local favourite White Lung.

Doors at 8pm
Advance tickets are $12
Purchase advance tickets here
Facebook event page

Ryeberg Curated Video is coming to Vancouver for its first live show outside Toronto. Four writers will take the stage to give short talks about the YouTube videos that inspire them. It’s Ryeberg.com, offline, on stage, live! Ryeberg Live Vancouver 2012 will feature performances by Miriam Toews (bestselling author of A Complicated Kindness and Irma Voth), Charles Demers (stand-up comedian, author of Vancouver Special), Michael Turner (poet, critic, and author of Hard Core Logo and The Pornographer’s Poem), and Stephen Osborne (publisher of Geist Magazine and author of Ice & Fire: Dispatches From The New World). The evening will be hosted by Ryeberg Editor-In-Chief, Erik Rutherford.

Doors at 7pm
Advance tickets are $10
Purchase advance tickets here

On Saturday March 31, Vancouver’s Very Own presents an evening with Sepalcure and Machinedrum.

Sepalcure (Brooklyn)
Sepalcure’s combination of love for bass and 90s house acapellas is the culmination of a cathartic two week collaboration between Machinedrum and Praveen. Their mix of tribal dub, house and two step beats works equally well for both late nights in the club and rainy, introspective nights at home. Detroit techno chords cut through wooden beats, neon synths and dubbed out atmospherics.
www.sepalcure.com

Machinedrum (Berlin)
Machinedrum has produced and composed several albums under various aliases since his first independent release in 1999. Covering an astonishing variety of styles with ease, he has always been a trailblazer – bridging the gap between genres that would otherwise never have met before. A true electronic music Renaissance man, Machinedrum blends together current pop music standards and trends with his own extensive knowledge of experimental production techniques, delivering his quality signature on every thing he touches.
www.machinedrum.net

With Michael Red

Doors at 10pm
Advance tickets are $12
Purchase advance tickets here
Facebook event page

While Robot Koch performs in the Cabaret, join us in the Hideaway for three great Fade To Mind artists Kingdom, Total Freedom and Massacooramaan!

Kingdom
Los Angeles-based DJ / producer Kingdom rose to public acclaim with his debut single “Mind Reader” (released on Fool’s Gold in early 2010), a collaboration with big-voiced NYC diva Shyvonne. But even before “Mind Reader,” Kingdom had been deeply involved in Bok Bok & Lvis-1990′s London-based Night Slugs collective, having had his European debut at their second-ever club night. It was his mixtapes that first alerted Night Slugs’ attention. His debut 2006 mixtape fused grime, crunk, US club, and house with his unique adaptations of R&B vocals. On his debut Night Slugs EP That Mystic, Kingdom delivered five tracks that reference many of the aforementioned genres, but also posses a completely individual, otherworldly gleam. Kingdom now represents a leading force in a new generation of American bass producers.
www.kkingdomm.com

Total Freedom
Los Angeles’ Total Freedom is a bit of an unsung hero, one of those figures who seems to have his hand in just about every cool event in the City of Angels. He puts his skills on display with a new mixtape for Opening Ceremony. Granted, it’s not a listen for the faint of heart, as he fearlessly traverses grime, R&B, new age, drum & bass, hardstyle, and tropical bass, not to mention a litany of indefinable points in between.

OC Mixtape Series #11: Total Freedom Mix by OpeningCeremony

Massacooramaan
Massacooramaan aka Dave Quam is a writer, photographer, producer, and DJ whose work has appeared in XLR8R, The Wire, DJ Magazine, and Shook Mag to name a few. His blog, It’s After the End of the World, is one of the seminal portals into the kaleidoscopic regional/global bass sounds of yesterday and today. He’s recently relocated back to his hometown of Portland from Chicago, where he extensively documented and participated in the Windy City’s vibrant Juke/Footwork scene. He is also the newest member of LA-based label Fade to Mind, who will be releasing his debut EP this spring.
www.davequam.wordpress.com

