4/23/2011 - Grande Prairie, AB Canada - Evergreen Park Options

[Damion]

Schedule meet-ups, post photos, setlists, reviews, etc. for this show in this thread.

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[dietrying]

why grande prairie of all places? this better be an indication of other dates, like edmonton or something.

preferably they hit edmonton on a date where i don't have a final.

This post has been edited by dietrying: Feb 18 2011, 01:05 PM

[thefirehairman]

that venue's fucking weird ...

Whatever, I hope they'll give what canadian fans are actually expecting ( a toronto show)

[Jacob]

Yo cKy, Vancouver doesn't exist, don't come here.














Might make the trek though.
Google maps tells me it's a 14 hour drive. Sometimes I envy America because of how close your cities and states are.

This post has been edited by Jacob: Feb 19 2011, 12:41 AM

[dietrying]

like i said, i really doubt this a one off show. wouldn't make any sense to play a venue that hosts horse races in the middle of nowhere for no reason. gotta be more dates coming.

This post has been edited by dietrying: Feb 19 2011, 03:55 AM

[Old Vanessa's Bones]

I've never gone to a Cky show, so I'm really going to try to get to this one. Really wish they would come to Vancouver though.. Last time they came here it just happened to be during the week that I wasn't in town.

[TheButcher'sHand]

I missed then in Calgary on the Carver City Tour, so I'm making the 12 hour trip from Medicine Hat.

[Old Vanessa's Bones]

Is this actually confirmed or what? I can't find a place to buy tickets, and when I went on the Evergreen Park website it didn't have anything scheduled for the 23rd.

[dietrying]

no clue. outside of the alliance there seems to be no acknowledgment of the show even existing.

i still don't understand this show. makes zero sense. nobody plays grande prairie for a reason; because it fucking blows. for a band that supposedly has such trouble getting into the country, it seems so strange playing in such a random place.


-by the way, i'm not going to the show or anything, but if anybody's passing through edmonton and wants to stop and chill for a bit i'd be down for that.

This post has been edited by dietrying: Mar 14 2011, 01:09 AM

[Disengager]

Deron said to me on facebook that he didn't know anything about this show either. We really want to make the trip up but with no solid evidence of it's existence...kinda tough to make plans.

[zigger]

I think you should instead shoot a documentary about wild Canadian black bears (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Damion]

The show is official. Management confirmed the date.

Question:
I'll be driving 12 hours to see you in Grand Prairie, AB. So you'd better stick around for after the show! I missed you in Calgary a couple years ago, which was still 3 hrs from Medicine Hat.. So stick around for a beer! you gotta! rock on, can't wait to finallllyy see you guys live!

asked by Kill The Police on 02/23/2011

Answer:
Yeh that's gona be my first time in Canada so I'm def down for a beer or two...haha

answered by Matty J. on 02/23/2011

[thefirehairman]

I'm still waiting for other Canadian dates to be announced ... they can't cross the borders for only 1 show ...

[Jacob]

They can if they are simply flying in and out again.

[Tyler]

Grande Prairie has a population of under 50,000 and the airport is a regional airport, not an international one. This show makes no sense. At all. None. They need to move the venue. To the Commodore. In Vancouver.

[Jacob]

I really can't see cKy filling the Commodore, though it would be nice.
Bands like Finger Eleven are able to play the Commodore simply because they have that boring Canadian rock sound that appeals to the average rock radio fan. Meanwhile, the rest of Vancouver is busy watching indie bands at the Media and Railway Club. Unfortunately, cKy just doesn't have the following here. CFOX didn't even have the show in 2009 at Richards listed on their website, let alone a single mention of them on the radio... which is odd considering they jump on even the shittiest local bands who can bring out 50-100 people max.

(I didn't mean fly directly to Grand Prairie, could just be to Edmonton and back.)

But you guys are right, this entire thing just seems weird. This isn't a major Canadian city or anything. It's literally just a dumpy little town in the middle of nowhere in northern Alberta. I barely even knew about it, and I'm living in the province right beside it. Damion, I know you said it's set in stone, but the fact is there is no other info anywhere on the internet about it. Not on the venues website, (even the venue doesn't seem right from the very beginning, unless they are doing this as part of a festival, however there is NO mention of anything like that either) not on any ticket website, nothing. It just all seems strange for a gig that's only little over a month away.

This post has been edited by Jacob: Mar 14 2011, 10:20 PM

[Disengager]

The show is official. Management confirmed the date.

when you say management.....you mean chad right?

[ckyphil]

cky have management. In fact they have had quite a few over the past few years.

The guy they have now seems cool, he certainly seems to be doing a lot to push the B-Sides record.

[zigger]

The Rev seemed cool, too. But he turned out to be a butt hole.

[TheButcher'sHand]

The show is official. Management confirmed the date.

Question:
I'll be driving 12 hours to see you in Grand Prairie, AB. So you'd better stick around for after the show! I missed you in Calgary a couple years ago, which was still 3 hrs from Medicine Hat.. So stick around for a beer! you gotta! rock on, can't wait to finallllyy see you guys live!

asked by Kill The Police on 02/23/2011

Answer:
Yeh that's gona be my first time in Canada so I'm def down for a beer or two...haha

answered by Matty J. on 02/23/2011

Yeah that was my question. I also asked deron on facebook where I could find tickets, but he simply said The Box Office.... the fuck does that mean to me? lol. Dammit! I want to see CKY once in my life, and enjoy a beer with them.. >:(

[nickbosy]

Yeah that was my question. I also asked deron on facebook where I could find tickets, but he simply said The Box Office.... the fuck does that mean to me? lol. Dammit! I want to see CKY once in my life, and enjoy a beer with them.. >:(

He's just assuming that its going to be either a venue or a booth (if its a festival type show) where you can buy tickets. He (more than likely) hadn't actually looked into it for you when he gave you that quick answer. Hope you guys get some solid answers. I had a similar problem like this 2 summers ago when they came to Florida, and unfortunately, none of the band knew (even the night before) the scheduled show if they were playing it or not, luckily they showed up, but the poor promotion (and the fact that the venue was involved in various legal matters at the time that made consumers wary) made for an exceptionally poor turnout.

This post has been edited by nickbosy: Mar 15 2011, 08:43 PM

[dietrying]

found some more info.

http://www.rock977.ca/concerts/

tickets can be purchased here.

https://eventtickets.muniportal.ca/Online/seatSelect.asp

[TheButcher'sHand]

Thank You!

[Old Vanessa's Bones]

found some more info.

http://www.rock977.ca/concerts/

tickets can be purchased here.

https://eventtickets.muniportal.ca/Online/seatSelect.asp

awesome thank you! going to this is going to cost me a fortune, hopefully it will be worth it

[dietrying]

it literally took me two minutes of searching. you should all be ashamed of yourselves. if you want to thank me, bring me beer. you know where to find me.