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You asked for it. You got it! Ryan Keating returns to ....Vancouver....’s premier nightclub to followup the release of his debut solo CD, "Pleasure to Burn."

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Cover will be $7 at the door or you can get a free ticket from one of the band members.  Tickets will be available very soon – ticket release date to be announced.

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Even with the ticket you will pay $7 at the door but with the ticket you also get a free drink before 9pm.

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For a free ticket email ryankeatingca@yahoo.ca. Take the ticket. Take the ride AGAIN baby! Today, in your hearing, the rock n` roll resurrection is fulfilled.

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Ryan Keating and the Sons of Kain

8:00pm, Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Roxy Nightclub

....932 Granville Street....

....Vancouver.., ..BC.. ..V6Z 1L2....

Ryan Keating and the Sons of Kain are in the newspaper once again, this time for their Oct 29 pre-Halloween costume-dance party extravaganza at the Ocean Beach Club in White Rock.

Here's a link to the online version of the article:

http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/peacearchnews/entertainment/65614962.html

And here again are the details of the show:

Ryan Keating and the Sons of Kain
Innocent Bystander
Gemini Side

October 29^th, 2009, 9pm
The ....Ocean.... ....Beach.... Club
........14995 Marine Drive........
White ........Rock...., ....BC.... ....V4B 1C3........
(604) 531-0672
Tickets: $10

See you in White Rock next week!

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The rock n' roll resurrection really began in White Rock, ....British Columbia...., the small town near the U.S. Border where Ryan Keating lived throughout his teenage years. 

This is the place where he began his lifelong obsession with rock n' roll, at the Western Edge of the Continent, the end of the line, the terminus of the great Canadian Railway by the shores of the ..Pacific Ocean...

Last year, Ryan Keating and the Sons of Kain played an acoustic show at the Spirit of the Sea Festival at ....White.. ..Rock.. ..Beach..... 

This year, on October 29, Ryan returns to White Rock with his full band, the Sons of Kain, to play White Rock's premier night spot: the Ocean Beach Club. 

October 29^th, 2009, 9pm
The ..Ocean.. ..Beach.. Club
....14995 Marine Drive....
White ....Rock.., ..BC.. ..V4B 1C3....
(604) 531-0672
Tickets: $10 – Available at the Door or From the Bands After October 15

Ryan Keating and the Sons of Kain
Innocent Bystander
Gemini Side

It's a pre-Halloween party so bring your best costume and join in the mad revelry of Ryan's homecoming and the Rock n' Roll Resurrection.  For today, in your hearing, it is fulfilled.

The CD Release Party for our debut album, Pleasure to Burn, is only 4 days away!

Friday, September 18th, 2009
The Railway Club
....579 Dunsmuir Street..
..Vancouver.., ..BC....
(604) 681-1625

Doors: 9pm
Show: 10pm

Cover: $10

And to celebrate we're featuring one more song from the album here on the band MySpace: "Time Killing a Memory."

This was the last song I wrote for the album and I feel it's the culmination of some of the many varied songwriting influences that went into the album.

It has the greatest meaning for me out of any of the songs on the record.

It's a song about personal devastation, loss and recovery.  It was written in a dark period of struggle in my life, but the last verse ends on a hopeful note, foreshadowing the transformations that were to occur in my life a short time later.

The strangely appropriate, haunting instrument you hear throughout the song is a bowed saw - the kind used to cut down big trees - played by Aaron Chapman, an idea I got from the soundtrack to the film adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

I hope you enjoy the song and hope you'll come and join me this Friday at the Railway Club.

The Official CD Release Party is just 10 days away and, as promised, in the lead-up to the release we're featuring another song from the record, "Pleasure to Burn."  This week's featured song is 'Baghdad Blast.'

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I got the idea for this song in 2004.  It hadn’t been long since the ....U.S..... coalition had defeated the armies of Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush had given his famous “mission accomplished speech” on board the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.  And it seemed like everyday on CNN there was some new insurgent attack in ....Baghdad.... or some place in the Sunni Triangle.    I got the feeling, “this is no mission accomplished; this war is going to go on for a long time.”