Doors at 10pm
Admission is $12
Facebook event page

YOLO is a new monthly party in the Hideaway at the Waldorf Hotel curated by Cameron Reed AKA Babe Rainbow (Warp Records). Rap music and other danceables with rotating local guests and friends from out of town (Grimes, d’Eon, CFCF, Blood Diamonds, Teen Daze). On Friday March 16, Cameron will be joined by Prison Garde, the latest incarnation of electronic music monolith Vaughn Robert Squire. A man of many monikers and creative outlets, with a well celebrated history that spans multiple eras and genres of music (as Megasoid, Sixtoo, Villain Accelerate, and S&N to name a few).

Doors at 10pm
Admission is $12
Facebook event page

This Friday at Babylon…

Live Rock N Roll ★ Tropidelica ★ Tiki Bar Dance Party

★ Live Rock N Roll ★
Negative Nights presents four bands from three countries at one great show!

The Feeling of Love (France)
Meercaz (Oakland)
Little Queenie (Oakland)
Sex Church (Vancouver)
With DJs Bryce Dunn and Justin Gradin

★ Tropidelica ★
A Latin Disco edition of the Famous and Fantastic Tropidelica! Take in alluring and exotic sounds at the city’s only alternative Latin Cabaret Night. Featuring the masters of the Cumbia rhythm, Operacion: Bikini (Mr. Pablo, Kut Gomez and El Garzita). As always, there’ll be tons of surprises like the hottest go go dancing chicas and our notorious electric shock machine!

★ Tiki Bar Dance Party ★
DJ Andrew Andrew Andrew playing the best party jams!

Doors at 9pm
Admission $12 before 10pm. $15 afterwards.
Facebook event page

Meet a member of our creative community. Negative Nights is an events promotion company that frequently does events at the Waldorf. They’ll be presenting four bands this Friday at Babylon and Nobunny on Friday March 2.

Hello my name is…
Negative Nights.

At the Waldorf I…
book the odd show.

When I’m not at the Waldorf I am…
putting out records on my label, Sweet Rot.

My favourite things about Vancouver are…
the summer, the trees, the mountains and the water. Also, the delicious and cheap Chinese food.

My favourite Vancouver bands are…
Sex Church and Defektors.

The last book I read was…
The Prize by Daniel Yergin. Can’t stop reading non-fiction.

My spirit animal is…
a pug!

My dream Jeopardy category is…
“Physics” or “Punk 7″s 1977-2012″.

I never leave home without…
my wallet.

If you’re buying drinks, I will have…
a super hoppy IPA.

www.facebook.com/negativenights
www.myspace.com/sweetrotrecords
www.sweetrotrecords.bandcamp.com

Have a look at Graham Landin’s Painting 200 show that’s currently on display in the Black and Yellow Gallery. Show runs until Monday February 27.

Facebook event page

Negative Nights is pleased to welcome back to Vancouver, Oakland’s own amphetamine fueled humanoid rabbit, the mighty Nobunny! Touring to support his “First Blood” LP on Goner Records, Nobunny returns to the city he loves so much for the first time in over a year to lay down some of the catchiest bubblegum pop/punk we’ve ever heard. And if you’ve never seen a practically naked grown man dressed in a disheveled bunny mask while frantically running around and singing punk songs, well then you really haven’t lived! With Indian Wars and DJs Bryce Dunn and Dale Davies.

Doors at 10pm
Admission is $12 before 11. $15 afterwards.
Facebook event page

Come get down with resident DJ Cherchez La Femme and friends every Saturday in the Hideaway. Non-stop dance hall, rap, club bangers and more! This week Cherchez welcomes special guest Genie.

Doors at 10pm
Admission is $12
Facebook event page

The Famous and Fantastic Tropidelica! Take in alluring and exotic sounds at the city’s only alternative Latin Cabaret Night. Featuring the masters of the Cumbia rhythm, Operacion: Bikini (Mr. Pablo, Kut Gomez and El Garzita). As always, there’ll be tons of surprises like the hottest go go dancing chicas and our notorious electric shock machine!

