The Georgia Straight presents the Black Keys at Deer Lake Park
The Georgia Straight will be presenting a couple of unassuming white boys out of Ohio—better known to all of you as blues-rockers the Black Keys—at Deer Lake Park on June 27.
Long before they were picking up the Grammy for the best alternative album with Brothers, they were on our radar, headlining the Georgia Straight's first Straight Series concert back in 2008.
This time around the duo—vocalist-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney—will be kicking off a Canadian tour with their Vancouver show, in support of that award-winning album (which we can't get enough of around here). Hope you were wise enough to listen to our sound advice when we told you all about the top albums of the year.
Tickets for the Black Keys, and openers Cage the Elephant, are priced at $45 (plus service fees) and go on sale Saturday (February 26), 10 a.m., at Live Nation, but Straight.com readers can take advantage of our presale, which takes place this Friday (February 25) from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., by going here.
If you're as psyched about this one as we are, and want to know how you can win a pair of tickets to the Live Nation show before they go on sale, create an account or sign in with the Straight and leave us a comment below, telling us why the Black Keys rock your world.
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Thank you all for your fantastic responses, but the contest is now closed. Of course there can only be one winner and drum roll please.... Congrats Jessie-Mae!
Comments
26 Comments
rcvan
Feb 22, 2011 at 11:02am
The Black Keys are two guys rocking harder than everyone else combined.
L316H
Feb 22, 2011 at 12:32pm
I once rocked so hard to the Black Keys that one of my eyeballs popped out and rolled around on the floor. I had to get my friend to help me pop it back in and it was super gross because it had American Apparel lint and hipster sweat all over it.
Now give me some tickets, please.
Bensamin
Feb 22, 2011 at 2:11pm
The Balck Keys have renewed my faith in music. Finally a band with feeling!!! I have been listening to them since 2004 and have been awed by them ever since. The closest I have been to seeing them live is watching the 3 songs they performed on Live at Abbey Road in season 2. My girlfriend (will be my wife by then, getting married on June 11th) birthday is on the 24th and tickets would make a great birthday/wedding present.
summer
Feb 22, 2011 at 3:18pm
I just want to be near them to try to suck up some cool.
Someone over there.
Feb 22, 2011 at 4:47pm
I had left my soul in a pinata
inside there was little candy for nourishment
or firecrackers for amusement
every time a birthday was announced
the other pinatas full of sweets and explosions were
picked instead of mine
left dangling from a dusty beam
my soul hung in disrepair
chewing on the rapper of a tootsie roll
from a small stereo by the window
where sunshine would flaunt
came the title track to the Black Key's album Thickfreakness
which surrounded the pinata
applied a pressure, a stirring, a movement
not felt by my soul in years
the heart of my soul
skewered by the acute needled adrenaline of Dan and Pats
finely crafted riffs and rhythms
pressed itself against the confines of its cage
an implosion of freedom
and my soul returned to me
and I was able to stop
writing such
whiny
trite
baloney.
cster
Feb 22, 2011 at 5:56pm
Honestly, I'm trying to win these for my boyfriend. He is a HUGE! fan of the Black Keys...I swear he has been listening to their music almost every day for the past few years-for him, this band is a BIG DEAL and has got him through some rough times.
I would love to surprise him with these tickets!!!
pretty please
Entourage
Feb 22, 2011 at 6:01pm
The Black Keys represents the good feeling that rock and jamming can bring,. even if its just 2 instruments.
loves vancouver summer concerts!
Feb 22, 2011 at 6:46pm
tickets ALREADY on sale if you have an AMEX :-)
glen p robbins
Feb 22, 2011 at 7:59pm
Great band - my daughter bought the CD - I says - darlin' who is this?
Black Keys - very nice indeed.
drea
Feb 22, 2011 at 10:30pm
the very reason i wanted to go to coachella!