Never Surrender single AVAILABLE NOW on iTunes!
As part of our Peak Performance Project showcase last September, we were asked to perform a cover of famous Canadian song, so we chose to learn the 1985 mega-hit “Never Surrender” by Montreal’s Corey Hart. Since playing it at our showcase, fans have requested the song so much that it’s now a regular feature of our set, so we decided it would be a fun experiment to do a studio recording of the song. Fortunately the Peak Performance Project gave all the Top 20 artists a $3500 grant to spend on cool stuff like hiring a producer and booking studio time, so we called up our friend Adam Sutherland (who produced/engineered our debut album) and hired him to bring the track to life. As many of you already know, we’ve
Break Out West Showcases Announced!
The BreakOut West 2010 Festival (formerly called the “Western Canadian Music Awards”) is taking place October 21-23 in Kelowna, BC and Acres Of Lions has been selected to perform at two separate showcases: Thursday, October 21 – O’Flannigan’s @ 11PM Friday, October 22 – Cush @ 7PM Other performers at the festival include: You Say Party, The Dudes, Said The Whale, The Zola’s, We Are The City, Dojo Workhorse, Vince Vacarro, and many more. You can gain access to the festival by purchasing a Festival Wristband. Festival Wristbands can be purchased at any festival venue for $20 and will allow you access to all venues for all shows for the entire weekend! (if you want to go to just one venue it’s $10 at the door) For more information, check
Listen to the Zone 91.3 FM to hear our new single!
Today at 3PM, Acres Of Lions will be on The Zone 91.3 FM in Victoria with DJ Jeremy Baker to play the band’s brand new single. For those of you not in Victoria, you can listen to The Zone’s online stream.
Peak Performance Project Voting Starts Today!
For those of you who haven’t already heard, Acres Of Lions has been involved in an amazing artist development project over the past couple months called the Peak Performance Project. The goal of the project is to help 20 musicians from British Columbia get more exposure, improve their skills, and provide them with some financial support – including a top prize of $100,500! The project started with a $3500 grant for all 20 artists, and continued through a week long band “boot camp” retreat that got the artists re-thinking their strategies about everything from songwriting to marketing. Over the course of the project the artists had to perform various showcases and challenges, and now we’ve arrived to the final component which is online voting. The voting will make up a
Preview the new Acres Of Lions single!
Want to hear a sneak preview of Acres Of Lions new single before it gets released? Just follow these simple steps to help us support the MusiCounts charity… 1. Find a camera 2. Record yourself saying “I’m ____ ____ and I support Acres Of Lions and MusiCounts” 3. Upload the video to youtube (unlisted) 4. Email the link to: musicounts@acresoflions.com We’ll send you a personalized link to where you can check out the new single! For those who don’t know, MusiCounts is an amazing organization that raises money for music programs in schools across Canada. Acres Of Lions is trying to not only raise money, but also raise awareness for what MusiCounts is doing, so we plan to take all your videos and edit them together with footage of us
Post-Rifflandia III and the fun we continue to have!
Friends! So good to see all of you this past weekend! This week we are recovering from the 3rd chapter of a Victoria-based event known as “RIFFLANDIA.” The capital letters say it all. It was immense and fantastic! The festival started 3 years ago and we have had the honor of being one of the many artists who have performed this year and last. We feel that Rifflandia is important to the Victoria community and it has certainly grown by leaps and bounds, each year it gets bigger and better, and the amount of talent it draws is simply outstanding… and not just musicians either, every artist alike attends this thing and makes it the best it can be. And this year, on Thursday, September 23rd, we were fortunate enough
Second Rifflandia Show Added!
Due to a last minute cancellation, the Rifflandia Festival has asked us to perform a second showcase tonight! This one is all-ages, so hopefully our younger fans will come out to support us! Here’s the details for both our shows… 8:30 PM – CLUB 9ONE9 (19+) w/ We Are The City, The Hounds Below, You Say Party 11:30 – VICTORIA EVENT CENTER (all-ages plus beer garden!) w/ Mike Edel, Sound & Science, Great Bloomers, Styrofoam Ones We literally got added to this second show this afternoon, so please do us a favor and spread the word to your friends on facebook and twitter. It’s going to be a little hectic playing both shows, but it should be a blast! Hope to see you there, Tyson, Jeff, Dan, Lewis
Acres Of Lions Street Team
Today we created a Facebook Group for the Acres Of Lions Street Team and we’re hoping you will join us! The idea behind the group is to single out the fans who really believe in our band and who might be willing from time to time to help us out. In exchange for your extra support we’re going to do our best to make you feel like a part of our family, so that will include stuff like giving you early concert announcements, free merch giveaways, free guestlists spots at shows, etc, etc. This whole process is very new for us, so if you have any cool ideas of things we could do to promote the band, or better incentives we could offer to get you to help us out,
“PPP Showcase #1 was AWESOMETASTIC!”
Over the last 3 years, we have played many shows, traveled many kilometers, met many people, invented many words to describe experiences that appeared to be indescribable… and the #peakpp was one of those experiences that we just had to put a word to, something different than all the other words we use, a word we will remember for years to come… and that word is AWESOMETASTIC. We had a different set tonight, a mixture of new and old songs, songs we fell in love with over time. We also included a BRAND new song we’ve been working on for the last month and an old song we’ve only performed a handful of times, clearly expressing Jeff’s passions for obscure Sci-Fi television program references. There was a moment when a
Acres Of Lions partners with MusiCounts!
We are really excited to announce that this fall Acres Of Lions is partnering with an amazing Canadian organization called MusiCounts!! The purpose of the organization is to keep under-funded music programs alive in our schools, and we are so happy to be able to be involved in helping such an amazing cause. Music shapes our lives in so many ways, and as artists it’s sad for us to think that many kids across this great country are missing out on the joy of music. Our goal is to not only raise money for the project, but also to raise awareness for what MusiCounts is doing, so that brings us to STEP 1, of our multi-step plan. STEP 1 – PEPSI REFRESH PROJECT On October 31st, Pepsi is donating $100,000
