BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Events//ES METHOD:PUBLISH TIMEZONE-ID:Canada/Mountain X-WR-TIMEZONE:Canada/Mountain BEGIN:VEVENT UID:102da3a4-8335-4ea7-8f7e-55e67700b7e6@360exp.net SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260911T002849 DTSTART;TZID=Canada/Mountain:20261114T013000 DTEND;TZID=Canada/Mountain:20261114T033000 SUMMARY:Reuben and the Dark LOCATION:Festival Place DESCRIPTION:Reuben and the Dark frontman Reuben Bullock is known for writi ng songs that search for light in impossible places. Across five albums\, the Calgary songwriter has turned grief\, endurance\, and hope into expans ive\, communal anthems. Yet his new album\, If You Know Me You Know My Bro ther\, strips away much of the distance that once separated the storytelle r from the story itself\, and arrives after one of the most significant ch apters of Bullock’s life. Written across more than a decade\, and comple ted following the death of his older brother earlier this year\, these 10 songs reckon with childhood trauma\, addiction\, family\, forgiveness\, an d the strange ways love continues long after loss. If earlier Reuben and t he Dark records often looked outward–toward nature\, spirituality\, and a search for belonging–this one begins at home. “I stopped giving a f_ __\,” Bullock says simply. “This one is for me.”\nRaised in the foot hills of southern Alberta\, Bullock grew up surrounded by wide-open landsc apes\, long winters\, and a family whose love\, struggles\, and resilience would become lifelong lyrical touchpoints. After years spent writing song s while fronting local bands and working construction jobs\, slowly develo ping the honesty and emotional depth that would come to define his work\, the band’s 2014 debut album Funeral Sky introduced a songwriter capable of pairing deeply personal stories with soaring\, cathartic arrangements. Bullock's songs quickly found audiences around the world through film\, st reaming\, and television–including Grey’s Anatomy\, Game of Thrones\, Heartland\, and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie–establishing Reuben and the Dark as one of Canada’s breakout independent acts. Over the years\, he has continued to expand the project’s musical vocabulary across accla imed albums including Arms of a Dream (2018)\, Unlove (2019) and In Lieu o f Light (2022)\; toured across North America and Europe\, sharing stages w ith artists including Mumford & Sons\, Vance Joy\, Boy & Bear\, The Paper Kites\, and Leif Vollebekk\; and performed at major festivals and headline shows throughout Canada and abroad.\nNewly feeling freed from expectation s and industry pressures\, Bullock approached If You Know Me You Know My B rother with a new kind of honesty. Many of these songs had lived unfinishe d for years\, too personal to release until the moment finally arrived. To gether with his band\, he transformed them into some of the most intimate recordings of his career: not polished confessions\, but living documents of someone learning to carry grief rather than escape it.\nThat emotional thread runs throughout If You Know Me You Know My Brother. The evocative a nd soaring “Youth” revisits a childhood shared between two brothers th at was shaped by chaos\, and finds healing in memories that once felt impo ssible to revisit. “Bird Over Sea\,” a metronomic song that lingered u nfinished for over a decade\, slowly builds to a cathartic ending as it co nfronts addiction and suicide\, all while somehow emerging as one of the a lbum’s most hopeful moments. “Remind Me I’m Wild” was born after a devastating leg injury left Bullock stranded in the California desert unt il his late brother flew south to bring him home\, transforming catastroph e into an intense and poignant reminder of the power of family. Elsewhere\ , the stirring\, near-gospel of “Two Graves” wrestles openly with fait h and fate\, while the haunting\, meditative album closer “Thank You and Goodnight” fittingly serves as both a farewell and a gesture of gratitu de–to friends\, family\, audiences\, and to the people who stay with us\ , even after they’re gone.\nMusically\, If You Know Me You Know My Broth er captures a band–Benjamin Longman (keys/guitar)\, Sam Harrison (bass)\ , Brendan “Dino” Soares (drums) as well as former bandmate and co-prod ucer\, Ian Jarvis–that has settled fully into its own voice. Fingerpicke d acoustics give way to towering crescendos\; harmonicas\, shimmering guit ars and widescreen rhythms create songs that feel as equally suited to sol itary reflection as festival fields. The arrangements never overwhelm the stories. Instead\, they surround them\, allowing every lyric to breathe be fore lifting it skyward.\nThe title itself comes from something his brothe r once told Reuben: that sometimes he couldn’t tell where one life ended and the other began. That sentiment became the emotional center of the re cord. What started as an album about perseverance gradually revealed itsel f as something deeper: a conversation between brothers that stretches acro ss time\, memory\, and absence. For Bullock\, this is less a reinvention t han a return–to writing songs for the joy of the process\, to trusting i nstinct over expectation\, and to the simple act of picking up a guitar an d asking the one person whose opinion mattered most\, Do you think this is any good? “This is the last album I was ever able to show my brother\, ” he explains. “And most of these songs were for him. Written with him in mind as I reminisced of our childhood together. Trying harder to under stand and accept how he has truly been my muse for the last 15 years of so ngwriting.”\nIf You Know Me You Know My Brother doesn’t offer neat res olutions to grief. Instead\, it finds grace in continuing forward. It is a record about broken hearts that keep beating\, impossible dreams worth ch asing\, and the quiet realization that love rarely disappears–it simply changes shape.\nAll patrons of all ages require a ticket.\nREUBEN AND THE DARK WEBSITE\n\n \n\nBoletos: https://www.showpass.com/reuben-and-the-dar k-5/ URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/102da3a4-8335-4ea7-8f7e-55e67700b7 e6 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR