Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

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. Friday, May 28th IMU presents A PALE BLUE, COWBOYS AND INDIANS, DANIEL HUSCROFT & The MILK PIPES @ The Railway Club, 579 Dunsmuir . Doors 9pm / Cover $10 @ the door A PALE BLUE - A Pale Blue was born in Alberta, and it shows. Though the band now hails from Vancouver, their music resonates the imagery of the prairies: the giant skies, the hard rolling earth, and the well-worn lives of those who live between. There is little nostalgic iconography at work in A Pale Blue, the conventional images of life on the plains: golden grain, noble farmers, simple living, are instead replaced with depictions of burnouts, streetwalkers, and the generally doomed. However, one cannot dismiss the music as depressive, for as it is in the unforgiving landscape that the music echoes, there is always the f... more...