Simon Kendall was born in Ireland and moved to Vancouver with his family at the age of six. He has spent over forty-five years composing, performing, and producing an eclectic array of music for concert performance, theatre, television, radio, cinema, and dance. In 1978, Simon got the call to join some old music buddies and transplanted Toronto graphic artist Doug Bennett in Vancouver’s upstart indie band ‘Doug and the Slugs.’ This led to fifteen years as the band’s music director and keyboardist. They released four gold albums and performed from New York to the North Pole as one of the decade’s premier Canadian touring acts.
————
Aaron Chapman is a writer, historian, and musician with a special interest in Vancouver’s entertainment history. He is the author of Vancouver after Dark: The Wild History of a City’s Nightlife, winner of the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award (BC Book Prizes) in 2020; Live at the Commodore, a history of the Commodore Ballroom that won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award (BC Book Prizes) in 2015. He was one of the co-writers of Vancouver Confidential. (Anvil Press) In 2020 he was elected as a member of the Royal Historical Society. He lives in Vancouver, where he has been a Doug & the Slugs fan since he was a Slugling.
