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Exes and O’s Live With Shannon Beveridge – Hard Launch Tour
On March 17, Shannon Beveridge brought her Exes and O’s Hard Launch Tour to the Vancouver Playhouse.
Understanding the importance of diverse representation in entertainment, Shannon is dedicated to amplifying LGBTQIA+ voices through her storytelling. She hosts Exes And O’s, a weekly video podcast where she dives into queer relationships and sex, joined by a rotating lineup of influential queer guests. For this Vancouver edition, she invited E.R. Fightmaster and Breanne Williamson.
Shortly after Shannon‘s VIP Meet & Greet session, we caught up with her and her guests backstage for a few photos. Then it was time for the live show! And it was exactly what you’d expect from Exes And O’s—a perfect blend of comedy, candid conversations, and a whole lot of queer joy.
The night kicked off with Shannon checking in on the crowd, making sure the usually reserved Vancouver audience was warmed up and ready for a night of laughs. She then welcomed actor and musician E.R. Fightmaster to the stage for a lively Q&A.
Things got even more entertaining with the Hard Launch game, hosted by Breanne Williamson. Breanne, a filmmaker, content creator, and advocate for LGBTQIA+ representation, and Shannon kept the energy high as a blindfolded E.R. had to pick an audience member based solely on their answers to four revealing questions. Next up was a round of Would You Rather?, which brought some hilariously tough dilemmas that had both the guests and audience in stitches.
The night wrapped up with an In Memoriam segment, featuring a comically dramatic tribute to iconic queer pop culture moments—think Tumblr, Clexa, and Lindsay Lohan & Samantha Ronson. It was the perfect way to close out a show that balanced humour with heartfelt moments, all while celebrating queer experiences.
As one fan perfectly summed up on the Apple Podcast page, “Whether you are a baby gay, a senior gay, or an ally, this is the podcast you should be listening to.” And if you get the chance to see it live? Even better.
Exes And O’s Hard Launch Tour will be in San Francisco tonight and in Los Angeles on March 22. Head to Shannon’s website for all the ticket info!
We’d like to thank Shannon & her team for welcoming us to the show, as well as Modo Live and Lips Events for having us.
Check out our favourites photos of the night below or head to our Facebook page for the full gallery!
All Photo Credit: Caroline Charruyer & Bailey Morgan
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Summer of ’99 Tour: Creed Gives Winnipeg a Night to Remember
Some nights disappear by the time you get home. This wasn’t one of them. From the first note to the final encore, Canada Life Centre never stopped singing with Creed. Beat after beat, lyric after lyric, hundreds of voices carried the night. If you weren’t there, you genuinely missed something special.
Opening the night was Mammoth. Before jumping into the set, Wolfgang Van Halen asked the crowd how many had seen the band before and how many were first-timers. The cheers landed almost perfectly down the middle.
I also found out he was Eddie Van Halen’s son, my expectations shot through the roof. That’s a heavy name to carry. Songs like “The End,” “The Spell,” “Distance,” and “I Really Wanna” showed exactly why Mammoth is building its own reputation. By the end of the set, he wasn’t just Eddie’s son, he was Wolfgang Van Halen.
Next came Big Wreck, a band that somehow gets even better live. Ian Thornley’s guitar work was effortless, floating between delicate melodies without missing a beat. “The Oaf,” “Come Again,” and “Albatross” sounded massive. Every instrument cut through cleanly, every lyric landed. Big Wreck are definitely one of Canada’s strongest live rock bands.
Then everything shifted. Long before the lights dropped, the arena had already decided who they came for.
“Creed! Creed! Creed!”
The chant rolled across the building before the band even stepped on stage. The opening blast of “Bullets” hit with fire shooting into the air, smoke pouring across the stage. They played like a band with something left to prove. Audiences were locked in just like the band.
The set moved through “Weathered,” “On My Sleeve,” “My Own Prison,” “What If,” “One,” “What’s This Life For,” and “With Arms Wide Open.” Every chorus came back twice as loud as it left the stage. Thousands of phone lights lit up the arena.
After a short pause, the encore delivered exactly what everyone had been waiting for. “One Last Breath.” The crowd barely let Stapp finish a line before taking over. Then came “My Sacrifice,” and for a few minutes, the band almost disappeared beneath the voices around them. That’s what made this show hit differently. The show was about hearing songs that still connect, still fill arenas, and still have thousands of people screaming every word like they were written yesterday.
Check our our favourite photos of the night below or head to our Facebook page for the full gallery!
CREED
BIG WRECK
MAMMOTH
All Photo Credit: Nischal Karki
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Coheed and Cambria Bring “This Is Our War” to Ottawa
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa – July 14, 2026
There’s a particular kind of chaos that follows Coheed and Cambria into a room, and Ottawa got the full dose of it on a Tuesday night that felt more like a Saturday. Twenty-plus years into their run, and still touring behind last year’s Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe, the New York prog-rock lifers proved once again that a good story and a great riff are not mutually exclusive.
The Openers: Cevilain Own Their Hometown Stage
Before the headliners even hit the stage, the local crowd already had something to cheer for. Cevilain, Ottawa’s own, got the rare hometown-opener treatment, and they didn’t waste it. Tight, loud, and relishing the size of the room, the band tore through a set that had the front rows moving well before Coheed‘s set change. There’s something different about watching a band play in their own city, and that energy was written all over the performance.
The Headliners: Hair, Harmonics, and the Keywork
By the time the house lights dropped, the room was packed shoulder to shoulder. Claudio Sanchez took the stage exactly as fans expect him to, guitar slung low and hair a wall of curls.
The production leaned hard into the band’s sci-fi mythology, with the “keywork” logo splashed across the backdrop in shifting reds, blues, and greens throughout the night. Sanchez spent as much time airborne, leaping, crouching, and prowling the lip of the stage, as he did locked into the fretboard, and the rest of the band matched the intensity beat for beat. The rhythm section anchored the heavier cuts while the guitar work carried the band’s trademark blend of melodic hooks and progressive sprawl.
Between songs, the crowd took over almost as much as the band did, fists in the air, singalongs on the choruses, and no shortage of phones raised to catch a moment.
The Takeaway
For a band this deep into a catalog built on interlocking concept albums, Coheed and Cambria‘s live show still manages to feel less like a history lesson and more like a release valve. Ottawa showed up ready to shout every word back, Cevilain proved a hometown opening slot is nothing to waste, and by the time the last chord rang out, it was clear this stop on the This Is Our War tour earned its place in the run.
Check out our favourite photos of the night below or head to our Facebook page for the full gallery!
COHEED AND CAMBRIA
CEVILIAN
All Photo Credit: Kieran Delport