Featured Events in Vancouver in April, 2025 (February Updated)

AC/DC and The Pretty Reckless are set to electrify Vancouver with an unforgettable concert at BCPlace on April 22, 2025, at 7:00 PM. Known for their high-energy performances and iconic rock anthems, AC/DC will share the stage with The Pretty Reckless, a band celebrated for its powerful vocals and dynamic presence. This event promises to be a monumental night for rock enthusiasts, offering a rare opportunity to witness two legendary acts in one venue. With ticket prices set at 80 CAD, fans can expect an evening filled with classic hits and new favorites, all set against the backdrop of Vancouver's vibrant music scene. BCPlace, renowned for hosting world-class events, provides the perfect setting for this spectacular show, ensuring an experience that will resonate long after the final chord is struck.

The Folk Implosion (Lou Barlow & John Davis) back after a thirty year hiatus, stop by the Government Center in Pittsburgh for a rare performance. There will be an opening set from John, and opening set from Lou, then the Folk Implosion. ************************************************************************************************************ How the fuck are we going to turn this into a song?” That’s the question Lou Barlow and John Davis have asked themselves since co-founding the Folk Implosion in the early 1990s. Beginning with improvised jams featuring Barlow on bass and Davis on drums, the duo develop their beat-driven pop collages from the ground up. It’s the process they used on their debut cassette, Walk Through This World with the Folk Implosion, and one they’ve returned to 30 years later on their spellbinding, self-referencing reunion, Walk Thru Me. Information Source: The Folk Implosion | eventbrite

0330AM and The Rickshaw Presents Ché Aimee DorvalFriday, April 4th, 2025The Fox Cabaret19+Doors: 7:00pmChé Aimee DorvalVancouver based artist Ché Aimee Dorval is no stranger to bending and blending genres into her own unique style. She effortlessly mixes trip-hop, folktronica and soul with an alt-rock swagger that comes perfectly packaged under a blanket of raw and hypnotic vocals that she has become known for. www.cheaimeedorval.com RSVP on FacebookRefund PolicyNo refunds, unless event is cancelled. No exchanges. For full listings visit www.rickshawtheatre.com Information Source: Rickshaw Theatre | eventbrite

Presented by 24th Annual FunnyFest COMEDY SOCIETY Comedy WRITING Workshop - 30 Essential Secrets of Comedy Writing - 3 Hour Saturday COURSE:SATURDAY, April 5, 2025 @ 1 pm to 4 pmLearn from the pros through a hilarious and non-competitive Comedy WRITING Workshop! Collaboratively we will augment and complement your comedy notions AND comedy writing to massively assist in improving the quality of funny AND add more funny to your comedy writing --- Fresh perspectives and creative ideas GUARANTEED. This fast paced workshop is an opportunity to improve your comedy writing skills, to add more laughter to your presentations, speeches, special occasion, general public speaking, OR stand up comedy — FunnyFest Comedy will teach you the 30 essential secrets to writing comedy! This highly interactive, comedy workshop is perfect for any person interested in comedy writing and/or applying proven stand up comedy techniques to your personal and business life. Stand up comedy is an art and science. Laughter is a Gift and a useful tool. The FunnyFest Comedy WRITING Workshop will make you think, work and improve. These universal principals you can apply in your business and everyday life. PLUS you will have NON-STOP fun while you learn! YOU RECEIVE: * 30 comedy writing methods * Delivered by a 20 year HEADLINE Stand - Up Comedy Instructor, that has taught comedy for over 15 years, combined with 1800 plus comedy Performances AND 25 years Comedy Writing experience! * Free $100 Gift Certificate * Great Food and Beverages to Purchase - Fantastic Brunch * Laughs and FUN Galore! * 100% satisfaction Guaranteed. FunnyFest Comedy knows funny and crafted this course for your success! 2 Free ticket (value $40) to FunnyFest Comedy Show INVESTMENT: Only $49 for 3 hours of NON-STOP learning! VENUE: Vancouver Public Library, Central Library, 350 W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6B 6B1 What are FunnyFest Comedy’s credentials? FunnyFest Comedy has extensive expertise in this arena. FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival has produced over 2000 comedy events! FunnyFest Comedy has developed over 40 professional stand up comics. The Comedy Workshop is technique driven and taught by professional stand up comics that have performed in at least 1500 shows each. Invest in yourself! Choose a date and sign up now! For further information please contact: FunnyFest Comedy Festival SOCIETY tickets FunnyFest com NOTE: A. LIGHT REFRESHMENTS of bottled water served. B. If you would like, you can bring your own beverages and / or alcohol drinks (i.e. beer / coolers / cider / wine); C. Street parking only / no free parking. More info & Buy Comedy WRITING Workshop: https://funnyfest-comedy-writing-workshop-vancouver-yvr.eventbrite.ca Information Source: FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival Society | eventbrite

