Although in the music business to bomb is traditionally considered a bad thing, that’s not the case for a local indie-band which is launching its 2015 summer tour at The BOMB.
Otherwise known as the old Bank of Montreal Building in Townsite across from Dwight Hall, this venue is now operated by The Music Revolution Society and it will be rocking on Friday, July 3, as Texture & Light launches its summer tour.
“It’s a really beautiful space,” said Trevor Refix, a self-taught former DJ, vocalist for the band, and carpenter who helped build The BOMB’s stage. “It made me realize that the music scene is actually pretty great here because although [shows] may not be as frequent as they are in the city, there is a space and an audience for almost any kind of music.”
Refix loosely describes Texture & Light as “electronic dream rock.”
“It has the electronic backbone of electric drums and it’s got bass guitar and singing,” said Refix. “It’s a combination of the music I grew up listening to…all the music of my past that has touched me.”
Texture & Light’s first album, The Hard Problem of Consciousness, topped Canada’s national music chart soon after its 2013 release, when its first single, “A Quiet Place,” was selected for CBC Radio Three’s R3-30 indie rock chart.
Refix’ band, composed of wife Clare Mervyn on bass guitar and Lyell Woloschuk, also a faculty member at Powell River Academy of Music, on electronic drums, formed soon after Refix and Mervyn moved to Powell River in 2011.
Texture & Light will be playing at nine locations during its tour, landing at Kispiox Valley Music Festival, nine kilometres north of Hazelton, July 24 to 26.
For more information on the tour readers can visit the band’s website.
The July 3 show at The BOMB will also feature an opening set by DJ Kamandi and Friends, followed by two Vancouver bands: anti-flip-phone dystopian band DADA Plan and psychedelic folk rockers Colin Cowan & The Elastic Stars.
Tickets for the all-ages show are $10 at the door, with performances starting at 8 pm.
