Break Out West: Wild nights and wonderful friends I’ve always pictured this, a festival in a familiar town, in our province, an abundance of great performances all at once, friends on every corner, the celebration and comraderie that comes with an event such as this. It definitely happened, and we came into it confident and ready, barely containing our excitment. A weekend of this magnitude truly has no words. Anything I would use to describe would just understate it (scrumtrulescent) But what I WILL say is that we left with a new found inspiration, new heads on our shoulders, and a memory of something fullfilled within us. We left early Thursday morning, October 21st. I had slept for 3 hours due to the anticipation of the trip, as always, trying >> read more

Often times on tour we’ve heard the term “Best Band Of Beards” in relation to our band’s lack of shaving skills. This coming month of November, we hope to substitute that for “Best Band Of Moustaches”! Explanation: a few weeks back, our friends at local radio station The Zone 91.3 FM in Victoria asked us to join their Movember team, to not only grow amazing moustaches, but also to raise money for a manly cause: prostate cancer research. Monday, November 1st at 3PM tune into The Zone 91.3 FM to hear a serious shaving event. This will include our very own bass player Dan Ball getting his giant beard shaved, along with other Acres Of Lions members and fellow rocker Vince Vaccaro. It’s all for charity, so we hope that >> read more

As some of you tech savvy folks might already know, Apple recently launched a new social media platform within the iTunes application called “Ping”. They’ve just started rolling out artist profiles, and we’re happy to report that the Acres Of Lions profile is now up and running. Everyone who has ever bought a CD on iTunes already has a Ping profile, so simply login to iTunes and FOLLOW US! >> read more

Thanks to everyone who attended our MusiCounts Benefit concert this past Tuesday at Lucky Bar! Especially Lindsay Bryan, Sound and Science, and Bells and Cannons who so kindly volunteered their time and music for this great cause. Between the money collected at the door, the donation jar on our merch table, and the t-shirts we sold ($5 from every sale was donated) we managed to raise $500 for MusiCounts! This money will go directly to MusiCounts Band Aid Program, that grants money to needy schools across Canada so that they can purchase new instruments for their students. Also, for those of you who were unable to attend the concert, Acres Of Lions has set up a special paypal account that allows you to donate money towards our MusiCounts campaign. All >> read more

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 >> read more