MODO LIVE presents: GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR with Special Guests

May 12th, 2025 @ 7:00pm PST

MODO LIVE presents: GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR with Special Guests
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MODO LIVE presents: GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR with Special guests.

19+///Doors:7:00pm

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GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor released a string of albums from 1997-2002 widely recognized as redefining what
protest music can be, where longform instrumental chamber rock compositions of immense feeling and power
serve as soundtracks to late capitalist alienation and resistance. The band’s first four releases—especially F#A#∞
(1997) and Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)—are variously regarded as classics of the era
and genre. Godspeed's legendary live performances, featuring multiple 16mm projectors beaming a collage of
overlapping analog film loops and reels—along with the distinctive iconography, imagery and tactility of the band's
album artwork and physical LP packages— further defines the sui generis aesthetic substance, ethos and mythos
of this group. GY!BE has issued two official band photos in its 25-year existence (the second, below, a 2010
recreation of the first from 1997) and has done a half-dozen collectively-answered written interviews over that
same span. The band has never had a website or social media accounts. It has never made a video. Few rock bands
in our 21st century have been as steadfast in trying to let the work speak for itself and maintaining simple rules
about minimising participation in cultures of personality, exposure, access, commodification or co-optation.

Following a seven-year hiatus that began in 2003, Godspeed returned to the stage in December 2010 (curating
the UK festival All Tomorrow’s Parties) and the band’s post-reunion period has now lasted over a decade, marked
by hundreds of sold-out live shows and three additional albums, all of which have been met with high acclaim.

Where
Revelry Food + Music Hub
1383 Ellis Street
Kelowna, British Columbia V1Y 1Z9
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When
May 12th, 2025 @ 7:00pm PST
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