Punchface Propaganda Machine

We’re very excited to announce ARCTIC’s tour plans for the fall.

We are partnering with Bruxelles, a band from Clermont-Ferrand, France, on an intercontinental expedition. Bruxelles will tour with ARCTIC in Canada for two weeks in September, and then ARCTIC will tour with them in October in Europe.

Exact dates will be announced later this summer, but will include Paris, Clermont-Ferrand, Riom, Montpellier, Lyon and potentially Germany and Switzerland.

Fundraiser Show

ARCTIC will also be holding a fundraiser show at the Railway Club in Vancouver on Saturday, August 7. We’re grateful to our friends The Gentle Infidels, Danny Echo, and We Landed On The Moon! (all the way from Louisiana) and are looking forward to returning the favour in the future. Advance tickets are available on our website - buy a ticket now to get a free download of our new song “White Walls"!

We will also be holding a big raffle and the draw will happen at the show on August 7. So far prizes include gift baskets from Happy Planet Health Shots, tickets to the BC Lions, autographs from 54-40 and much much more…

Tickets for the raffle and the show are available on ARCTIC’s website.

ARCTIC is hitting the road for a series of Western Canada shows this April & May.

April 10: Ottoman Lounge, Medicine Hat, AB
April 12: The Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, BC
April 16: Voodoo’s, Penticton, BC
April 22: The Slice, Lethbridge, AB
April 23: O’Hanlon’s, Regina, SK
April 24: Marquee Room, Calgary, AB
May 1: Howe Sound Brewing, Squamish, BC
May 14: Railway Club, Vancouver, BC

For more information visit ARCTIC’s Tour page.

Punchface Propaganda Machine is pleased to present Waltz Darling, ARCTIC, Nixie (all the way from Kelowna!) and Pepper Sands on Saturday, March 13 at the Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir Street @ Seymour, Vancouver, BC).

Doors at 9, show at 10, $10, 19+. Find out more at the Facebook page here.

Marcus Martin and Kirsten of ARCTIC / Punchface Propaganda Machine will be giving a talk at Tom Lee Music in Vancouver on Saturday, February 6, as part of the In Affinity Music Collective’s “Wall of Sound” lecture series. They’ll be discussing what they do as a DIY/indie band and how they do it, and how to focus your own goals to succeed in the music industry.

More details are available on the IAM Collective website or the Facebook event page.

ARCTIC has released a three-song EP of live tracks recorded at Zaphod Beeblebrox in Ottawa on October 5, 2009. You can get the MP3s a number of different ways:

• Buy them at Amiestreet.com
• If you’re on Twitter, get “War of Ideas” in exchange for one tweet
• Join our Facebook page to get “Happiness vs. Sadness”
• Join our mailing list to get Dec 25th.

You can also listen to them on ARCTIC’s MySpace and CBC Radio 3 pages.