Northcote - To Cherish Canadian Tour w/Lauren Dillen
Jun 29, 2026
Tickets
Monday, June 29th
Northcote - To Cherish Canadian Tour
w/Lauren Dillen
The Exchange - 2431 8th Ave
This is an all ages & Licensed event
Doors at 7:00pm
Tickets on sale at TheExchangeLive.ca and Vintage Vinyl soon
$20/$25
Northcote is the musical project of Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Goud, known for his heartfelt songwriting, resonant voice, and dynamic live performances. Launched in 2008, Northcote has toured extensively across North America and Europe sharing stages with The Gaslight Anthem, Frank Turner, and Hot Water Music, while building a
loyal fanbase through anthems of connection, resilience, and hope.
In 2026, Northcote will release To Cherish, a full-length album recorded at Rain City Studios in Vancouver with producer Jesse Gander (Japandroids, Dave Hause, White Lung). The album represents both a sonic evolution and a deeply personal chapter for Goud, inspired by the end of a long-term relationship, the culmination of a spiritual
season in his life, and the renewed momentum found in returning to the road post-pandemic.
“In the spring of 2024, we toured Europe with Chris Cresswell from Hot Water Music and The Flatliners, along with our friend Matze Rossi from Germany. Around that time, I was just beginning to dream about a new Northcote record. I already had the title To Cherish in my head. I had written it down on looseleaf paper over and over. After we got back from Europe, we played a few shows in Quebec and Ontario. Stephen and I were driving a borrowed car—it was a Kia Rio with 300,000 kilometres on it—lent to us by our friend Miguel. Somewhere along those drives, I started talking to Stephen about To Cherish and about making the record with Jesse Gander in Vancouver.”
Shaped by the duo touring model that carried Northcote through recent years, the record captures the raw intimacy and intensity of those shows. Long-time collaborator Stephen McGillivray expansive guitar work anchors the sound, with additional contributions from Paul Rigby (Neko Case), percussionist Mike Battle, and arrangement support from Gander and bassist Eric Paone. Together, they crafted a set of songs that are as physical and cathartic as they are lyrical and reflective. The album reflects on themes of grief, gratitude, joy, and hope—urging listeners to treasure life’s experiences, even the difficult ones, as part of what shapes us.
Speaking of the lead single, Matt ponders “Alternate Universe, is a daydream on what might’ve been, an homage to the road not taken. “I was feeling regret and disorientation while mourning a divorce, a mourning I had to experience and somehow let go of in a way that was good for me.”
Tracks like “Tangled Strings” and “Cherish the Way” balance confessional songwriting with a full-bodied energy that carries into Northcote’s live performances, while songs like “Cut Me In Two” break away from that, with an intimate finger picking and vulnerable vocal performance. “A mystery about heartbreak is that over time, you might come
out of it for the better. And might realize it was something that was needed.”
Over the past decade, Northcote has released seven studio albums, steadily cultivating a grassroots audience through powerful performances in intimate venues and festival stages alike. The DIY spirit that fuelled his 2024 tours—including the If You Roam tour with Chris Cresswell and a Western Canada headline run—remains central to the new chapter ahead. With a vibrant international fanbase, Northcote continues to expand his reach, contributing meaningfully to the music community.
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Lauren Dillen is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist who moves deftly between mediums to uncover meaning in the quiet, complicated corners of being alive. Also known for her work as a tattoo artist and as a member of psych-folk band Burs, her creative life is guided by an instinct to follow feeling first and let understanding arrive later.
At the center of her solo music is a simple idea: songs are teachers. Dillen often writes before she fully has language for what she is experiencing, allowing melody and imagery to hold emotions that have not yet settled into clarity. With time, the lesson reveals itself. Each song becomes both a record of that process and a place to return to it. In performance, she revisits these pieces as a way of practicing the feelings they contain, moving through memory, tenderness, and discomfort with a gentle steadiness that invites listeners to do the same.
Her songs carry a hidden emotional weight beneath deceptively simple arrangements. While echoes of artists like Big Thief, Laura Marling, and Haley Heynderickx ripple through her work, her voice remains entirely her own. Dillen has opened for artists including Bahamas and frequently collaborates with musicians such as Georgia Harmer, Fontine, and Sister Ray, contributing to a close-knit Canadian indie-folk community.
In her recent solo work, Dillen sharpens the instincts that have always distinguished her songwriting. On “every‑woman sore,” cut in her home studio with Ray Goudy, she charts the quiet but profound mechanics of kinship, and how women lean in, step back, and learn to carry one another over the long haul. By contrast, “One More Time for the Road,” recorded live off the floor at Calgary’s National Music Centre, is built around a single, unguarded take, its lines threaded with the ache of memory and the stubborn loop of longing. Through it all, Dillen’s voice unfurls like tangled vines, reaching toward the light.
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