JumpAttack! Records Presents: War For Your Money
LIVE at Blue Light Sessions- 1839 Franklin Ave.
May 13th 2022
Doors at 7PM, Music at 8PM
Tickets: $20 Advance / $25 Door
Full bar available for 19+ guests
**Space is limited to 60 guests**
**Please be aware that this space is cozy and intimate, if you are uncomfortable being close to strangers at this time, this space is not for you**
**This is also a LIVE video set, there will be camera people filming each set and you may be on camera**
ENTRANCE WILL BE FROM THE BACK ALLEY
For Vancouver rock and roll quartet War For Your Money, the timing of the release of their debut album couldn’t have been better - or worse - depending on you look at it.
They first hit the stage at the Astoria in East Vancouver in November 2019, mere months before the COVID-19 pandemic would paralyze the world. Undeterred, the band masked-up, rehearsed, wrote, and refined their material before entering Blue Light Studio a year later where they laid down what would become their nine-song debut album “Buyer’s Remorse.”
Unable to play live as the virus raged across their home province of British Columbia, the band bided their time as mixing and mastering hit delays due to an outbreak among staff at the recording studio. But it was worth the wait. What emerged is an intense, dynamic, and anthemic collection of deeply personal tracks delving into the strange and tortured mind of frontman Riley Dickson, a motor¬cycle mechanic by day who moved to Vancouver from his hometown of Revelstoke to pursue his passion for loud engines and loud guitars.
Dickson first met lead guitarist Matt Baumgartner at an ill-fated audition for a now-defunct group that set the stage for War For Your Money to come together. After recruiting drummer Adrian Aguilar, the band struggled to find a bassist for months, but little did they know he was right under their noses. Unknowingly, Dickson had met Darryl Greer, a 15-year veteran of the Vancouver rock and metal scene, at a bar they both frequented where they became fast friends.
With Greer on board and taking their name from a song title of a previous project, the band’s sound immediately evolved into a heavier, more progressive hard-rock style that teeters between classic and modern influences for a unique yet familiar and accessible sonic combination of groove, darkness, angst, and ethereal whimsy.
With the Summer 2021 re¬lease of “Buyer’s Remorse,” the band hopes to use the album as a springboard back to the stage once pandemic restrictions lift, ready to unleash and unveil their message as a beacon of begrudging hope upon a world beset by global upheaval.
Refunds at discretion of the venue