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It's Monday February the 4 around 9:10AM and

Vancouver Concert Listings: Mardi Gras Edition

January hasn’t been the kindest month for the pocketbook. Your credit-card statement from the holidays left you wondering why in the hell you spend large bills on people you can’t stand. Your RRSP account went down like a champagne bottle on New Year’s Eve thanks to the Yanks’ wacky concept on how to pay for a house (or not). And you had to shell out a couple of hundred on those snow tires you should’ve bought four months ago.

Now, Mardi Gras is coming up and you’re in the mood to get funky. But you want to keep it cheap and casual. Luckily, this past weekend one of the best bands going was in town. Had the deadbeat editor been able to post, he would have been able to tell you about this Friday:

"For just $13.50, you can get in Saturday night to see Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. The notoriety of the bluesy Vermont band is rising fast Stateside. Their 2007 release “This is Somewhere” finished sixth in the year-end listener poll at WDST, the coolest radio station you’re not listening to, and this appearance in Vancouver presents the best value you may see in 2008. Don’t pass it up."

Here are the highlights for the Vancouver music scene for February (***-I have my tickets; **-If I could afford it, I’d go; *-Give me a freebie and I’m there, and I’ll buy the first round):

Feb. 5: Editors/Hot Hot Heat, Commodore**
Feb. 5: The Kon Tikis, Railway Club*
Feb. 8: Dustin Bentall, Run GMC, Bourbon*
Feb. 10: Matt Costa, Commodore*
Feb. 11: Jim Bryson, Media Club*
Feb. 11: DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, Commodore**
Feb. 12: Feist, Orpheum***
Feb. 13: Wyclef Jean, Commodore*
Feb. 14: Sean Costello, The Yale*
Feb. 15: Mika, Orpheum**
Feb. 16: Ladyhawk, Commodore*
Feb. 17: Marilyn Manson, Queen Elizabeth Theatre*
Feb. 18: John Mellencamp, PNE***
Feb. 21: Corb Lund, Commodore**
Feb. 21: Bonobo, Richard’s on Richards*
Feb. 22: The Hives, Commodore*
Feb. 26-27: Johnny Winter, The Yale***
Feb. 27: Gregory Isaacs, Commodore*
Feb. 28-29: Daniel Wesley, Commodore**