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Tuesday December 2 2014
 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• ALL AGES
$10 in advance / $12 at the door 
Courage My Love
ilovecouragemylove.com/wpwarner/
 pop punk
Worth Taking
WorthTaking.com
 Pop / Rock
Air Show Disaster 
www.purevolume.com/airshowdisaster
 post-hardcore/pop/screamo

Courage My Love
Mercedes Arn-Horn - Guitar/ Vocals
Phoenix Arn-Horn - Drums/ Vocals/ Cello
Brandon Lockwood - Bass/ Vocals
-from Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada
-What is courage? When you’re a young rock ‘n’ roll band—courage is throwing yourself into your music fully and completely. It’s stepping onto a stage and just given’r. It’s touring new places far from home, and opening up, scars and all, to your fans. Courage is saying what you really think. It’s being unafraid of change, of becoming who you really are.

Courage My Love is all of these things.

Formed in 2009, they were discovered at a battle of the bands in Stratford, Ontario in early 2010, and were soon signed to Warner Music Canada.
The core of the group are twin sisters Mercedes Arn-Horn and Phoenix Arn-Horn. Both are classically trained in voice, piano, guitar, and cello. Bassist Brandon Lockwood was recruited after original bassist David Blake-Dickson decided to depart from the band, for personal reasons.
They took their band name from a quote in the H.G. Wells movie Things to Come.
They have released three EPs: For Now, For Now (acoustic sessions), and Becoming.
They were named one of the Top 100 Bands You Need to Know in 2012 by Alternative Press Magazine An extended version of their For Now EP was released July 18, 2012 on Grizz Rhythms/Spinning.
To promote their 3rd EP "Becoming", the band produced a 6 part spoof Reality TV show, "The (Un)Real Lives of Courage My Love", which was released on the band's YouTube Channel.
In August 2013 they were featured on the cover of Canadian Musician magazine. The feature article focused on the band's approach to finding success in the new music industry by utilizing social media to interact with fans all over the world.

They were nominated for 'Best breakthrough group of the year' in the 2014 Juno Awards  



Worth Taking
Chris: Lead Bass
Jerod: Vocals, Guitar
Theo: Lead Drums
Tim: Lead Guitar
-from SF
-Nerds in a pop-punk band.
Like many passionate songsters before him, Jerod McBrayer listened to Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American and it changed his life. His heart pounded, his veins pumped what felt like strawberry syrup, and his body felt like he was in one of those dreams where you try to run but your legs move like marshmallows. He loved it and wanted to create it.

As a creative outlet to his Atlanta punk bands, Jerod began exploring what has become Worth Taking’s sound. He loved the infectious energy of punk music, but was drawn to the way power pop-punk bands sweetened the raw punk sound to create something addictively tuneful. The pop-oriented sound also allowed him to show off his sugary vocals and explore deeper lyrical themes, such as love, hope and our ongoing struggle with morality.

In 2011, Jerod recorded Worth Taking’s first EP, singing all vocals and playing each instrument. The Anxious EP turned out to be a well-rounded five-song power pop-punk record that showcased Jerod’s command of simple, irresistible melodies, while preserving the electrifying energy of punk music. His lyrics related effortlessly to the challenges of post adolescent life, without the whiny, post-breakup discourse so prevalent in many pop-punk songs. After promoting Anxious at the Cornerstone Festival, he decided that if he was ever going to find quality band members who shared his passion, he needed to head west.

Drawn to the Bay Area for its reputation of spawning countless great bands, Jerod settled on San Francisco. He first met Theo Logian, who had virtually played in every Bay Area band since the late 1990s. Theo introduced Jerod to Tim Reeder and Chris Self, who both had extensive experience in their respective punk bands, including Chris’ stint playing in the Adeline Records band, Fetish. The four quickly meshed and spent 2012 touring, writing and recording.

The new lineup also supercharged Worth Taking’s live show. Jerod’s refined vocals were finally teamed with a vibrant energy, solidifying Worth Taking as an exciting live band without the disjointed missteps of a party band—you won’t get soaked in beer if you nestle up to the front of their stage, but your girlfriend might get a few drops on her Converse.

While Jerod still wrote all the songs, the band’s second EP, Oddly Pacific, finally featured all four band members. At the end of 2012, the band streamed its first single, “I Like the Movie Version Better,” which Pittsburg Music Magazine called, “a post power punk romp that has the feel of Taking Back Sunday mating with My Freshman Year.” The band followed the single with a fully produced video in January 2013, which received almost 1000 views in its first 24 hours on YouTube.

In 2014 Worth Taking has released two albums: Punker Than Thou (in May) and Art Imitates Art (in August)



Air Show Disaster
Jon Long (vocals and guitar), Aaron Hurst (guitar and vocals), Jay Ergil (bass), and Ian Hartley (drums)
-from SF
-The band has recorded several EPs at Popsmear Studios in San Rafael and has been a fixture in the Bay Area rock scene for several years.
-Sounds Like: Thrice, Saosin, 30 Seconds to Mars, Rise Against, Pierce The Veil
-Exploding into the music scene with so much mad explosive-ness ASD quickly gained millions of fans!!! Before long, people were talking about them at every social gathering... thus spreading the word of such madness!! Many have been quoted as saying "this band saved my life" and "wow... just wow"! Now at the peak of what could only be described as a peak that would only grow with time... ASD has done their biggest event yet!!! What kind of move could create such a buzz, such controversy... and so many women getting ASD tattoos? The secret is... ASD took those fragile pieces of art they created with ordinary instruments... and laid them down onto recording tape in the recording lab... forever permanentalizing the beauty which should not be allowed to last forever... but was!!! Thanks the heavens or just thank ASD. Expect ASD to explode all over you very soon with their massive hardcore hardness!!!