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Feeling lucky, punks of Victoria? Then Calgary\u2019s No Brainer, Powell River\u2019s Electric Brains, and locals Pooched are ready for you on September 7.<\/p>\n

No Brainer vocalist Mike Grant is excited to come back to Victoria\u2014he\u2019s previously played at Logan\u2019s Pub and Phoenix Bar & Grill in his other bands, but this is his first time coming to Victoria with No Brainer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The members of No Brainer have known each other for years\u2014Grant met guitarist Bill Kerr and drummer Tom Kapiczowski in Grade 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all met in junior high, and my first band ever was actually with them, called Mossleigh,\u201d says Grant. \u201cSo I\u2019ve known them the better part of my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Calgary-based punk rockers No Brainer are playing at Lucky Bar on Saturday, September 7 (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No Brainer is made up of most of the members of Mossleigh, with bassist Marcus Wodrazka joining the lineup in 2018; Grant met Wodrazka in audio engineering school. Together, their influences are united, falling under the general umbrella of melodic punk.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of our biggest influences are this band called the Swingin\u2019 Utters. They\u2019re on Fat Wreck Chords, they\u2019ve been around for a long time,\u201d he says. \u201cThey have that East Bay Area punk sound that I would say is similar to Calgary punk. We\u2019re influenced by bands like Bad Brains, Cock Sparrer, even Bad Religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grant is optimistic about the future of his hometown punk scene, as it\u2019s made a major comeback since the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cPre-COVID, it was a bit on the decline. There wasn\u2019t as many new bands or even people going to shows,\u201d says Grant. \u201cRecently, there\u2019s this crop of young kids that are just killing it. There\u2019s so many new bands popping up, and the scene feels very united. Everyone\u2019s super supportive of each other, and the shows are just bonkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

No Brainer\u2019s debut album, Dead Weight<\/i>, was released on Outhouse Records in the spring of 2024, recorded with a BC connection: Vancouver-based producer Jesse Gander, who has played in Victoria many times himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s our first LP. We recorded it out at Rain City Records the previous year with Jesse Gander. I\u2019ve done multiple releases with lots of bands over the years, but this one is probably the one I\u2019m most proud of. We really worked hard on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the achievements don\u2019t stop there: No Brainer recently got to open up for Circle Jerks and Adolescents in Calgary.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty much a dream come true,\u201d says Grant. \u201cThey\u2019re two of my favourite \u201880s hardcore bands. [Circle Jerks vocalist] Keith Morris is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time they get to Victoria, No Brainer will have toured Eastern Canada, playing Toronto and Ottawa on Labour Day weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can come out to see us, please do,\u201d says Grant. \u201cIt\u2019ll be a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n

No Brainer
\n7 pm Saturday, September 7
\n$15, Lucky Bar
\nluckybar.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feeling lucky, punks of Victoria? Then Calgary\u2019s No Brainer, Powell River\u2019s Electric Brains, and locals Pooched are ready for you on September 7. No Brainer vocalist Mike Grant is excited to come back to Victoria\u2014he\u2019s previously played at Logan\u2019s Pub and Phoenix Bar & Grill in his other bands, but this is his first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25724,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-september-3-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723","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=25723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25725,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723\/revisions\/25725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}