We are very pleased to be included in this year’s Georgia Straight BEST OF VANCOUVER edition, along with some other great Vancouver bands such as Did You Die, Jay Arner, and The Jolts. Full Story
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La-Ti-Da Records Presents: The Fall Down Get Down
LA-TI-DA Records are at it again, and we are stoked! The FD/GD is a pretty exciting line up of local and out of town bands that are all packed together into one dizzying weekender. We are honoured to be playing at the last ever Pointed Sticks show at the Rickshaw Theatre, with local favourites Chains […]
The Ballantynes “Misery/Stay 7” Reviewed by The Georgia Straight!!
“Misery/Stay” (La-Ti-Da) Remember when music was recorded direct-to-tape in old-fashioned, wood-panelled studios that smelled like sweat, ratty couches, and stale cigarette smoke? Based on this fantastically analogue-sounding 7-inch, garage-soul revivalists the Ballantynes most certainly do. Some of the group’s red-lined live energy gets lost in translation here, which is to be expected considering the way […]
Check out this awesome Georgia Straight review of our show at The Cobalt this past friday!!!
The Ballantynes go above and beyond at the Cobalt! Photo by Rebecca Blissett By Mike Usinger, June 19, 2012 At the Cobalt on Friday, June 15 There are those magical nights when a band plugs in and delivers an above-and-beyond effort, signs of which include massive sweating, no shortage of clever stage banter, heavy drinking, […]
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