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5 days ago
- Entertainment
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Pōneke Punk Band Love Party Release Debut Album WOW!
Pōneke punk band Love Party release their debut album WOW! alongside a music video for the lead single 'Wow It's So Beautiful'. Led by Kate Yesberg and Dayle Jellyman, their fuzzy alt-punk and power-pop slanted music conjures up the atmosphere of a children's birthday party for well-dressed adults with a healthy irreverence towards the status quo. Energetic, mischievous and down-to-earth, they combine tasty guitar figures and cheeky duo vocals with driving drums and basslines that get the dancefloor moving. Having been married for a decade before they started the band, Kate and Dayle bring a close, comfortable chemistry to their songcraft. Recorded at Dr Lee Prebble's Surgery studio facility in Newtown with Cory Champion (Clear Path Ensemble) on drums, WOW! is a timestamped document of everything the denim and leather-clad couple has learned about love in its many forms. Avoiding anything overt or prescriptive, they revel in giving themselves full permission to enjoy life's simple pleasures with wild-eyed gusto and abandon. The album comprises 8 full-power tracks, featuring previously released singles 'Hit It', 'Moonbaby' and 'I Don't Wanna Leave'. The lead single, 'Wow It's So Beautiful', was penned after witnessing the magic of window seat views from a domestic plane flight on a sunny day. In the music video, filmed in Wellington, Love Party is beyond excited about the beauty of birds until, would you believe it, Dayle himself becomes a bird. When they first started Love Party, Kate and Dayle decided to dive into the freedom of the unknown and learn new instruments, guitar and bass, respectively. Having both played in rock and punk bands in their teens, that shared experience allowed them to reconnect with the playful naivety of their salad days. Between the restrictions and energy this generated, they found a creative wellspring. It doesn't run wide, but it runs deep, and in those depths, they've found everything they need. 'We started jamming along with a Roland drum machine in our apartment, jumping about, looking for the fuzziest fuzz, lyrics that just fell out and felt great. Singing in unison just happened and evolved into a real feature of the music,' says Yesberg. The album is a 'time-stamped document of everything we've learned about love so far, from the romantic, to the ridiculous, to the universal.' Outside of Love Party, Kate is a well-respected abstract painter and former lawyer turned musician. Her counterpart, Dayle, is a longstanding keyboardist who plays piano and synthesiser with a who's who of party-rocking Wellington bands, including Miles Calder, Battle Ska Galactica, Fvkvshima, and The Electrons, as well as leading the celebrated Floating Head jazz ensemble. WOW! is available now on all streaming platforms. See Love Party live at their debut show at the Lōemis Midwinter Festival on 21 June in Wellington.
Vancouver Sun
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Vancouver Sun
From the edge of your seat to Dreamland: Tales from Whitecaps fans on the road
'You can't do that here.' It only took a moment for Kris Aug to realize the surly cohort of gun-toting, severe-faced New York cops confronting his small group of Vancouver Whitecaps fans were, in fact, absolutely serious. They didn't take kindly to the singing of Boundary Road in the middle of Times Square, and rankled at the Southsiders' scarves being held triumphantly in the air. Sure, these Canadian visitors were amped after the Whitecaps rallied to beat New York Red Bulls 2-1 in a 2013 game. The group of 20 or so included former Caps players David Norman — both Jr. and Sr. — though the younger was only 14 at the time. But they were straying into dangerous territory. 'Afterwards, we all went to Times Square, a bunch of us holding up our Southsider scarves, and we started singing. The NYPD came over and told us to stop, because they thought we were trying to incite a riot,' Aug said, chuckling. Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. 'I was confused at first. I thought they were joking, to be honest. Then when we saw they were serious, we stopped. … We explained what was going on and they said 'congrats on the win, but don't do that here.' We just stopped, took pictures of the square instead, and then went to a three-story Irish pub. 'I don't remember much after that,' he added with a laugh. Aug has been to, by his count, 67 Vancouver Whitecaps away matches since the team joined Major League Soccer in 2011. He's planning to hit Winnipeg for next Tuesday's Canadian Championship game against Valour, and then will be packing his bags for the biggest road fixture in team history: the CONCACAF Champions Cup game in Mexico City against Liga MX giants Cruz Azul. While the Whitecaps won't be arranging a fan charter for the June 1 game at Estadio Olímpico Universitario — the logistics were the biggest issue, not budget, the team said — there will still be a healthy number of Whitecaps fans heading down. Here are some of the team's supporters who will be making the biggest road trip in team history: Wyatt Tierney has never been to Mexico. He's never even been to a Whitecaps away game. He can check off both boxes at the end of the month. There are fans with dozens of away matches under their belts, but Tierney isn't one of them. He is, in fact, a recent convert to the team. He and his girlfriend, Dayle, started dating four years ago, and being a huge sports fan, took her to Canucks, Lions, Canadians, and Warriors games. She enjoyed them, but it was clear they weren't her thing. Then they took in the LAFC-Vancouver playoff game of 2023, and Dayle was hooked. 