April 17th, 2024
The Rickshaw presents
A. Savage
Mali Velasquez, Ford Pier
+19 (with 2 pieces of govt issued ID)
Also available in-store at: Red Cat Records
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DOORS: 7:00PM
Indie rock/post-punk singer-songwriter and Parquet Courts co-frontman A. Savage plays the Rickshaw this Spring with support from Mali Velasquez and Vancouver’s own Ford Pier!
A. Savage
I imagine myself playing these songs in a small club that is slowly burning,” says A. Savage of his second solo record, Several Songs about Fire. Born in 1986 in Denton, Texas and raised around the newspaper where his parents both worked, by 2012 A. Savage became a headline of his own as the co-frontman of Parquet Courts. After more than a decade in New York, Savage has left the city and the United States, marking his exit with a masterpiece of maturity and a worthy corollary to his first solo venture, 2017’s Thawing Dawn. “Fire is something you have to escape from, and in a way this album is about escaping from something. This album is a burning building, and these songs are things I’d leave behind to save myself.
Mali Velasquez
When Nashville-based singer-songwriter Mali Velasquez traded her Texas panhandle home for the verdant foothills of Tennessee, she did so with a newfound perspective that mirrored her environment, culminating in the lushly raw edge of her folk-rooted indie rock. Wistfully openhearted and incisive, Velasquez tips the fulcrum between reflection and remedy with melody-forward unction and lyrical tenderness.
Ford Pier
Vancouver fixture Ford Pier has released seven solo albums, two more with his rock band The Vengeance Trio, and another with his string quartet Strength Of Materials. He has written and arranged for symphony orchestra and chamber ensembles, had lyrics published in Geist magazine, lectured at The University Of Applied Sciences Europe in Berlin, composed electronic soundscapes for fashion shows, and recorded/toured in acts as varied as D.O.A., The Rheostatics, Roots Roundup and Veda Hille’s Band. He plays keyboards and trombone in Dead Bob.