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Nov 11, 2009
Free Double Dance Fall Sampler
Acres Of Lions song “Let’s Get Sentimental” is featured on alternative music/lifestyle magazine Double Dance‘s brand new Fall Sampler. To download the free sampler that also inlcudes tracks from Aidan Knight, Jon and Roy, A Textbook Tragedy and more, visit: http://doubledance.ca/artists/fall-sampler/ >> read more
Nov 5, 2009
Zone Show #192
Our friends in the Victoria band Armchair Cynics are throwing a CD Release Party next Saturday (Nov 14) at Sugar Nightclub and they were nice enough to invite us and Vince Vacarro to share the night with them. Armchair cynics new album is called “Starting Today”, and it’s available now online and in stores across Canada. Local radio station The Zone 91.3 FM are presenting the show as Zone Show #192 so tune in next week for your chance to win some free tickets! For those who want to buy tickets the old fashioned way, tickets available at Lyle’s Place (Yates St) for $12. >> read more
Nov 3, 2009
New Music Video for Dance Sequence!
The music video we shot this past September for the song Dance Sequence is finished and has been added to the Much Music library! You can watch it on the Much Music website at the following link… http://watch.muchmusic.com/video-playlists/video-playliststhe-wedge/clip229244#clip229244 The video was shot in an abandoned building in Vancouver’s lower east side, and features some amazing breakdancers from the Now or Never Crew. If you’d like to help us get it played on Much Music, please email or call in (1-800-265-6824) your requests! Special thanks to Brian Dutkewich and Angela Kendall from Transmission2 for making this video happen. >> read more
Oct 20, 2009
Hallowfest – All Ages Halloween Bash!
It’s less than two weeks until Halloween, so we wanted to remind everyone that this year Acres Of Lions is part of a super fun all-ages Halloween Party called Hallowfest that’s happening at Saanich Commonwealth Place. The doors will be open from 7 PM – 11PM on October 31st, and in addition to bands there will be a bunch of fun games to play: Horizontal Bungee, SUMO SUITS, BIG SCREEN Rock Band, Wii GAMES room, etc. There will also be a bunch of amazing free prizes given away – some of the stuff the promoters gave away at last years’ event included an iPod Touch, skateboard decks, and a Nintendo Wii – so some of you are definitely going to get hooked up! Tickets are available for $10 presale (available >> read more
Oct 16, 2009
Summer Tour Photo Collage
We’re still working on editing together the last episode or two of video footage from our cross Canada tour in August/September, but in the meantime we’ve got a video collage of still photos we took while we were on the road. Many of the photos included are of bands that we played shows and/or partied with including: Mapping The Escape, AM Glory, Brights, The Artist Life, Everyone Everywhere, The Junction, Zachary Lucky, Breaching Vista, and Immaculate Machine. The song in the video is “This was not my Best Day Ever” from our debut album “Working“. >> read more