Fleabane, Boss Saint B and Exit 14

Event Description

FLEABANE
FAST AND SWEATY PSYCH-PUNK FROM CANADA'S NORTH
What do you get if you combine a Backstreet Boys fan on the drums, a classically trained vocalist and composer on the bass, and an accomplished metal bass player on the guitar? Fleabane: a psych-punk power trio, obviously.
Fleabane draws their influence from across the music world, and with over 40 years of combined playing and recording experience, their live shows are frantic and captivating.
Boss Saint B is a genre-defying music project rooted in ritual, resistance and embodied power. Originally from Saint Boniface, Manitoba and now based on Vancouver Island, Boss Saint B is the musical persona of Britt Candide Small, an artist known for blending ferocity, humour and presence into work that feels less like a concert and more like an invocation. Driven by propulsive beats, theatricality and unapologetic lyricism, Boss Saint B creates performances where desire, rage, laughter and tenderness coexist.

The project sits at the intersection of pop, punk, spoken word and ceremony: playful and confrontational in equal measure, with hooks that invite the body in while challenging inherited narratives around power, gender, authority and shame. Britt Candide Small is the founder and leader of the award-winning theatre company Atomic Vaudeville, based on the West Coast of Canada, and has an extensive background in live performance, collective creation and physical theatre. She also teaches acting, movement and clown to performers, informing Boss Saint B’s highly embodied, relational approach to music-making.

Boss Saint B has opened for Peaches on a world tour and for Jimbo the Drag Clown, and has performed at numerous festivals across British Columbia, as well as in unconventional spaces including studio openings, theatre festivals, and site-specific events. The project is currently developing new recordings and live work that continue to blur the line between concert, ritual and uprising.

Exit 14 is a youth pop-punk trio from Victoria playing on of their first shows!