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Raghu Lokanathan
Blue Girl (independent)
When Raghu
Lokanathan traded
Prince George for
Victoria, it sounds
like he also traded his
stripped down-dude-andguitar sound for a more full
folky experience. Blue Girl,
his first full-length since
2004’s Caledonia, features
Lokanathan’s signature sharp
and often-funny songwriting—my personal favourite
in this category is “Theme
Song,” a tune about the frustrations of feeling trapped in
a small town— filled out by
Raghu Lokanathan CD Release
(with Fish and Bird)
8pm Friday, February 27
Solstice Cafe, 529 Pandora
Tickets $10 advance/$12 door
250-475-0477
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an impressive range
of instruments—
and
players.
Lokanathan himself plays
guitar, banjo, accordion and a
few other instruments, while
folks like Corwin Fox (who
produced the record with
Lokanathan), Daniel Lapp and
Dave Clarke help out with
more. It seems Lokanathan
has made himself right at
home in Victoria’s music
scene—and, if he keeps putting out records as good as
Blue Girl, we’re sure happy
to have him.
—Amanda Farrell
Elephant Island
tet of Jamie Cummins, Galen
Hartley, Marc Jenkins and Kelby
MacNayr welcome strings-andTo paraphrase a song title from horns help from Laura Clement,
Alfons Fear, Glen Manders and
this local band’s resplendent
Brooke Maxwell, all culminatnew album, this should be a
ing in EI’s most glittering and
band that needs no introduction.
fully realized release
Sadly, only the wisest
to date. The band
fans of intelligent pop
bolsters their usual
music have latched
gentle take on rootson to the stunning
pop with a bit more
works of Elephant
muscle and energy
Island. Hopefully this
to wonderful result.
disc will help win over
As the band grows in
a few more visitors to
prowess, so too do
the plush
Elephant Island CD Release
Hartley’s lyrics, turnparadise of
ing phrases so deftly
Elephant
(with Pharis and Jason Romero)
that you can’t help
Island, both
7:30pm Thursday, Feb. 26
here and
Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad but smile and go back
abroad.
Tickets $12-$15 • 250-380-1280 for repeated listens.
The quar—Bill Stuart
Don’t Say You Don’t Know What
You Want (Aaargh! Records)
The Waking Eyes
Holding on to Whatever It Is (Coalition)
It seems the Waking Eyes aren’t holding on to anything with this release, a well-crafted and varied collection of poppy rock. Holding on’s sound is all over the
map: we hear a little bit of Police-esque reggae-like
basslines in songs like the opening title track, a wailin’
’80s guitar breakdown in “Get Me to the Doctor,” and
some more tender moments courtesy of “Pick Up Your Number”
and the “Trouble on the Patio”
intro. The great thing about
Holding on is as soon as you think
you have a song figured out, the
Winnipeg foursome take the tune
in a new direction. The
The Waking Eyes
record has a bit of an oldschool arena-rock rock feel
(with the Arkells)
with a modern twist, which
7pm Saturday, February 28
can’t help but make for a
Sugar, 858 Yates
good live show.
Tickets $12 • 250-920-9950
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