Monster Truck Summer Night Concert at the Fair at the PNE Vancouver "MONSTER TRUCK is one of the few really great down to earth rock ‘n' roll bands... they're hard, soulful and heavy"
Date/Time: Aug 30 2016, 8:30 pm to 10:45 pm
Vancouver, PNE AmphitheatreCost: $15.00
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You know where you stand with a band named MONSTER TRUCK, right?
For the last two years, this raucous quartet has been busy putting Hamilton, Ontario, on the rock ‘n' roll map thanks to a remarkable selection of blue-collar rock songs called ‘Furiosity". This release won the band 4 #1 singles on radio across the country and a 2013 Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year. With a no-frills style that mixes groove, sludge, stoner rock and vintage sounds, the high-energy combo has made friends in high places by celebrating the simplest and also the finest things in life. In the time since their debut, in true road warrior style they toured Europe and the US playing blistering shows at Download Festival and Hammerfest as well as supporting the mighty Guns n Roses, Slash, Alice in Chains, ZZ Top, Buckcherry, Rival Sons and Vista Chino.
Nominated for Rock Album of the Year at the 2014 Juno Awards in their native Canada, ‘Furiosity' also introduced MONSTER TRUCK to the international market, and now they're back with another wide-tread slab of horns-up, heads-down swaggering Southern rock that's entitled ‘Sittin' Heavy'. Released earlier this year in February, 2016 ‘Sittin' Heavy' debut at #3 on Billboard charts and the hit single "Don't Tell Me How to Live" is looking to be the 1st song of another very successful run of smash radio hits. ‘Sittin' Heavy' is a glorious hard rocking statement, retaining all of the ingredients that enabled MONSTER TRUCK to break out of the box whilst continuing a gradual evolution, expanding upon ideas established at the quartet's inception.
Their music has the power to tackle all manner of subjects, including the day to day drudgery that's served up by the world, and turn them into something positive. The album's highly contagious first single, ‘Don't Tell Me How to Live', has been unanimously welcomed as a great rallying cry.
And sure enough MONSTER TRUCK present the listener with a mouth-watering all you can eat buffet, piling on the riffs, cranking up the rhythm section and serving up all manner of delicious, hummable choruses. This is no mere exercise in bludgeon riffola.
All of the little pieces are in place.
Come on in and leave those inhibitions at the door. You won't regret it…
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