BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Events//ES METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE TIMEZONE-ID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:f1e237fc-6538-4219-8862-8ccfb1b9110a@360exp.net SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260910T202906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261025T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261026T060000 SUMMARY:Reuben and the Dark at Meteor LOCATION:Meteor DESCRIPTION:Reuben and the Dark at Meteor Oct 25th / $25 advanced / $30 do or / 7pm doors \nReuben and the Dark frontman Reuben Bullock is known for writing songs that search for light in impossible places. Across five alb ums\, the Calgary songwriter has turned grief\, endurance\, and hope into expansive\, communal anthems. Yet his new album\, If You Know Me You Know My Brother\, strips away much of the distance that once separated the stor yteller from the story itself\, and arrives after one of the most signific ant chapters of Bullock’s life. Written across more than a decade\, and completed following the death of his older brother earlier this year\, the se 10 songs reckon with childhood trauma\, addiction\, family\, forgivenes s\, and the strange ways love continues long after loss. If earlier Reuben and the Dark records often looked outward–toward nature\, spirituality\ , and a search for belonging–this one begins at home.\n“I stopped givi ng a fuck\,” Bullock says simply.\n“This one is for me.”\nRaised in the foothills of southern Alberta\, Bullock grew up surrounded by wide-ope n landscapes\, long winters\, and a family whose love\, struggles\, and re silience would become lifelong lyrical touchpoints. After years spent writ ing songs while fronting local bands and working construction jobs\, slowl y developing 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 arrang ements. Bullock's songs quickly found audiences around the world through f ilm\, streaming\, and television–including Grey’s Anatomy\, Game of Th rones\, Heartland\, and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie–establishing Reu ben and the Dark as one of Canada’s breakout independent acts. Over the years\, he has continued to expand the project’s musical vocabulary acro ss acclaimed albums including Arms of a Dream (2018)\, Unlove (2019) and I n Lieu of Light (2022)\; toured across North America and Europe\, sharing stages with artists including Mumford & Sons\, Vance Joy\, Boy & Bear\, Th e Paper Kites\, and Leif Vollebekk\; and performed at major festivals and headline shows throughout Canada and abroad.\nNewly feeling freed from exp ectations and industry pressures\, Bullock approached If You Know Me You K now My Brother with a new kind of honesty. Many of these songs had lived u nfinished for years\, too personal to release until the moment finally arr ived. Together with his band\, he transformed them into some of the most i ntimate recordings of his career: not polished confessions\, but living do cuments of someone learning to carry grief rather than escape it.\nThat em otional thread runs throughout If You Know Me You Know My Brother. The evo cative and soaring “Youth” revisits a childhood shared between two bro thers that was shaped by chaos\, and finds healing in memories that once f elt impossible to revisit.\n“Bird Over Sea\,” a metronomic song that l ingered unfinished for over a decade\, slowly builds to a cathartic ending as it confronts addiction and suicide\, all while somehow emerging as one of the album’s most hopeful moments.\n“Remind Me I’m Wild” was bo rn after a devastating leg injury left Bullock stranded in the California desert until his late brother flew south to bring him home\, transforming catastrophe into an intense and poignant reminder of the power of family.\ nElsewhere\, the stirring\, near-gospel of “Two Graves” wrestles openl y with faith and fate\, while the haunting\, meditative album closer “Th ank You and Goodnight” fittingly serves as both a farewell and a gesture of gratitude–to friends\, family\, audiences\, and to the people who st ay with us\, even after they’re gone.\nMusically\, If You Know Me You Kn ow My Brother captures a band–Benjamin Longman (keys/guitar)\, Sam Harri son (bass)\, Brendan “Dino” Soares (drums) as well as former bandmate and co-producer\, Ian Jarvis–that has settled fully into its own voice. Fingerpicked acoustics give way to towering crescendos\; harmonicas\, shim mering guitars and widescreen rhythms create songs that feel as equally su ited to solitary reflection as festival fields. The arrangements never ove rwhelm the stories. Instead\, they surround them\, allowing every lyric to breathe before lifting it skyward.\nThe title itself comes from something his brother once told Reuben: that sometimes he couldn’t tell where one life ended and the other began. That sentiment became the emotional cente r of the record. What started as an album about perseverance gradually rev ealed itself as something deeper: a conversation between brothers that str etches across time\, memory\, and absence. For Bullock\, this is less a re invention than a return–to writing songs for the joy of the process\, to trusting instinct over expectation\, and to the simple act of picking up a guitar and asking the one person whose opinion mattered most\, Do you th ink 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. Writte n with him in mind as I reminisced of our childhood together. Trying harde r to understand and accept how he has truly been my muse for the last 15 y ears of songwriting.”\nIf You Know Me You Know My Brother doesn’t offe r neat resolutions to grief. Instead\, it finds grace in continuing forwar d. It is a record about broken hearts that keep beating\, impossible dream s worth chasing\, and the quiet realization that love rarely disappears– it simply changes shape.\n\nBoletos: https://www.showpass.com/reuben-and-t he-dark-at-meteor/ URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/f1e237fc-6538-4219-8862-8ccfb1b911 0a END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR