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30 June, 2010

        Thanks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much to all the awesome people who came out to our very reasonable $5 show this past saturday at The Princeton Pub! Aside from being hit on by older drunken lesbian regulars and having the big-gunned doorman Joe continuously remind me that I couldn't be sipping my drink while working the door, it was wonderful to meet so many new people as well as seeing all those oh-so familiar friendly faces!       

               We have another "cheapy" night coming up this weekend at The West Bar on 488 Carrall St. in Gastown. We are hoping the door will either be $5 or $8 and we will be performing around 10:30-11:00pm.   I look forward to meeting all ya'll new fans out there as well as some potential conversationlists who don't mind me rambling about my kitties... ah lub' dem.

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Katie Van Olsen

 











20 June, 2010

                     Just when you thought you were set by coming out this saturday to the Princeton Pub, we go ahead and book a Fundraising Art Exhibit event for Ocean Roots. If you have the craving for a walk down to one of THE radest little studios in Vancouver on a beautiful thursday City evening, we will be perforing two brief 20 minute sets after nine pm on June 24th at Beaumont Studios. The art will be exhibited all day long with videos providing insight on how we are impacting our oceans and its inhabitants; opening our minds to discussion and expanding our thoughts to more global issues that can be helped locally.     but, if loving our music and art in general is not a good enough reason, knowing that every cd you buy from us and The Beveled Edges , %100 of the proceeds will go towards The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society; a non-profit marine wildlife conservation organization dedicated to protecting and conserving ocean species and ecosystems.

       THEN you should come party with us on saturday evening at The Princeton! Like I said before, $5 cover and cheap drinks +rad music=FUN FUN FUN! doesn't get much better than this!  

 See you all there!

(heart)
Katie Van Olsen








7 June, 2010

   I would formally like to thank EVERYONE who has supported us with the Fox SEEDS voting this year! We could not have reached over  four thousand page views and songs plays without all of your help!   Although we did not make the top 50, we got a lot of positive feedback from new friends/fans.   This small opportunity for promotion has kicked us into high gear;  We now have the HOTTEST booking manager in town,  soon to be hooking us up with the sweetest bills and very plenty of them in the near future.   woop woop!!!

          As well,  we'd like to thank everyone that supported our quest on becoming part of the PEAK performance project.  Despite not being the chosen 20 out of 450+  bands/musicians/singer,songwriters in BC, our good friend Christopher Arruda from Nanaimo has been hand-picked to partake. He is a wonderful person and a very talented musician who deserves all the suport and attention anyone needs to win the big prize money of $150,000! So be sure to buy his cd, get a t-shirt, watch him live and vote for him on the PEAK when it comes time.

NOW, as I'm sure ALL of you are curious about is our next show! Yes it is at The Princeton Pub and yes it is on June 26th we will be graciously opening up the evening for Lemming Dynasty and The Quiet Kids. the show will be a reasonable cost and end at a reasonable time.     come on out and grab some cheap beer with us and party!



(Heart)
Katie








17 May, 2010

           WELL WELL WELL...... hope you've all been keeping well. We're good. Actually, SO GOOD in fact that we want to personally invite you, yes YOU, to the Bottle Tipper THIS SATURDAY (May 22nd) where we will be performing with Christopher Arruda (formerly from Open, Parachute!) and Timmy P (NINJASPY). I assume tickets should be no more than ten bones, but feel free to pay more if you love us that much ; )

   And as I'm sure you have all seen on facebook, twitter, from our own lips and NOW HERE,  we have recently entered into the FOX SEEDS contest. BUT we can't actually get into the contest unless YOU create a seeds fan profile and vote for us to get into the TOP 50!  http://cfox.supernova.com/signup/fan so pretty, pretty please, take an extra 5-10 minutes from your day and help us get into this thing! you can vote once a day, everyday until June 7th. BUT you can only make one profile per IP address (laaaaame,...)  so sorry to everyone who lives in a communal house.. make a group profle, tell your friends, get your grandparents involved, (we're PG  enough for them).

Don't Forget to check out the acoustic track we've posted on YouTube,  and tell us if you like it, if you think we should make more, if you think matt should cut his hair... you know.

<3
Kate








6 April, 2010

                                                       there's a minor change in line-up for April 23 @ The Railway Club

       Alouette Lake and Palmer will be Opening up the evening of good music followed by Quiet Kids, YOURS TRULY and then Bad Fate to rock out the evening!          As many of you Vancouverites know, The Railway Club is a very small and awkward venue, so your best bet to catch the entire show is to come early to pre-drink and "shop" at our merch table!       We still have little photo cards available for FREE.99 and an assortment of custom/home-made Painted Cities t-shirts for $15. We also have our "First Coat" cd available by donation or favour (if you feel like buying us poor musicians a bevy...)

   THE NEW CD UPDATE: We dropped off the artwork at DMA last monday and are awaiting the proofs. Tonight I am going over to Sol's to hear the masters!!!  I can pretty much garantee this Self-titled album wil be WELL worth the wait!!

     ALSO: Painted Cities now has a Twitter account. This is the best way to keep informed on what the band is doing, without taking up too much time out of your busy day!    twitter.com/PaintedCities


  So in the words of Treky-lolcat: Livs long and prospurr!!!

(heart) Katie


                               




8 March, 2010

SSSSSSssssooooooooooooooooooooooooooo......................  Painted Cities will be having a show. FINALLY!  

Feel free to schedule yourself to come out to The Railway Club on April 23rd and listen to US (Painted Cities, duh) along with Free City Collective and Quiet Kids and discover that good song writing and indie music does exist in Vancouver!

For reals naow though, we are like thiiiiiiiss close to being all done with the new mixes. I CAN FREAKING TASTE IT! With a little bit more patience, some further donations from our pockets and we should be seeing this "Album"we've been talking about for the past year a bit sooner than you'd think. (which will still be later than we had originally hoped for)     I guess the saying most appropriate here would be "better late than never", eh?

      PLUG**Indie/pop-rock band Painted Cities play @ The Railway Club in Vancouver,  on Friday April 23rd**PLUG
eehhhh.....
Cheers

Painted Cities







18 January, 2010

                                                                HAPPY NEW YEAR WORLD!

A new decade, a  new beginning......
                            we are in the process of re-creating our website, slowly but surely planning out a quick two week tour of a few provinces, mixing our tracks, finalizing the artwork for our album and rehearsing our butts off non-stop.

SOOOOO.... I know this album of our has been a long time coming, but i must reassure you all, that it will be WELL worth the wait. With the amazing recorded tracks we did with Geraldo Dominelli at Mushroom and Cobweb studios, we are able to get the mixes  nearer to the finish line. WOOT WOOT!  

                 
                                      Pssstt!!: The Purple Crab exists no more, so no acoustic show if ya' came here looking fer one. keep posted                                                           for future shows and updates on our progress with the cd!
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Painted Cities