You know how, when a band plays Lethbridge regularly, you always assume they’ll be back and you can catch them the next time? Well, there might not be a next time to catch Vancouver punk/ blues duo the Pack A.D. , who are touring Canada one last time.
They make a long awaited return to the Slice, Sept. 4 with fellow B.C. musicians Shaun Rawlins and Tyler Bartfai.
“ It’s been quite a few years since we‘ve been to Lethbridge,” said Pack AD guitarist/vocalist Becky Black, who along with drummer Maya Miller make up the Pack. A.D.
They last played the Slice in 2015 and the year before that opened for Alice in Chains at the Enmax Centre.
“I guess we both need to take a little break to work on other projects,” she continued, adding they both wanted to do one last big tour of Canada and the U.S. before they quit the road.
“We‘ve been together for more than 10 years, ” Black said, adding Tintype was released in April 2007.
“I don’t have any regrets, it just feels like it’s about time,” she continued.
“We picked the songs that we could still tolerate,” Black laughed, adding it was an easy choice to make. It has also been a challenge to relearn the songs.
“We just started the band like three weeks before we recorded it. I was a guitar player when we started, but Maya wasn’t really a drummer. She was learning how to play them. So when she was relearning the songs, she had to figure out how to play that way again,” she said.
“Those songs don’t really represent us anymore, ” she added.
She is pleased with the response to their most recent work “Dollhouse”.
“Response has been positive, she said.
The live show will include songs from “Tintype” and “Dollhouse.”
“It will be mostly newer songs, except we‘ve added fog and more lights,” she said.
“We’re just excited to come back to Lethbridge.”
The show begins at the Slice at 9 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance.
