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Plus Perfect (ex dbs) and Falklands Oct 21 @ Marquee Room

Anyone remember dbs ? If Youtube’s any indication it looks like the Vancouver skate-punk act’s video for "Snowball" — a veritable Muchmusic-before-Sook-Yin-Lee-started-getting-naked classic along with Another Joe’s " Eat at Bernie’s " — might have gotten lost in the sands of time.

Which is a shame but it doesn’t mean its members have been inactive. In fact vocalist Jesse Gander has resurfaced with Plus Perfect a band slightly less focused on punxuppery and a little more in tune with its pop sensibilities. It’s certainly more sonically adventurous than its adolescent predecessor — we don’t remember dbs effectively using horns or messing around with pedal boards period — but listen closely and there’s still plenty of three-chord anthemic charm here. In fact it’s not that huge a stretch from dbs’s later work which channelled mid-90s emo before it became a pejorative term (read: they liked Jawbreaker).

Anyhow Plus Perfect will wind down its Cross-Canada tour with Edmonton’s Falklands — another gruff immediately infectious roots-punk group that ever-so-slightly channels Attack in Black’s Constantines-worshipping tendencies — with a date at the Marquee Room on Thursday October 21.

Here’s the rest of its tour dates taken from Falklands’ website :

October 8 – Halifax – Gus’ Pub

w/ Plus Perfect Fat Stupids

October 11 – Moncton – Plan B

w/ Plus Perfect

October 15 – Toronto – Studio BLR

w/ Plus Perfect

October 16 – St. Catharines – The Mansion House

w/ Plus Perfect

October 17 – Windsor – Phog Lounge

w/ Plus Perfect State of Us

October 19 – Winnipeg – Lo Pub

w/ Plus Perfect

October 20 – Moose Jaw – Chiller’s

w/ Plus Perfect

October 21 – Calgary – Marquee Room

w/ Plus Perfect

October 22 – Hinton – Woodcutter Lounge

w/ Plus Perfect

October 23 – Edmonton – Teddy’s? Palace

w/ Plus Perfect Whiskeyface Trent Buhler

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