Vailhalen, Salt Horse, The Lovebullies & Heartbreak Etctera celebrate the vinyl release of ‘The Suburbanators’ for the first time by preforming the songs of The Primrods, Wagbeard, Field Day, Maud, The Parkades and more. Plus special guests Forbiden Dimension as Forbiden Dimension and guest selector DJ Wah.
Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary
http://thepalomino.ca/
18+ with government issued identification
When: Saturday December 20th, 2025
Doors: 8:00pm / Action 8:30pm
Admission: Advance – $20 at www.showpass.com / Doors – $30 or $25 with a donation for the Calgary Food Bank
The Suburbanators
The Suburbanators is a Canadian road movie/comedy film written and directed by Gary Burns and produced in 1995 by Burns and John Hazlett. It tells the story of bored, estranged slackers in their 20s who spend their time in suburban strip-malls, subdivisions and car lots in Calgary. The film was made for CDN$65,000. It was invited to play at the Sundance Film Festival and sold to the Sundance Channel. It is the first of what writer George Melnyk calls a trilogy which concludes with Kitchen Party (1998) and waydowntown (2000).
Bob and Al are passing time by driving around and looking for marijuana. In another part of town, two other young men, Eric and Carl, are also trying to buy drugs. A group of three musicians are at a Middle Eastern restaurant. They go to the suburbs to find a relative after they accidentally get their instruments locked up in an apartment. Carl starts a fight with a novelist and Eric almost gets arrested for drugs in a police raid and then Eric starts a fight with the musicians. Carl and Bob steal some drugs.
Variety noted the “sharp editing and tight control of actors” and the use of “[b]leached colors, oblique camera angles and bargain-basement lighting”. The film, which was aimed at male Generation X viewers, showed the unromantic drabness and pettiness of life in the suburbs in Western Canada, a stark contrast to the majestic mountains often shown in postcards. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Suburbanators
The Lovebullies
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Vailhalen
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Salt Horse
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Heartbreak Etctera
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Forbiden Dimension
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Burns Film
Gary Burns is a Calgary based writer and director who has been making documentary and narrative feature films for over twenty years. He’s best known for The Suburbanators, Kitchen Party, waydowntown, and Radiant City. His most recent work includes Flexie! All The Same and All Different and Man Running.
https://www.burnsfilm.ca
Wild Rose Brewery
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Calgary Underground Film Festival
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