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So I wrote this song, Baghdad Blast, which plays on a double entendre for the word blast and turns the whole thing into a sort of black comedy party.  It’s a song in the fabulist tradition of the Clash’s Rock the Casbah.  In Casbah, the Clash takes a real event, the banning of rock music by the Ayatollah of Iran, and creates a fable around it.  In the Clash’s song, the population of ....Iran.... defies the ban and proceeds to rock the casbah.  In Baghdad Blast, well, you’ll see...

As the song says, George's Bush is really out of control on this one and the first person who can correctly identify the Chadley Erik mentioned in the song wins the coveted No-Prize.

Enjoy and we'll see you at the CD Release Party:

Friday, September 18th, 2009
The Railway Club
579 Dunsmuir Street
Vancouver, BC
(604) 681-1625

Doors: 9pm
Show: 10pm

Cover: $10

The long awaited CD Release Party is finally here!

I.M.U. Productions Proudly Presents

The official release party for Ryan Keating and the Sons of Kain's debut album: Pleasure to Burn

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Ryan Keating and the Sons of Kain hit the stage tomorrow night at the Roxy in Downtown Vancouver to play a 90 minute set starting at 8pm sharp.

And to commemorate the occasion they're featuring another new song from the debut record – Pleasure to Burn - here on the band MySpace.  The song is called “Datin' a Model.”

This one is a fan favorite, with catchy hooks and a fun duet theme.  The exceptional female lead vocalist you hear in the duet is the amazing Debra Jean Creelman, veteran of the top tier Canadian band Mother Mother.

Enjoy and see you tomorrow night at the Roxy!

Thursday, July 16th, 2009
8:00pm
the Roxy Nightclub
....932 Granville Street....

....Vancouver.., ..BC....

Cover: $7

Once again, to honor our return to the live music scene in Vancouver, we're posting a new song to the band MySpace.  It's Track #8 from our debut album, Pleasure to Burn, and the song is called "The Familiar Stranger." 

This song owes a lot to the great blues rock songwriter Willie Dixon, and in particular to his song “Back Door Man,” which he wrote for Howlin’ Wolf in 1961 and which was a regular cover song of the Doors after they recorded it on their own debut album in 1967. 

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In Southern Culture, the term Back Door Man started in the 1920’s and refers to a man who has sex with a married woman and uses the back door as his escape route.  Only later did it take on the double entendre meaning of anal intercourse.  The theme has echoed throughout the blues rock tradition from Charlie Patton to Led Zeppelin.

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The Familiar Stranger carries on that tradition.  I’d also like to note, if I may, that my song The Familiar Stranger might be the first time in the Back Door Man tradition that someone has used the word "major-leaguer" to describe a woman.  I’m actually kind of absurdly proud of that lyric.  The band really gets down on this one and I hope you enjoy it.

Hear it how on the band MySpace!

Hear it LIVE at the Roxy Vancouver, Thursday July 16th at 8pm!!

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In honour of our return to the ....Vancouver.... live music scene and the pending official release of our debut album, “Pleasure to Burn,” we are posting another new song from the album here on the band MySpace: the House of Lords.

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I was working in ..Las Vegas.. when I got the idea for this song, staying in one of the older (and now cheaper) hotels: the ..Sahara...  The ..Sahara.. has a storied history and the walls still echo some of the great acts that have graced the stage there – Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, even the Beatles.

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There is a great steakhouse restaurant there called the House of Lords, and at the end of the day nothing hit the spot like drinks and steaks at the House of Lords.  In the song, the House takes on a mythic meaning, coming to symbolize every bar and beerhall, every taproom and tavern, every gin mill, alehouse and watering hole in the world, every place a tired boy or girl can go at the end of a weary day in the rat race of the world, and raise their glasses and their voices forgetting the world and all its troubles for a little while.

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The song has a ZZ-Top meets Roadhouse Blues kind of feel that I hope you’ll enjoy as much as I do and the bridge has a definite Allman Brothers groove goin’ on. 

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And speaking of groove, this is Ian’s favourite song on the record to play live; it’s got a sweet shuffle groove he loves to get down to on the bass.

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It’s also the only song on the record with a swingin’ horn section.

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Like the House of Lords itself, I think it’s just a lot of fun!

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Enjoy and can’t wait to see you at the Roxy, Thursday July 16^th at 8pm sharp!

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ryan