Two Apple Tobacco

Ring in the new year with Zappa and Zeppelin! We’ll be opening for Zeppelina, Canada’s only all female tribute to Led Zeppelin, at VanMusic’s End of the Year Party on December 30, 2011. The show will be back at one of our favourite new venues: The British Ex-Servicemen Association Club (1143 Kingsway, Vancouver) – which is cool ’cause they have free pool and $2 BEER. What more could you want on a New Year’s Eve’s Eve?

Join the facebook event here; and while you’re waiting, why not check out

a sneak preview from our new album

and our newly updated YouTube Channel!

Looking forward to our performance at The Waldorf on December 15 with Redrick Sultan and Man Your Horse. Redrick Sultan will be releasing a new music video, so you won’t want to miss this one. And as a very special holiday treat: we have a NEW SONG to premiere!

Check out the facebook event HERE.

We’re back at the British Legion (1143 Kingsway) Friday Nov 18 for Volume 5 of the Indie Pop Vancouver Series. We’ll be playing with The Rain and The Sidewalk and Redrick Sultan, so it should be an awesome show!

VanMusic, CITR and the British Ex-Servicemen Association are pioneering this AWESOME new live music venue – SO COME SUPPORT IT. The place boasts $2 BEER, free pool, cheap munchies, a dance floor and, OF COURSE, a few larger-than-life Legion regulars to spice up your night. We need more places like this to rock out on a Friday night. $5 cover. Don’t miss out!

We just finished a great 3-day recording session at The Hive!

We recorded 15 TRACKS (2 full albums’ worth) and the mixing has already begun. Look for the results soon! While you’re waiting, check out some…

photos from the session!

and our sneak-preview rough mix:

Squinter’s Paradise

Our vocalist and flautist Courtney Lancaster has been selected to be part of the Soulpepper Theatre Academy – one of the most prestigious theatre companies in Canada. Congratulations Courtney! She’ll be in Toronto for the next while so we’ll be performing here without her, but don’t miss her on our upcoming release Squinter’s Paradise – featuring a STUNNING vocal solo in the title track! (If we do say so ourselves…)

Hey! We’re back at The Penthouse May 15 with Radio Nation.

This will be our last gig with the incredible Courtney Lancaster for the next few months while she theatre-gig’s-it-up in the big TO (Congratulations Courtney!). It will be a night of fun, fun and more fun so don’t miss out!

and don’t forget to check out our awesome

HD videos on YouTube!

That’s right! Two Apple Tobacco returns to The Princeton Pub Thursday March 17 for a very special St. Patrick’s Day Party and Concert!

We’ll be performing alongside awesome local bands Boobytrap and The New Normal, and we’ve got an extra-crazy St. Patty’s Day medley planned so it should be an exciting show. Drink specials, dancing and drunken debauchery.

Don’t forget to wear green!

Thanks to everyone who came out to Nyala last night! We had an incredible show, featuring a rockin’ performance of Squinter’s Paradise (with ‘Elephant Trombone‘) and particularly smokin’ takes of our TAT classics Crude Advice, The Ballad of Jeff Clark and From Killingry to Livingry.

Stay tuned for our next appearance – live at The Princeton Pub (1901 Powell) March 3! We’ll be playing 2 exciting sets alongside cover band Headz Up – so don’t miss it. We’ve got so much material these days, you never quite know what to expect…

Doors: 8pm, Show: 9pm, Tix: $10

See you March 3 at The Princeton!

Don’t miss TAT live Saturday, February 19th! We’ll be bringing our eclectic and progressive brand of Frank Zappa-inspired jazz-rock to Nyala African Restaurant (4148 Main) to perform a two-set concert.

One set will feature an assortment of genre-defying originals and covers and the second set will feature tunes from Squinter’s Paradise (our mini pan-apocalyptic rock opera). Check out the Facebook Event here.

Come out for a glimpse into the future, if there is one at all…

Show starts at 9pm, $10 at the door.

Hope to see you there!

YEEHAW! Thanks to everyone who came out to The Penthouse last night to hear us premiere the music from Squinter’s Paradise – our mini pan-apocalyptic rock opera. The evening was our most successful Sunday Spectacular yet, with electrifying special guests, hilarious prizes and a HOT-AS-HELL set of new TAT tunes. Not to worry! It doesn’t end there….

You see – Squinter’s Paradise is a 40-minute rock opera, designed to be transportable to any typical musical engagement. Last night was the beginning, not the end. Come see TAT live sometime, and you may just get taken to Squinter’s Paradise yourself. After all, “you’re one of us now”. And watch out for the FULL premiere, later in 2011….

We also ‘whipped out’ quite the shaving kit: TWO dynamite Zappa covers: Outside Now - featuring soulful vocals and gripping extendo-solo – and Cosmik Debris - showcasing the stylings of saxophonist (and bouncer extraordinaire) Dominic Conway. And despite a few technical hurdles and at least one crazed fan attempting to mount the stage (…), we rocked the evening away with blistering versions of our TAT favs.

Thanks to Gwyn, Jay, Josh, Hailly, Courtney, Jon, Rob, Mona, Scott, Dominic, the wonderful folks from Boobytrap and the Tiger Skin Thursdays and, of course, all of you who came out to support Two Apple Tobacco.

Don’t miss our next show at:

Nyala African Restaurant, Saturday February 19th

Stay tuned for VIDEO from last night’s show!