The Harpoonist, Ethan K Bender's Frequent Flyers Club

Friday, May 10, 2024
The Harpoonist

Ethan K Bender's Frequent Flyers Club
The Exchange - 2431 8th ave.

This is an all ages & licensed event

THE HARPOONIST

You ought to meet Harpoonist. Known to family, friends and hardcore fans as Shawn Hall. A harpoon/harmonica/harp virtuoso with a couple of decades in the hardcore, blues-based rock and roll trenches. D’you remember The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer, Shawn’s duo with Matt Rogers for 17 blistering years at festivals and concert halls and clubs large and small, grungy and almost clean?

Well, Hall’s turned a new leaf.  Harpoonist — Hall’s non-de-plume and the name of the band — is something else again. New songs. New record. New gritty, tough-assed swamp music with edge and off-the-wall lyrics. More importantly, new musical partner-in-crime Big Sugar’s Gordie Johnson. Harpoonist (the band) is something else: Hall on harpoon, and vocals of course, and some keys. And Johnson, Big Sugar’s Texas-based producer, guitarist on nearly everything else. Plus, Hall’s pal Jonas Shandel, who also helped write the songs.

Harpoonist is ready. There's a new track ready to be released called "Good People” The made-in-Texas record is titled “Did We Come Here to Dance.” Due in February on Tonic Records label and on all the streaming services.

Oh, and you almost certainly will dance. Promise.

Ethan K Bender's Frequent Flyers Club

Ethan K Bender is a musician from the cold, dead heart of the prairies. Stepping away from the brash, distorted volume of his bands Both Doors Have Tigers, Trash Hawks, and Gut Balloon, he takes the sounds of classic folk, rock, country and garage and steeps it in a fuzzy, warm layer of modern psychedelia. When not performing, you can find him holed up in his garage studio, sifting through the smoke and debris to craft his wooly gems of songs.

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About the Exchange

Proof of vaccination is no longer required.

Masks are encouraged.

The Exchange is wheelchair accessible and offers 2 non-gender/wheelchair-accessible washrooms.

The Exchange is an all-ages venue that supports the Safer Spaces Initiative. We do not tolerate any form of harassment, abusive and/or discriminative behaviour. Such behaviour is grounds for immediate removal from the event/venue. If you are experiencing any harassment please ask to speak to a manager.

Ticket price plus taxes and fees - lineups subject to change - no refunds or exchanges