Nash The Slash Rises Again! at the Rio Theatre

Name: Nash The Slash Rises Again! at the Rio Theatre
Start: 2026-03-16T18:30:00-07:00
Location: The Rio Theatre

Schedule

Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

The Rio Theatre | Vancouver, BC

NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN! Is a new film that uncovers the sinister Canadian electronic music innovator who took his name from the killer butler in a 1927 Laurel and Hardy silent film. A classically trained violinist and multi-instrumentalist, he created music that was an unlikely combination of prog-rock, punk-rock, classic-rock, psychedelic with techno and industrial before they had names. Deliciously surreal, verging on demented… A mummy wrapped in surgical bandages, an invisible man in full formal white tuxedo and top hat buzz-sawing his violin through endless reams of electronics, melodies and distortion.
His music and image were demanding. His life was rock fantasy.
The end result is an unearthly life drenched in film history enveloped in a wall of sound that would do Phil Spector justice, a career embodied in artistic integrity, courage and the price-tag that comes with it.
Nash The Slash made sounds like nobody else. Iggy Pop called him “so unusual and brilliant.” He was precise and dark, some called him medieval. Lester Bangs of Rolling Stone wrote, “Nash the Slash is the kind of opening act that makes the headliner work that much harder.”
NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN! unwinds the bandages of a ground-breaking, mad musical scientist whose career decomposed before the world caught up.
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#MusicMonday, March 16
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Tickets www.riotheatretickets.ca
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NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN (Tim Kowlaski, 2025 / 80 mins / NR) A documentary about Nash the Slash, a Canadian electronic music innovator. An unearthly film about artistic integrity, courage, and the price-tag that comes with it.
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