'The first year of dating, you're still learning about each other. You're still learning each other's interests and everything,' said Tierney. 'I took her to that Whitecaps-LAFC playoff game, the one where Vanni (Sartini) got ejected, and that woman was on her feet for the full 90 minutes, screaming at the refs, enjoying getting into it with the crowd. She was alive; like she came alive in the moment. I went, 'how did I not think of taking her to a soccer game. She grew up playing soccer?'' That led to season's tickets in the Southside the following year, and every season since, signing up for the Southsiders, kissing after every home goal, and taking their moms to the game for Mother's Day. And now, Mexico. Q: Are you ready to witness what a soccer game is like in Latin America? A: I'll be real with you, no. I've seen a video on YouTube, I've seen the Instagram reels. But there's a big difference between looking at something through your eight-inch phone, and being in the middle of it. So I can't say it's anything I've experienced or been prepared for previously. … It will be an experience unlike one I've ever had. Q: What are you expecting to happen in the game? A: I'm drinking the Kool-Aid. I'm all in. I believe. Sometimes the stars align and magical things happen. I know this because I am also a lifelong Toronto Raptors fan, and six years ago, would have never told you it was even a chance that they would have won the NBA championship. Sometimes the stars align, you can feel it, and you just gotta ride that wave to shore. … The Whitecaps have proven this year, time and time again, when they are doubted, they prove themselves. They punch above their weight class. They are the best. They are head over heels, the best team in the MLS. So why not? Q: What's been your experience as a Whitecaps fan so far? A: I did not know that through the idea of a gift that I would create one of the most cherished experiences in our relationship. We loved it so much, having a date night every few weeks, doing this thing that we could take our friends to and everybody kind of get behind. (The Southsiders are) an amazing group of people. All of them are very welcoming … and really helped us insert ourselves into the culture of the team. We really love the energy and atmosphere of it all. I could not have told you a year or two before that I would ever care this much for this soccer team, but it's my favourite thing to do in this city. It's crazy. From watching Eric Hassli kiss the crest after scoring in the Whitecaps 4-2 win over Toronto FC at Empire Stadium — the club's very first MLS game — to standing in a torrential downpour in Denver, thunder and lightning crashing down around him and Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Kyle Braun has seen some memorable moments with the club. 'There's been some highlights. There's been some lowlights along the way, too,' said the Vancouver resident. 'But nothing quite like this, though.' He and 20 friends/colleagues slapped down the $50 deposit for season tickets the day after it was announced the Whitecaps were moving to MLS in 2011, and he's stayed true for the last 15 years. Including the infamously rained-out game in Denver, where Braun live-tweeted the delay until it was ultimately cancelled, he's been to 12-15 cities and 25 away games. Heck, he's even been to a Chivas USA game. Of all that he's seen, this year just feels different. 'It's not like years gone by, the Carl Robinson era of one-nil wins, where you spend 88 minutes dancing on needles and just really nervous around everything. They just look super confident. 'It's taken a few months now watching this to get past that sense of dread of like every lead could be a collapse, or if the other team scores, we're never going to be able to find a way back, because we're just going to do the long ball. 'This team just looks different. New coach, new tactics. It's going to take the fans a little bit more time to get used to the fact that this team is top of the table. They are in the finals. 'They're not giant killers like years gone by — they are the giants this year. I really can't wait to be in Mexico to watch the final.' Q: You were in Miami for the second leg of the semifinal. How did that compare to travelling sections of years past? A: Back in the early days of travel, Seattle and Portland away, those matches were very well attended. But, man, we had the full section in Miami. It's been a lot of years since I've seen a full section of Whitecaps fans from the front row to the top row. That was amazing. Great fun. Everyone was really into it again. Fans, family, friends, just a great atmosphere all around, and the club did not disappoint. It was a nerve-racking game. It's close. Miami is making a good effort. … When that first (Vancouver) goal went in and bounced off the post, all the stress left your body. The crowd just started having fun. I don't think we had even finished celebrating and that second one went in, and that's Dreamland. That's us through to the final at that point. The third one was just gravy. It was just a party after that.' Q: Of all the Whitecaps travelling you've done, you've never been to a game outside of Canada or the