Advance Base w/ Little Kid and Niloo

Schedule

Sun Mar 09 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Little Fernwood Theatre | Victoria, BC

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Advance Base (Chicago, IL) returns to Victoria alongside indie outfits Little Kid (Toronto, ON), and Niloo (Victoria, BC).
About this Event

Advance Base (Chicago, IL) returns to Victoria supporting his latest record Horrible Occurrences (2024), alongside Toronto based alt-country artist Little Kid and the homespun dream-pop of Niloo (Victoria) at Little Fernwood on Sunday March 9th, 2025.


We acknowledge and respect the W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory we live on as uninvited guests. The Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day, have stewarded this land since time immemorial. We owe this land, and these peoples, our respect, gratitude & dedication to learning & decolonizing ourselves & the spaces we exist in.


🎉 Event Details:

📅 Date: Sunday March 9, 2025

🕖 Time: Doors at 7:30 PM | Music at 8:00 PM

📍 Venue: Little Fernwood

🗺 Address: 1923 Fernwood Road, Victoria BC

🎫 $15 Advance, $20 Door


Venue / Accessibility Details:

  • This is an indoor event, located at 1923 Fernwood Rd (Paul Phillips Hall)
  • Street parking is limited and located on surrounding streets
  • Located on the #22 bus route
  • Wheelchair accessible ground-level venue and washroom. No automatic door button on main entrance. Small incline ramp can be slippery when wet.


Advance Base (Chicago, IL):

Advance Base is the story-song synth-pop project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance Base has been described as "lo-fi," "depressed" & "weirdly uplifting."

Horrible Occurrences is the title of the forthcoming Advance Base album (out December 6, 2024 on Run For Cover / Orindal Records), and there is truth in advertising. In these songs—all centered around a fictional town called Richmond and featuring an interlinked cast of characters—you will hear stories of death and disappearance, climactic confrontations and unsolved mysteries. “Richmond is just this place where all the bad memories live,” Ashworth says with a laugh, and nearly 30 years into his songwriting career, none of his records have packed quite the emotional intensity of this one. And yet something alchemical happens in the telling of these tales. Like a masterful short story collection, Horrible Occurrences is inspiring and alive, idiosyncratic and electric, pulling you closer with each word.

“It’s with no exaggeration we describe Owen Ashworth as one of the most consistent and important songwriters in contemporary indie music. From the earliest Casiotone For the Painfully Alone demos to most recent Advance Base single ‘Little Sable Point Lighthouse‘, Owen has crafted a catalogue of characters and circumstances with few rivals in the modern era. His is an ever evolving body of work which stands out in its deftness and humility and empathy and care, bringing to life individuals from across the spectrum of human experience while remaining unerringly attuned to the tender, fallible heart at the centre of each.”

- Various Small Flames


Little Kid (Toronto, ON):

Little Kid is a Toronto-based collaborative indie rock & alt-country project comprised of Brodie Germain (drums, guitar), Paul Vroom (bass), Megan Lunn (vocals, banjo, keyboard), Liam Cole (drums, percussion), and Kenny Boothby (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards). Kenny Boothby founded the Little Kid project in 2009, self-releasing soft-spoken, homespun solo recordings that slowly attracted a passionately devoted fanbase as the project evolved into a propulsive & dynamic live band & recording collective.

Little Kid's latest album, A Million Easy Payments, was released in early 2024 by Orindal Records.

Little Kid will make their West Coast debut in solo formation in March 2025 supporting Advance Base in the Pacific Northwest!


Niloo (Victoria, BC):

Uniquely otherworldly and humming with fuzzy nostalgia, Niloo blends shoegaze, dream pop, folk and pre-revolution Iranian pop into a fabric of sound. Both a musician and visual artist, Niloo explores these mediums from her home in Lekwungen Territory (Victoria BC).


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Little Fernwood Theatre, 1923 Fernwood Road, Victoria, Canada

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