CKLU Presents The Boo Radley Project wsg The Celebration Army

CKLU Presents
Friday June 1st at The Asylum

THE BOO RADLEY PROJECT (Elora)
https://www.facebook.com/BooRadleyProject/
https://thebooradleyproject.bandcamp.com/releases
Hailing from Elora/Guelph ON, The Boo Radley Project is an eight piece (and sometimes larger depending on who is in town) genre-bending collective that fuses funk, indie, jazz and literary prowess. They’ve been likened to everyone from Tower of Power and Mr. Bungle to The Cat Empire and Wilco. But really, they’re just Boo, a ragtag group of brothers serving up a quirky, fresh approach to music. Their live shows are high energy featuring an eclectic mix of instrumentation from electric mandolin to a three piece brass section. In addition to the music, the band uses projections to compliment the live performance, creating an immersive, sensory experience. The band has extensively toured in Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes and Newfoundland and has played festival stages at Hillside Festival, Halifax Pop Explosion and Riverfest Elora. Their long-awaited debut LP Bred To Be Loyal was released in June 2017 and featured on CBC Radio 1. They also want you to know they had a baby dolphin named after them. It’s called Boo and is swimming somewhere off the shores of Hawaii.

“I HAVE A HARD TIME PUTTING MY FINGER ON WHAT THIS BAND IS … IT’S DEFINITELY ECLECTIC, BUT IT’S ALSO REALLY INTERESTING.” – CBC Radio

THE CELEBRATION ARMY (Toronto)
http://www.thecelebrationarmy.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheCelebrationArmy/
Ever wonder where the groove went? It enlisted in The Celebration Army….All of it.

The Celebration Army’s music strongly harkens to the golden ages of classic rock and R n B (and even to a raw, dirty sort of funk that people tend to keep a naughty secret). Listen to songs like “Black Blue Jeans” and you’ll experience a stylistic breadth that takes listeners all the way from frenetic rock to ingenious hooks to driving funk and back again. The Celebration Army grooves in a way that justifies excessive sweating, oddly moist lips, and ugly grimaces of musical hypnosis. Better yet, they give reviewers a chance to write things that would normally be too vague for publication: Troy Larabie lays it down with insanely tight drum work that is also delicious and crispy; Leandro Motta’s bass playing is a massive, slippery eel of funk that somehow sounds right at home in a band that is not really a funk band. But it’s always better to be specific: Oliver Pigott’s powerful and technically stunning voice comes as a great sonic relief in a rock epoch typified by indie singers whose style is best described as vocal ennui; Nelson Sobral’s guitar work is a masterclass not only in playing with artful restraint, but also in tone craft,he is never pretentious but pulls out every sweet, warm overdrive tone that has ever existed.

Live at The Asylum – 19 Regent St – Sudbury, Ontario
$10 cover – 19+/Licensed Event – 9PM