Vancouver

I'm hoping to have this added to the city guides here https://www.reddit.com/r/punk/wiki/city_guides

Thanks to a lot of really good suggestions, here's a guide to Vancouver's punk scene!

Venues

• Pat's Pub - Pub below the Patricia hotel. Lots of seating with a small stage. Lots of jazz, punk, rock, ska, what have you. Food is actually pretty good here especially if you're hungry and drinks are reasonably priced. Cover is about $10 usually

• The Rickshaw - Good venue. Nice big raised stage with a dance floor and theater seating. Basic bar drinks available. $15

• Funky Winker Beans - Probably the hardest and heaviest on this list. I still haven't been to a show here. They also have a lot of metal shows too.

• Hindenburg - Really cool space with two levels and pool tables in the back.

• Wise Hall - Smallish venue with a good size dance floor, stage and bar.

• Media Club - Good size dance floor. Variety of genres. Some couches to sit on. $10-15

• Commodore - Bigger venue. Really popular for bigger name touring bands of various genres. Really good layout with balconies, seating and a big floor. Serves food too I think. Everybody loves this place. $40

• Smiling Buddha Cafe (SBC) - restaurant and skate shop with a skate ramp inside right by the stage, that the crowd hangs out on. Generally people skate during smaller sets or before the show. Pretty small venue, but so much fun.

• The Astoria

• The Cobalt

• Lana Lou's

• Ivanhoe

• Biltmore

• Princeton Pub

• The Imperial

• Anza Club

• Venue - Yes Vancouver has a venue called Venue.

• The Black Lab

• 333

• Franklin Studios

• Red Gate

• Alf House

• the Chateau Noir

Bands

• Gob

• The Deadset

• Dead Soft

• White Lung

• Dayglo Abortions (Victoria!)

• Tubuloids

• War Amp

• The Rekkening

• Waingro

• WTCHDR

• Bishops Green

• Fashionism

• Isotopes Punk Rock Baseball Club

• Vicious Cycles

• DOA

• The Evaporators

• The Jolts

• The Rebel Spell (no longer active due to Todd Serious' death... not sure if they'll do anything in the future)

• Cawama

• Pack A.D.

• The Smugglers

• Japandroids

• Bad Beats

• ATD

• The Corps

• SNFU

• Subhumans

• NoMeansNo

Ska-Punk

• Brass Action

• Kownterpoint

• Rude City Riot

• Los Furios

• Ninjaspy

Folk/Celtic Punk

• Real McKenzies

• The Dreadnoughts (On hiatus? They just played a show some months back but that may have been a one time thing)

Promoters

• Not Yer Buddy

• No Bollocks Events

• Timbre

• Snail

Festivals

• Nootka Sound Festival

• Music Waste Vancouver

• Make Music Vancouver

• East Van Summer Jam

• Khatsalano Street party

• Car Free Day

• Attack of Danger Bay Longboard Festival (Pender Harbour)

• Pemberton Music Festival (Pemberton)

• Squamish Music Festival (Squamish)

• Victoria Ska Fest (Victoria)

• Rifflandia (Victoria)

• Rock the Shores (Colwood)

Record Stores

• Zulu Records

• Red Cat Records

• Highlife Records

• Neptoon Records

• Audiopile

• MadHouse Records (well hidden in the suburbs of Burnaby but has a good punk section)