U.S., what are you expecting? A: I like soccer a lot, and I travel a lot, so I've been games in Central America, South America, Europe, so I kind of have some idea what to expect — but never (as someone) cheering for the away team in those places. I think everyone makes a really big deal of it. … I think in MLS, security is a bit of an afterthought. People don't fully understand what the rivalry of soccer can be like. I think in Latin American countries, they absolutely know how wild things can get, and they bring security appropriate to that. There's going to be enough cops there to invade a small country. I feel like we'll be pretty well protected. It'll be interesting and passionate and animated, but not unsafe in any way.' Q: Where does this road trip rank among those you've taken? A: It'll be one of the best, if not the best, away trip that I've done, and I've done a few. It's amazing that they've made it this far. It is CONCACAF, and I understand that. This is the Champions League final. This is the Libertadores final, for North America. It's amazing. I cynically look back to when the Whitecaps came into the league in 2011 and the Whitecaps ownership said 'we want to be a top 25 team.' I think that's been pretty derisively thrown back around on social media and in fan circles being like, 'we're not even close to that.' But if they win this, they get a birth in the 2029 Club World Cup … and 24 teams make that. So that, I think, would firmly entrench them is the top 25 teams in the world. It will have been a quite a 15 year journey to get there. It's a huge accomplishment for this team. It's been fun to be on the ride, and I hope it ends with a win. Rod Coleman is going to Mexico City. Again. While the Whitecaps were taking care of business against Inter Miami in the second leg of their CCC semifinal, Coleman was handling his own business 3,500 km away in Mexico City. In the gargantuan metropolis for a work trip, he sat in his hotel room watching the game. The day after, he watched Cruz Azul knock off Tigres in the other semifinal. 'My buddy and I, who's coming to the game as well … We're sitting in our hotel room in Mexico City booking planes back to Mexico City,' he said, chuckling at the memory. He's part of a group of 15 other Caps fans that has travelled together for years and will be headed to Mexico, too. 'We're all a mix of season-ticket holders. We've been going for years. But obviously this one is the big one, right? So everybody was like, 'Yeah, we're doing it,'' he said. 'There's still other people trying to get time off work and stuff. So there maybe even more by the time we get there.' As a supporter of the team since its days at Swangard, this isn't Coleman's first rodeo. It's not even his first big CCC game. He and one other friend went to the 2017 semifinal in Monterrey against Tigres, and had the experience of being the only away fans in the stadium. Ironically, the first game he saw this year was the first leg of their round of 16 game against the other Monterrey team, the Rayados. He was struck by how different this year's squad looked. 'The transformation has been … it's hard to put into words, when you look at the levels that they're playing at now compared to what we've played at previously,' he said. 'I always feel like the heart and the will was always there, but the management style, the discipline, the tactics, was never really, really there. 'I watch a lot of football, you could see it immediately that, 'oh, they are thrilled now they know what they're doing.' Each player has got a total game plan, rather than an overall team plan. 'The way that they work together, the way that they press from high up in the field. I've never seen that before, not even from the Whitecaps, but in MLS. 'I said, if they play like this all season, they're gonna come really close to winning the MLS.' Q: You watched the Miami game. Now you're going to Mexico. What do you make of this run? A: I don't know if the level of football knowledge in North America appreciates how difficult it is to travel that distance and then play that well. To win away from home (in Miami) on a continent that's so big is really difficult. I mean, honestly, you don't want to say that they're gonna go win it (in Mexico). To go to a final away from home, even in a mutual venue, is hard enough, but to go and do it in somebody else's backyard is another level of difficulty. I think in many ways that's going to help the Whitecaps because the pressure really is off. Anybody who understands the game is not gonna is not going to expect them to go and win that game. All the pressure is on the Mexicans. Any other time in the history of the Whitecaps, I would have said, 'Hey, we're probably gonna get buried. Let's just enjoy the just enjoy the fact that we that we got here.' But there's something in me that says they might do it. They've given us no reason to not think they can go and get a result. They've gone to really hard places and got a result everywhere so far. Q: How'd you end up a Whitecaps supporter — and an regular traveller at that? A: When the Whitecaps came to the MLS, I really wanted to create a core unit of supporters that would just travel everywhere, so that the Whitecaps would consistently have the biggest away following in the MLS,' said Coleman, a huge Liverpool fan who still has his season tickets at Anfield despite not living there for the last 15 years. Because, especially in 2010, there wasn't really anything like that, the large numbers. I just thought it'd be so cool if we could just get a core of like 50 odd-people so we could have 25, 30 an away game every week. We didn't quite make it. But that was the motivation. Then it just became an opportunity to go and see places that, I wouldn't otherwise go. I would never go to Salt Lake, but I'll go spend a weekend there and take in the game. Q: There may be a chance that Mexico City will be alcohol-free that weekend because of the election happening at the same time. What's your plan? 