{"id":600521,"date":"2026-04-13T05:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600521\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:06:09","slug":"vancouvers-said-the-whale-celebrates-20-years-of-music-on-home-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600521\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver\u2019s Said the Whale celebrates 20 years of music on home turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Vancouver\u2019s Said the Whale celebrates 20 years of music on home turf<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 8:40 pm Sunday, April 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver rock bands that manage to last 20 years or more have reason to celebrate. Said the Whale did just that on Saturday night (April 11) at the Hollywood Theatre, second stop on the band\u2019s 20th-anniversary tour of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The sold-out theatre in Kitsilano was filled with both SaidHeads (super fans) and casual concert-goers, all treated to a diverse set of songs dating back to the band\u2019s roots in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Band co-founding guitarists Tyler Bancroft and Ben Worcester seemed reflective, full of witty banter and simply thrilled to be playing so many memorable songs they\u2019ve written and recorded over the years \u2014\u201cUnAmerican,\u201d \u201cCamilo (The Magician),\u201d \u201cThis City\u2019s a Mess\u201d and \u201cI Love You\u201d among the alt-rock hits.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight Saturday was Bancroft\u2019s acoustic \u201cLevel Best,\u201d an emotional ode to parenting that includes the great line, \u201cIf you start a band, you can use my van\u201d \u2014 probably not the old Chevy tattooed on his arm, but you get the picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur band has grown up with our fans a little bit,\u201d Bancroft told the Georgia Straight pre-gig. \u201cA lot of fans and listeners and supporters have become parents and have kids around the same age as us. I can often see people in the crowd relating to the song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The current version of Said the Whale features Bancroft and Worcester with Lincoln Hotchen on bass, Spencer Schoening on drums, Jaycelyn Brown on keyboards.<\/p>\n<p>Scenes of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saidthewhale?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@saidthewhale<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollywoodYVR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@HollywoodYVR<\/a> on Saturday, in a sold-out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/livenationwest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@livenationwest<\/a> show. <\/p>\n<p>MY REVIEW: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/38f5S92EUf\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/38f5S92EUf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TbG1hAvMzr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/TbG1hAvMzr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Zillich (@TomZillich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomZillich\/status\/2043536499216699821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still in elementary school, the five young members of Blue Jay Valley were born about 10 years into Said the Whale\u2019s 20 as a band. But there they were, punk-rocking it up as show-openers.<\/p>\n<p>The East Van kids started a few years ago at a school talent show, and now they\u2019re amped on a mix of high-speed covers (The Ramones, Hives, Stereophonics) and originals. They\u2019re good now, and will only get better.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, their dads served as roadies but not Grant Lawrence, who had a Smugglers gig of his own over at The American. Proud, all of them, and should be.<\/p>\n<p>The historic Hollywood has emerged as a good venue for concerts, with both theatre seats and room to stand, but on Saturday the lighting was horrible, casting everyone in LED-blue hues. I yearn for old-school spotlights, and I can\u2019t be the only one.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver\u2019s Said the Whale celebrates 20 years of music on home turf Published 8:40 pm Sunday, April 12,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-600521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}