Party: The Resignators (AUS), Raygun Cowboys (Edmtn), Class Action - Thursday April 30th

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Party: The Resignators (AUS), Raygun Cowboys (Edmtn), Class Action - Thursday April 30th

Stomp Records and Nite Owl Presents:
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*THE RESIGNATORS (Australia)
*RAYGUN COWBOYS (Edmonton)
*CLASS ACTION (Calgary)
Thursday April 30th, 2015
@ Nite Owl
Doors 8:30pm
$13 adv/ $16 door
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The Resignators
https://www.facebook.com/theresignators/timeline
https://theresignators.bandcamp.com

A Psychoska band from Melbourne, Australia.

Born from the death of many local bands and named after a RX Bandits album The Resignators are known amongst locals as 'The Band From The Spencer Street Dunnies'.

While it may seem unusual for an Australian band to play ska (for the uninitiated, ska was the precursor to reggae) it is actually quite natural. It was Australians living in Jamaica in the early 1960’s, a band called the Caribs, that played on 90% of the first ska hits (largely un-credited as a studio house band at Ken Khoury’s Federal Studios and Coxone Dodd’s Studio One), and most early ska was engineered by Aussie Graeme Goodall, co-founder of Island Records!

The Resignators are mainly known as a ska band, but the band brings a wide variety of other influences to their music, as the members come from diverse backgrounds and decades. Band members run the gamut of innocence to experience with an astounding 40 year span between the oldest and youngest! It is appropriate that The Resignators sound is an amalgam of musical styles, because the original ska in Jamaica was also a mongrel mix – of jazz, rockabilly, and jump blues heard on US radio, combined with the native mento or calypso.
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Raygun Cowboys
https://www.facebook.com/raygun.cowboys
http://www.rayguncowboys.com

Raygun Cowboys are a Psychobilly rock n roll band from Edmonton Canada. The Cowboys play high energy Badass rockabilly that gets people on the dance floor from the first to last song. The band started in 2000 playing local shows and quickly became the go to band to support touring acts. In 2005 the Cowboys released their first recordings on the Zombie Night in Canada 2 compilation and released their debut Underworld Boogie in 2006. Fallowing this the band did two tours of western Canada and In 2007 added a horn section to the traditional 3 piece rockabilly line up.The addition of a Trumpet and Trombone to the line up gave the band a unique sound thats gained them rave reviews everywhere they played. In 2008 the Rayguns recorded a new album and signed a deal with Stumble Records, they fallowed this with two tours of Canada in 2009. Over the past four years the band has also played some of the best festivals in Canada including North Country Fair, Folk on the Rocks, Beaumont Blues Fest, Hotrod Hootenanny and the Salmon Arm Blues and roots festival. In 2010 the Rayguns did a three week tour of Europe in the fall gaining them new fans from all over the continent. In 2011 the band backed up rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson at the Edmonton folk festival and began recording their third full length album in the fall. The band recently did a west coast tour of the United States and played the Ink n Iron Festival in long beach California.
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Class Action
https://www.facebook.com/classactionband?_rdr
http://classactionska.ca

Since 2006, Class Action has helped keep Calgary's ska scene alive with a blend of music rooted in third wave ska-punk with shades of reggae and dub mixed in. Having shared the stage with such acts as The Aggrolites, Bedouin Soundclash, The Flatliners, The English Beat, Mad Caddies, Gob, Skampida, Rude City Riot, Skavenjah and illScarlett, they have become known for their high energy performances and beats that make you want to dance! 2007 saw the release of their first EP, "I'd Rather Be Skankin" followed by a contribution to the Ska 4 Life Compilation series in 2009. In June 2010, they released their self-titled first full length album. In July of 2011, Class Action embarked on their first ever tour, the 2011 Skapocalypse Tour with fellow Calgary band Blue Bones playing 9 shows in 11 days in BC and Alberta. The band released their second EP in July of 2012 entitled "An Extra Bar of the Wrong Song".

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