ARCTIC music licensed for use in “Too Young to Marry”
ARCTIC’s song “Some One Turning” has been licensed for the television movie “Too Young to Marry”, which will air on Lifetime on July 9 at 9:00 pm ET/PT.
ARCTIC’s song “Some One Turning” has been licensed for the television movie “Too Young to Marry”, which will air on Lifetime on July 9 at 9:00 pm ET/PT.
Marcus Martin and Kirsten Bole were both members of the band for the new rock opera Southern Time by Tim Bartsch of Paint, which played at the WISE Hall in Vancouver from December 4-10. Other members of the band included Jeff Smith on guitar, Alex McKechnie on drums, and Ya-Wen Wang on piano.
ARCTIC performed a full band set at the NewMusicWest festival on Thursday, April 27 at the Marine Club in Vancouver. ARCTIC also played two shows at the Media Club (695 Cambie Street) in April: a band show on April 8 and a solo show on April 22.
Kirsten Starcher, ARCTIC’s bassist and keyboard player, recently accompanied Bird to Prey at Toronto’s annual North by Northeast music festival. The showcase was held at Cameron House, and was filled to capacity. Bird To Prey is singer/songwriter Sarah Turk from the remote town of Fremantle, Western Australia, who mixes “folk, a little bit of blues…
Kirsten from ARCTIC will be volunteering this week as a bass instructor at Girls Rock Camp Vancouver, a non-profit society that builds self-esteem in female youth through music creation and performance. Groups of girls between 8-18 meet, form bands, learn to play their instruments, write a song, and perform it together on stage at the…
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…
On September 23-25, Marcus resolved to challenge himself by recording a full-length ambient album in one weekend, and along with Kirsten, produced a full 76 minutes for AmbientArctic.