Live at Electric Owl

July 27th 2012 

The Electric Owl

Boutique Empire presents:

Combine the Victorious
Onelight 

Fuzzum

Combine the Victorious celebrates the release of the bandʼs new single and video “Paros” at the Electric Owl Social Club, July 27th, Vancouver Canada. This exceedingly stylish event will definitely include music and may encourage dancing. Sound good? Yes, we thought so too.

Creating a sound that resides somewhere between the heady waters of Chic and Portishead, Mark R Henning (formerly of Pure/Guilty About Girls) and Isabelle Dunlop (formerly of Sex With Strangers) are performing songs from their latest album (The Agreement). Come dance, say hello, or help spread the word of fun.

Sharing the bill will be friends to CtV, Onelight and Fuzzum, who are:

Onelight is singer Amy Usher and drummer Hamish Thomson (The Hermit/Big Tall Garden). With a shared love things folk, indie rock and ambient electronica, Amy and Hamishʼs music is emotionally rich with vocal harmonies and tripped out ambient textures. The blend of layered percussive beats and smooth vocals slinks around reference points embracing Morecheeba, Massive Attack and Beth Orton. Onelight is currently in the studio mixing their debut album with Howard Redekopp; planned release date set for September.

Fuzzum is a supersecret side project of Jordy Birch (lead singer of Pure/Guilty About Girls) and Lucas T Poth (Guilty About Girls). A more blissed out indie fuzz rock version than their other projects, Fuzzum is all about noisy pop/rock jams.

And there will also be DJ sets! Juice (Yoko Casionos) will hit the proverbial decks to perfect the evening of music, dancing, and levity.

Doors at 8PM - Early Show - begins at 8:30 sharp Tickets $10 at the door.

Electric Owl - 928 Main Street, Vancouver BC

Contact: info@boutiqueempire.com

poster design Robert Edmonds

Facebook event

New Song: Combine the Victorious "Glasgow"

Combine the Victorious has just completed a new song for their upcoming third album.  This one was written by Isabelle Dunlop while she was back in Scotland last year.  They were joined by Marc Wild and Simon Hunt for the tracking of the song, and even managed to get them into the new video.

This video was shot at Imagined Aire Studio and edited by Mark R Henning over the past weekend.  A glimpse into the sound of their future release.




"Glasgow" by Combine the Victorious
(Dunlop, Henning)

Video produced by Boutique Empire
camera work and editing M R Henning

Song produced and performed by Combine the Victorious
engineering and mixing: Henning

Vocals: Isabelle Dunlop
Keybaords and backing Vocals: Mark R Henning
Guitars: Marc Wild
Drums: Simon Hunt

Download track from iTunes

New Video from Guilty About Girls - Dancefloor

Boutique Empire is proud to present Dancefloor by Guilty About Girls

Video produced by Boutique Empire
Camera work and editing by Mark Henning

Dancefloor written by Jordy Birch
Produced and Performed by Guilty About Girls
Engineered and mixed by Digory Smallz at Claymore Studio
Vocal and guitar: J Birch
Keyboards and programming: Mark R Henning
Backing Vocals: Isabelle Dunlop
Hi Hat overdubs: L T Poth
additional guitar and programming: Digory Smalls

download from http://tinyurl.com/88hj3qp or
http://guiltyaboutgirls.bandcamp.com/track/dancefloor

lyrics

Combine the Victorious Vlog

Combine the Victorious has started a vlog explaining their upcoming release.  This post deals with the various remixes of their song "California".  Initially written in the summer of 2011 with good friend Ingrid Schroeder, the song has been remixed by a handful of talented producers and has led to the duo revisiting their song and making a brand new version.

Updates, News, Stories, jelly beans

There are a lot of things going on behind the scenes for everyone these days.  Currently Sex With Strangers is using the grey winter skies to find inspiration to write their fifth album!  Guilty About Girls is wood-shedding new songs (Jordy has revealed a couple very inspired hooks already) and Combine the Victorious is finalizing another batch of material that will eventually comprise their third release.  Robert Edmonds is as busy as always, last week revealing a few very haunting impressionistic self portrait type pieces.  Gilles Zolty is still hard at work back home in Saskatoon, but we are hopeful for a west coast appearance this spring!

Combine the Victorious also just re-released a song from their Disagreements EP - FKBC.  The video is below. 




This should be a busy year for everyone involved with Boutique Empire, and hopefully we shall add a few new people to our collective!

Recap - first show of the year for Combine

A brief video recap of Combine the Victorious's first show of 2012.  Filmed live at LanaLou's in Vancouver, CV played a set of completely new songs, including debuting one brand new one: Smoke and Choke.

Combine's first show of 2012

starting the year off with a pleasing bang, Combine the Victorious will be playing an all new set Saturday January 21st at LanaLou's.  Co-hosting the night will be friends Black Betty (catch then while Jonas is still on drums!).  Please join us at Vancouver's finest new saloon, LanaLou's.
 362 Powell St. right by Oppenheimer Park. 

*thanks again to Rob Edmonds for another amazing poster!

Here is a preview of a new Combine the Victorious song: Smoke and Choke.  They shall be debuting this number on Saturday night.