Lab Coast drummer Chris Dadge is excited to return to Lethbridge to be part of the Electric Eye Music Festival, this time as part of his own band in support of their new CD“ Remember the Moon” released with Evan Van Reekum’s record label Wyatt Records.
Lab Coast play Attainable Records, May 12 with the Fox Who Slept the Day Away, The Silkstones, Participation and the Devonian Gardens.
“We’re really excited about this relationship with Wyatt,” he said.
“ This one has a fuller sound. Me and David (Laing) did all of the writing together and they other people learned the parts,” he said adding a lot of bands record in their studio and left their instruments when they were finished.
So he and Laing tried them out and put them on their new CD.
“ We used drums in different places and sped up tape. We experimented with different textures and different sounds,” he said, adding reproducing the album on stage can be challenging.
“ It can be a challenge. But we’re a five piece and the people (bandmates Sammie Smith, Henry Hsieh and Darrell Hartsook) are really great musicians,” he said, noting the recorded experience is different from the live experience.
“ Then we’ll be touring the west coast with Diamond Mind,” he said.
They filmed the first video from the CD “ Bored again” in a swimming pool.
“ Our friend Sarah Jean Hughes to do it for us. it was a lot of fun. Everyone was really nice. We did the whole thing in an afternoon in the old Belt Line swimming pool,” he said.
“We thought the the pool captured the melancholy feel of the song and there was really cool lighting, he said.
He enjoyed being part of the Electric Eye Festival last year as part of Chad Van Gaalen’s band.
He also played Lethbridge with Lab Coast as part of a Blueprint Records anniversary party at the Slice in 2014 with Dead Soft.
“ We’re really excited to play with all of these a other artists at the Electric Eye,” he said.
Lab Coast play Attainable Records, May 12 with local band the Silkstones,ambient indie rock band the Fox Who Slept the Day Away, post punk band Participation and fellow Calgarians the Devonian Gardens.
The show begins at 7:30 p.m. , May 12 at Attainable Records. There is a $15 cover without a wristband.
