Video premiere: Paris Pick & Damien Alblas - Live
And now, for something a little different; today, the Cups N Cakes Network is debuting live videos from both Whitehorse based yacht-popper Paris Pick and Kootenay Boundary heartthrob Damien Alblas, to announce their upcoming tour together in Fall 2023. The live videos are from a show the two played together in March 2023 in Nelson, BC, at the Hume Hotel’s Spirit Bar.
For Alblas, the song showcased here is “Silent Lover”, which was inspired by a poem about all “silent lovers” that one may have and may never know about. The song features Pick on the bass, and channels a sound from the New York indie scene of the early 2000’s (think Jonathan Fire Eater or the Strokes), and shares that scene’s fascination with the pure rock-n-roll of the 1970s. Paris Pick’s song “Baby I’m Too Good for You” shares Alblas’ preoccupation with that same era, but pulls from a more soul/motown catalogue of sounds. The stage suddenly becomes a lot more crowded, with horns, Hammond organ, and a couple guitar players added into the mix.
This shared aesthetic will make for one hell of a tour. Tour dates will be announced soon, and in the meantime, the pair’s most recent recordings can be found on Bandcamp; Damien Alblas has a few live recordings and covers up, and Paris Pick’s 2021 record Hope for the Best is available for purchase.
