![\"RichAucoin2_byScottMunn\"](\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/RichAucoin2_byScottMunn.jpg\")
<\/a>Living a nomadic lifestyle touring for the past few years, especially since the popularity of his 2011 album, We\u2019re All Dying to Live<\/i>, Aucoin doesn\u2019t get a lot of time back home. He says during the summer months he\u2019ll be away pretty much every weekend, although it\u2019s a lifestyle that seems to agree with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fun. Everything is constantly in flux, so you have to be comfortable with all kinds of juggling of plans, and I\u2019ve gotten really good at traveling,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n
It’s clear Aucoin is a bit of a social butterfly, with over 500 guest musicians on Aucoin\u2019s latest album, including members of Victoria\u2019s Immaculate Machine and Run Chico Run, and it’s something that doesn\u2019t slow down when he\u2019s on the road. Whether it\u2019s hanging out with locals, or bringing the party along with him, Aucoin definitely isn\u2019t confusing the role of the nomad with that of the loner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI try to bring friends on the road whenever I can,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s this festival I\u2019ve played twice now in Alabama and they put me up in this condo on the beach, so I throw it out to my friends, \u2018If you can make it down to this beach, the whole weekend will be covered.\u2019 So I had 16 friends come down for that last year and it was rad.\u201d<\/p>\n
The current Canadian tour with K-OS has been great for Aucoin as well. Despite having people to meet and hang out with along the way, the slower days in smaller towns (such as Nelson, BC, where we reach him during the day \u201cjust looking for something to do\u201d) has let him connect with the Toronto rapper and singer, as well as K-OS\u2019 backup band.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been fun,\u201d says Aucoin of the tour. \u201cK-OS puts on a really good show and I really get along well with all the members of his band. It\u2019s interesting when you\u2019re on tour and you have friends in each city; it can be distracting for getting to hang out with who you are touring with. But we\u2019ll probably do that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Currently finishing up his third album, Aucoin says it\u2019s going to be almost the exact opposite to his last album: stripped down, faster, and we\u2019re assuming it\u2019s not going to include hundreds of guest musicians.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the last one was such a long, sprawling record, I wanted to make a short, concise one,\u201d he says, \u201cand I also wanted to make a record that documented my high-energy live show, so it\u2019s going to be a 30-minute record with fast BPMs and a lot of gang vocals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wait\u2026 gang vocals? \u201cYeah, I knew I wanted to have a big soccer anthem-type sound for one of the songs, but I wasn\u2019t sure how to achieve that,\u201d he chuckles, \u201cbut then I realized I was playing to so many people last summer that I could just record all of the audiences a cappella during sing-alongs and I could lay them over one another and have this huge gang vocal. So there\u2019s this choir of, like, 20,000 people in the song.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aucoin has gained a reputation of being musically eclectic, with live shows that are a completely different animal, to date, than his recorded material. Constantly challenging himself to come up with new sounds and ideas, Aucoin says he\u2019s always looking ahead and pushing himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should always be striving for the next thing. I\u2019m happy with how things are going so far, but I\u2019ve got other ideas and things I want to do,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m usually thinking two records ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rich Aucoin (with K-OS)
\nWednesday, April 17, 8 pm
\nSugar Nightclub
\natomiqueproductions.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Halifax indie rocker Rich Aucoin has more on his mind than just pumping up an audience when he hits Victoria Wednesday. Currently on a cross-Canada tour opening for K-OS, Aucoin is using the rare opportunity of being on the west coast to indulge in one of his favourite past-times: surfing. \u201cWhen I can’t surf I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6871,"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-6870","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\/6870","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}