Creaking Planks

RIP to Bill McNamara, cohost of the Thundering Word series, for being the only poster artist with enough vision to run with a literal take on the unusual gloss for our extraordinary ensemble, "the jug band of the damned". In promotion of a gig at Cafe Montmartre Nov 2008: https://creakingplanks.blogspot.com/2008/11/2008-11-30-creaking-planks-feature-at.html

"Creaking Planks" (Outlaw version) at Wooden Boat Festival , 2019, complete set

09/20/2023

For "Talk Like A Pirate Day" today, to address some questions his kids had about his musical background, Blackbox Squeezebeard dug up this never-before-shared archival recording of the final Creaking Planks set at the Wooden Boat Festival, where all the regular Planks had burned out and he was able to lean on his old Outlaw Band colleagues K-Sun da Bear and "Zippy" Zaenker to give our alt-nautical set one more trot around the, er, reef.

"Creaking Planks" (Outlaw version) at Wooden Boat Festival , 2019, complete set I don't know quite why I recorded this set, and having done so why I sat on it for four years. (I think I harboured vague aspirations to carve it up into in...

09/03/2023

Blackbox Squeezebeard and Dr. Steelhand shared a magical reunion at the Clean Air Festival at Trout Lake yesterday afternoon!

the Creaking Planks (@creakingplanks@redgate.social)

05/23/2023

We may still have nothing further to report (that's a reference to a Randy Newman song we played at the inaugural 2005 ZombieWalk!), but a new place in which to share the empty missives:

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11/23/2022

The jug band of the damned briefly emerge from their grave to tip their hat to more fellow travellers clambering over the boneyard fence, our onetime colleagues at Free Geek Vancouver: http://creakingplanks.blogspot.com/2022/11/rip-free-geek-vancouver-2006-2022.html

10/05/2022

From a dead band to a freshly deceased music venue: our salute to Commercial Drive's - http://creakingplanks.blogspot.com/2022/10/rip-cafe-deux-soleils-1994-2022.html

02/27/2022

“Only half of us are drinking” and it seems that as many of us wound up brewing as well! I’ve never heard of a retired band officially endorsing a cider, but if we had an official cider of the jug band of the damned, it would definitely be ! Tastes like really good apples!

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