The Invisible Orange Presents Mayhemwith guests, Mortiis, Imperial Triumphant and New Skeletal FacesApril 6th, 2025The Rickshaw Theatre19+Doors: 5:30pmMayhemPreeminent black metallers Mayhem ready their newest live strike with Daemonic Rites for Century Media. The 16-track effort captures the frightful efficiency and utter lethality of the Norwegians as they close the chapter on their exalted sixth album, Daemon (2019). Throughout Daemonic Rites, Mayhem impressively nail newer tracks like “Falsified and Hated,” “Malum,” “Bad Blood,” and “Voces Ab Alta” to the proverbial cross, while offering pure fucking mastery of classics like “Freezing Moon,” “Buried by Time and Dust,” “Deathcrush,” and “Carnage.” The devilish quintet also add mid-career haunts like “To Daimonion,” “Symbols of Bloodswords,” and “My Death,” making Daemonic Rites a genuine career-spanning offering. “We wanted to document how great the band and set sounds like after almost 40 years of playing live,” says founding member Necrobutcher. “As a treat to our fans, we decided to release this live recording.” “We released the live version of De Mysteriis a few years ago,” Ghul adds. “That was received very well. We have been playing together for so long now with this lineup that we feel we have reached a point where we are a seriously well-oiled machine. It seemed like a natural step to try to capture this moment in the band’s history, with the same setlist we have been using for a while.” Mayhem have nearly 1,000 shows to their name. Since their formation in Langhus, Norway in 1984, the band—now comprised of Necrobutcher (bass), Hellhammer (drums), Attila Csihar (vocals), Teloch (guitars), and Ghul (guitars)—have brought their brand of bellicose, preternatural black metal to over 60 countries. From the United States and Germany to Australia and Brazil, Mayhem have stunned, bewildered, and turned rabid a global legion, dedicated as much to the band’s infamous legacy as they are staunchly in support of Daemon. Much of that respect and devotion started in the early ‘90s, but persisted to the present day on the strength of official live albums Live in Leipzig (1993), Mediolanum Capta Est (1999), Live in Marseille 2000 (2001) and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive (2016). Mayhem continue their on-stage assault with Daemonic Rites. www.thetruemayhem.com MortiisAfter Mortiis left Emperor, the Norwegian black metal band he was part of starting, in late 1992, he started Mortiis as a solo project, and released several solo records between 1993 and 1999. Reinvented as a proper band, Mortiis released The Smell of Rain in 2001. Followed by The Grudge in 2004, and the remix record Some Kind of Heroin in 2006. mortiis.bandcamp.com Imperial TriumphantImperial Triumphant is a metal band that embodies the dissonant duality of life in New York City, from its gilded towers of luxury and sparkling promise of success to its rotten, greedy, rat-infested underbelly. Formed in 2012 by vocalist/guitarist Zachary Ezrin and later joined by bassist Steve Blanco and drummer Kenny Grohowski, the band takes an avant garde, jazz-inspired approach to death/black metal – a deeply unique and confrontational sound made made even more menacing by the malevolent gold masks of the ancient gods Apollo, Baal, and Hecate worn onstage by the three members. www.imperial-triumphant.com New Skeletal FacesIt’s been 7 years since New Skeletal Faces arrived on our planet and embedded themselves in the seedy outlying corners of the Southern Californian music scene. Formed in 2017 New Skeletal Faces present themselves as a cosmic abomination that tote the genre lines between all manners of darkness in music. With an aesthetic as sketchy as their sound, NSF cast the black light onto the long dormant corpse of Deathrock, shattering the mirror of modern Heavy Metal into fragments that reflect back a fresh new take on a sound that time was never told to forget. It’s been with us all along, this darkness… the world can now pretend it always knew. newskeletalfaces.com RSVP on FacebookRefund PolicyNo refunds, unless event is cancelled. For full listings visit www.rickshawtheatre.com Information Source: Rickshaw Theatre | eventbrite

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