Doors at 10pm
Admission is $12 before 11 // $15 afterwards
Facebook event page

Friday February 17

Babylon ★ Live Rock N Roll ★ Late Night Dance Party
The Bleating Hearts are an 8-piece Indie Rock orchestra and they’ll be releasing their debut LP at this party which you can purchase for only $5! Bleating Hearts will be joined by surf garage rock outfit Korean Gut as well as Shawn Mrazek Lives! After the show, party till the wee hours with The Stars of Babylon Dance Troupe, “The Wild Child” Mandy-Lyn, Andrew Andrew Andrew and much more.
Details

Saturday February 18

I Love Wu Party
A night dedicated to the Wu-Tang Clan. Headlined by Dj Symphony, the official DJ for Ghostface Killah and Raekwon.
Details

Egyptian Lover
The West Coast Electro Legend performs an intimate DJ set in the Hideaway at Cherchez & Co.
Details

Endless Summer
Rock, Garage and Surf classics courtesy of the Amigos.
Details

Join us Saturday February 25 from an evening with Lighta! in the Cabaret. This event will feature three Live PAs from Daega Sound, Michael Red and Max Ulis. DJ Tusk will be behind the decks to start the evening off right. In the Hideaway, join us for Tyber Dhula of Cobblestone Jazz and Wagon Repair. With Cedric and Scott W spinning opening sets.

Doors at 10pm
Admission is $12
Facebook event page

Babylon is the Waldorf Hotel’s new Friday night event. Here is your chance to experience it all!

Dance Party ★ Performance ★ Sleaze ★ Spectacle

Every Friday, the Waldorf Hotel presents a classic multiroom nightclub experience like no other. Hosted by comedians Paul Anthony and El Garzita, this weekly event also features the Stars of Babylon go-go dance troupe, incredible party DJs, live Rock N Roll, extraordinary cabaret acts and other unexpected pleasures.

Winner Receives
-Dinner for two at the Waldorf’s Nuba Cafe
-Admission for two to Babylon
-A night’s stay in the Waldorf Hotel

The Stars of Babylon are the Waldorf’s Go Go Dancers. Come see them shake their stuff every Friday night at Babylon, our Rock n Roll Dance party.

Julia

Kayleigh

Scarlett

Manda

Abby

Photography by Alan Chan. Hair and Make-Up by Barbarella.

Babylon ★ Live Rock N Roll ★ Late Night Dance Party

Join us Friday at Babylon for the Bleating Hearts Live and a Late Night Dance Party.

★ Live Rock N Roll ★
The Bleating Hearts are an 8-piece Indie Rock orchestra and they’ll be releasing their debut LP at this party which you can purchase for only $5! Bleating Hearts will be joined by surf garage rock outfit Korean Gut as well as Shawn Mrazek Lives!

Listen to the Bleating Hearts Album Here

★ Late Night Dance Party ★
The Stars of Babylon Dance Troupe, “The Wild Child” Mandy-Lyn, Andrew Andrew Andrew and much more.

Hosted by The Waldorf’s ambassador of good taste, El Garzita.

Doors at 8pm
Admission $8 before 10:30pm. $12 afterwards.
Facebook event page

After Haram perform in the Cabaret, join us in the Tiki Bar as Hyaenas share a soundtrack to their lives. Expect a Middle Eastern-influenced dance party as Hyaenas (of Basketball fame) playing a mix of Persian Bandari, Turkish Pysche, Saidi, Palestinian Dabka, Gnawa and more!

About A Soundtrack To My Life
A Soundtrack To My Life is a weekly party featuring some of the most interesting people in our city and the music that they love in our Tiki Bar. The event is hosted by Natasha Lands (aka Cherchez La Femme), who will also be Djing throughout the evening.

Tiki Bar opens at 8pm // Soundtrack To My Life starts at 10pm
Admission is free