{"id":19297,"date":"2020-03-31T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19297"},"modified":"2020-04-01T09:34:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:34:59","slug":"limblifters-eric-breitenbach-stays-busy-despite-cancelled-victoria-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/03\/31\/limblifters-eric-breitenbach-stays-busy-despite-cancelled-victoria-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Limblifter\u2019s Eric Breitenbach stays busy despite cancelled Victoria show"},"content":{"rendered":"

This shouldn\u2019t catch anyone off guard, but everything is cancelled. Sadly, rock \u2019n\u2019 roll is no exception. Among the casualties was Vancouver alt-rock band Limblifter\u2019s show on March 27 at Lucky Bar (the show has been rebooked for September 12). In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of musicians have been forced into quarantine, and Limblifter drummer Eric Breitenbach is busy finding new ways to share his talent with fans.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the pandemic presented itself overseas, Breitenbach says that the crisis was starting to feel serious, but his band chose to go ahead with their tour.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were on tour playing in Ontario, and gatherings of more than 500 were starting to be outlawed,\u201d says Breitenbach. \u201cOur shows were for more than 500, so that was a little sketchy. We played for sold-out audiences in Ottawa and Toronto.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Eric Breitenbach of Limblifter in action (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the virus spread across BC, Breitenbach says that the band was forced to reconsider their plans.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI guess Vancouver put a ban on shows over 500\u2014it wasn\u2019t really up to us to cancel,\u201d says Breitenbach. \u201cThe city put a stop to all events.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Breitenbach says it was at that point that he returned home to self-isolate in Vancouver. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we would prefer to be on the road, but I think that right now it just doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d he says. \u201cIf we all work together to contain this thing, hopefully it ends sooner rather than later. It\u2019s better to be overly cautious than to try to continue on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Canadian musicians generally work on a slightly smaller scale than their American counterparts\u2014Breitenbach says he expects some bands to take a major financial hit as a result of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying live is where most artists make their money, so it\u2019s just a huge loss for everyone,\u201d says Breitenbach. \u201cSo many of my friends are musicians who are off the road right now. No one really knows what they\u2019re going to do because it\u2019s such an uncertain time. It\u2019s not just musicians\u2014everyone\u2019s in the same boat, so we\u2019re all in it together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just the Limblifter shows that got cancelled. Breitenbach had a tour booked playing with Alexandria Maillot that would have taken him to the UK, Germany, and the US. Despite these setbacks, Breitenbach says he still spends most of his time in the studio working with a number of bands.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNothing has really changed on the recording side of things,\u201d says Breitenbach. \u201cThe main difference is that I\u2019m doing most of it alone, and then trading files. I\u2019m still busy drumming anyways.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

First appearing on Limlifter\u2019s 2015 album Pacific Milk, <\/i>Breitenbach has since officially joined the band as their full-time drummer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working on a forthcoming record that doesn\u2019t have a title yet,\u201d says Breitenbach. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a few songs, though. I can see it coming out soon. Now that playing live has come to a halt, we are totally focused on finishing the record.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Breitenbach says he is currently working on seven records in the studio. In addition to Limblifter, Breitenbach is working on a solo album as well as five albums with Greg Valou on their project New Age Doom.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have a recording studio that\u2019s about five minutes from my home in [Vancouver\u2019s] Chinatown,” says Breitenbach. \u201cI spend a lot of time there. I\u2019ve been going full blast on a new album from New Age Doom. The first album came out last year, which was heavy on improv, but we\u2019ve shifted the focus, incorporating more songwriting and microtonal guitars.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Breitenbach says that he still hasn\u2019t seen the first film he and Valou scored because the February premiere was cancelled.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe just finished doing a film score for a period piece\u2014it\u2019s a feminist punk movie,\u201d says Breitenbach. \u201cOne of the things that got cancelled because of the virus was the film premiere that we would have been performing at and seeing the film. It was for a project called Crazy8s in Vancouver. I think the premise is filmmakers have eight days to make a short film. We wrote the theme and scored it. It\u2019s a good way for our music to get out there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond playing with Limblifter and New Age Doom, Breitenbach is working to help develop the local scene with his webseries The Spot Sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s basically like a low-budget KEXP kind of thing I do from my studio,\u201d says Breitenbach. \u201cA lot of people are familiar with that format. It\u2019s a free service for bands looking to produce live content. So many of the venues we played at were closing down, so The Spot Sessions started out of necessity. I just thought it was important to produce live content and document the arts and culture of our city, and with all that\u2019s going on it feels even more important now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This shouldn\u2019t catch anyone off guard, but everything is cancelled. Sadly, rock \u2019n\u2019 roll is no exception. Among the casualties was Vancouver alt-rock band Limblifter\u2019s show on March 27 at Lucky Bar (the show has been rebooked for September 12). In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of musicians have been forced into quarantine, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19313,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19297\/revisions\/19313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}