'Maybe we need to take a quick stop at the duty free store in the airport before we before we exit. But, we'll find a way. Let's just say we'll be well-oiled by the time kickoff comes around.' He was there when the complimentary ponchos showered down onto the Empire Stadium pitch, tossed by happy Caps fans in their inaugural match. He was there as part of the 300-plus strong friends, family and fans stacked the bleachers in Miami as the Caps saw off Messi. Kris Aug has seen everything in-between, and after seeing every single stadium in MLS as part of his near 70 away games, but he's never seen this: a CCC game outside of North America. 'It's going to be a very interesting one. Mexican fans are always super passionate, and I love that,' he said. 'As important as soccer — football — is to me and to other Whitecaps supporters, it's another level when it's so ingrained in a culture like in Mexico. Even just casual people on the street know exactly what's going on. It's a level of ingrained cultural intensity that I'm really excited to see.' Q: Are you worried about security? Obviously the questions come around. I've never been to a game like this, and immediately you start hearing people like, 'oh my god, Mexican soccer. Aren't you worried that there's going to be riots and fights and stuff?' I don't think it's going to be like that. I can't see it being like that. But you never know. The back of my mind is like, 'what level of security do I need to be worried about? Could I walk around in Mexico City with my Caps kit the day before? Are people are going to start harassing me? When I go to the games in the states here, most people wouldn't even know what the kit is, and if they do, they'll give me some friendly banter. But then you never know what that's going to be like in a different country. Q: You've famously been the only Whitecaps fan in attendance at many away games. What's the worst experience you've had as an away fan? A: Most of the time it's some group of kids sneaking into our section to steal a flag or a scarf or a banner. That's usually about as bad as it goes. Yeah, it's annoying, and security should be doing a better job, or whatever, but like, at the end of the day, nobody got hurt. They got a $30 banner. I'm just gonna paint another one. I'm on my ninth or 10th Canadian flag at this point. The worst was the first home game that Orlando ever had at their Orange Bowl stadium, and there was a bunch of guys that were harassing us. … These people were coming around from their supporter section, standing right behind us, within arms reach, and they were yelling stuff at us. And I don't mean like the friendly banter kind of stuff, where we can deal with it was aggressive. They were actually verbally threatening to to harm some people in our group after the game. And I don't mean vague threats. 'We're going to find you. We're gonna do this, we're gonna do that. Just watch out. I saw you. You got that rental car over here.' They knew details about what car we came up with. It's one thing to threaten people, but they were being way too specific, and one of the people they were threatening happened to be like a 16-year-old kid. I basically had to spend the entire second half making sure that security and the police were doing what we were guaranteed under the MLS rules. I didn't even see the second half of the game. I have no idea what happened. Like, I'm pretty sure we won, but I don't know for sure. (Editor's note: Octavio Rivero scored in the 96th minute of the 1-0 win on March 21, 2015, that saw five yellow cards assessed on Vancouver) Q: You've lived in Toronto for a decade now; how are you still a Whitecaps fan? A: Why would I cheer for TFC? What a mess that organization is. No, this is, this is one of those situations where the rivalry is deeper than football. It's the inter-Canada rivalry. It's everybody against Toronto. I could never to be a TFC fan for various reasons, but the Whitecaps are my team, and I'm never going to turn my back on them. … It's also really satisfying to watch Toronto talk about how great they are and then fail miserably. It is very satisfying. There's a lot of schadenfreude in this opinion. Q: What's your take on the team fan culture now? A: It's amazing how many people still know me as the travel guy. 'Oh, you're the Whitecaps superfan.' I haven't been there in so long, and people still know who I am. It's incredible. … But it's really exciting that there's this new generation coming out as well. You know, Peter (Czimmermann, Southsiders president) has done a fantastic job with what the Southside is doing. He's bringing in an intensity and a dedication that can't be rivalled. These Albion kids that are coming up, they started when they were like 16, and now they're in their mid 20s; basically, they're the next generation of what I was doing. It's just great to see that it's not just my generation going through there's actually people coming up behind … It's fantastic to see. I absolutely love it. jadams@
