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Glass Animals

October 12 2016, 8:00 p.m. Glass Animals. Glass Animals' rise has gained the Oxford fourpiece band a legion of fans all over the world. The band's debut Zaba, released on Harvest Records, has so far sold nearly half a million copies worldwide and amassed 200 million Spotify streams.. Event detailsThe band will bring the immersive, exotic and characteristically offkilter earworm 'Life Itself'to the live stage, along with the brandnew tracks off of How To Be A Human Being, as they embark on a North American headlining tour this fall.How To Be A Human Being is a scrapbook of their time spent on the road, gathering memories and perceptions of different types of people from all around the world. Many of Dave's lyrical ideas came from live recordings of people saved on his phone, as though he'd been operating as some sort of roaming journalist all this time. "I try to sneakily record people, and I have hours and hours of these amazing rants from taxi drivers, strange people we met outside of shows, people at parties. People say the strangest shit when they don't think they're ever gonna see you again." The voice notes sparked ideas for characters that Dave developed, writing an album like a TV screenwriter might approach a script. "I'd obsess over what they ate, where they lived, what their furniture looked like, what they wore," he laughs... Event Details. Location: 630 Hamilton Street, Vancouver