Victorious Combinations

 We put out our summer single " Smooth Sailing " on July 1st, and have been blessed with many radio plays around Canada, but especially here at home in Vancouver. Thanks to CFRO and CBC for the love!    Smooth Sailing is definitive Combine the Victorious sound. Blending Fleetwood Mac with Sade over a Sting inspired chord progression but somehow ends up sounding even more like us. Daniel Clement  (guitarist) and I became friends in Junior High in White Rock, BC.  Back in 1981 we started rehearsing our band Idle Minx in his family's garage. We know each other quite well and musically even better. The old records we shared as teenagers are the shorthand between us that has become the modern sound of Combine the Victorious.  And with this song, as with so many of our songs, this one was born from another Isabelle Dunlop chorus hook. As soon as she sang that we all knew we had a good song on the line.  Dan's guitar work on this one is lovely. The chorus gu...

  We are really excited about tonight at The Fox Cabaret. We hit the stage at &:45 sharp and perform all the songs from our brand new album Amnesia.  It's been a good year for us creatively and we are all quite proud of the new music. If you're in Vancouver please join us for a great night of music with our friend Skaboom closing the evening with a set of classic ska tunes to make us all dance!  Amnesia is also out today on most other streaming sites (excepting Spotify which is the one site I find to be unethical). So look us up on Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, or pretty much anywhere that doesn't rip off the artists that upload onto their streaming platforms! You can also get the CD directly from us by emailing combinethevictorious@gmail.com. I'll be happy to put one in the post for you! 

  We are pleased to share our latest song Without Confliction from our new Amnesia album. This video was created by our bandmate Daniel Clement, his first foray into the world on animation.  The song is likely the most romantic song Combine the V has ever done, a story about a conflicted assassin who falls in love with his target. It has proven to be quite an epic! 

  Amnesia is now available on our bandcamp site for listening and buying and you can order the cd from that site as well. So the options are slowing opening up to check out our new album. It is streaming on Tidal now and available for download from the iTunes music store as well.  On December 19th, the night of our Cd release party the album will become available on most streaming site, excluding Spotify, and of course be available for sale at our show the the Fox ! 

  We are excited to announce our CD Release party on Friday December 19th at the one and only Fox Cabaret with our pals Skaboom closing the night.  Early show, doors at 7PM, Combine the Victorious will begin at 7:45 sharp and Skaboom with follow starting at 8:45 until 10. Tickets available here 

 We are very excited to announce we have completed our new full length album and have begun the process of finalizing the art for its release! The album is titled "Amnesia" and features nine songs, including the title track Amnesia. This is the first album we've made with our guitar player Daniel Clement assisting with the writing and performing and his influence shows up dramatically throughout the songs.   Produced and recorded at the Boutique Empire studio here in Vancouver by Mark Henning, Amnesia offers a hint of hope in a world seemingly destined for destruction. The wistfulness of Monsoon Afternoon and Amnesia are matched with the darkness and intensity of Long-term Solution and Pick Up the Pieces. We have opted to add in a few of our favourite singles from the past year as well, with I Really Like Yout Style, Awkward Connect and Danser tout le temps appearing to round out the sound.   It will be available in early November on some streaming sites and wil...

  Sept 19th 2025 The Starling Effect with Combine the Victorious and Asterous at Lana Lou's 362 Powell Street, Vancouver Doors at8PM 9PM Combine the Victorious 10PM The Startling Effect 11Pm Asterous   Tickets are $15  

 We have spent most of the past year writing and performing new material, some of which we've released as singles up to this point but also finishing off five additional new songs all of which shall be collected as a new full length album.  Since our guitarist Danial Clement joined the band we have upped the speed with which we write and record. Additionally we've altered our sound to incorporate a lot more guitar and moved into new territories. As the song Monsoon Afternoon indicates Combine the Victorious has adopted a more organic approach to our music, blending traditional Latin rhythms with our darker sounds.  Isabelle's vocal melodies and lyrics really shine on this new collection. There is a wonderful sense of joy to the new songs, pulling the moods from darker tones and lifting things up to a more hopeful and positive vibe.  Nine songs, all made to fit onto vinyl, which is our goal, and ready for a full release.  tracks will include: Danser tout les temp...

This is just a quick note to talk about the progress we've been making on our next full length album. We've been releasing singles for the past few years in attempt to get the algorithm going on the streaming sites and for a bit it has seemed to work. However we, Daniel, Isabelle and I, all feel like its time to collect a few of our favorite songs and add them to the growing pile of completed new tracks to bind them together into a new album.  We have four completely new songs never released and are working hard on finished a pair of freshly started tracks. It is our intention to grab just a few of the songs we've released over the past three years to complete the music journey. I confess it is rather excited to have so much new material and all of it is sounded quite great - plus I've made a handful of updated mixes from our other repertoire that will someday become B-sides or part of an EP in the future. As always we shall be giving our previews of tracks on our bandc...

  We are excited to be playing The Painted Ship in the heart of Kitsalano, Vancouver. This will be our first time performing in the Painted Ship but we hope it will be a place we can return to over the next year or so.  2884 West Broadway Show starts at 9PM until 11PM.  Just Combine the Victorious on the bill with several brand new songs to play as well as our favorites from the past.

  BE25045 Release Date - April 4 2025 We are pleased to release out latest single, it forms part of a three songs that explore a similar tonality. Monsoon Afternoon features another exquisite guitar part from Daniel Clement supported the delicate vocals of Isabelle Dunlop, Recorded in the early winter of 2025 the song embraces a more mature sound and explores the subtle balance of hope and realism.  Words and music by Combine the Victorious (Dan Clement, Isabelle Dunlop, Mark Henning)  Production, engineering and mixing by Mark Henning Recorded, mixed and mastered at Boutique Empire Studio, Vancouver, Canada.  Artwork by Boutique Empire  Have a listen thru any of the links below! Apple Music Spotify Amazon Bandcamp

  We are playing another show in Vancouver, March 8th at the Red Gate on Main Street.  We are opening the night for a couple other very cool bands, The Van Rays especially have our interest! It'll be a fun night, Combine the Victorious shall be debuting three brand new unheard before songs as well as playing several of our favourites from our recent repertoire. Get tickets by clicking thru here

 Well we had a decently busy year, with our biggest show to date back in June opening for Images In Vogue and a mini tour to Manitoba in August, three shows in November and hopefully a lot more in 2025.  We've decided to complete writing and recording a batch of new material to combine with a few of our previously released singles to make a full length album. Vinyl is being considered this time, which would be a first for us, as we've really only pressed CDs of our first album The World Over and done very limited runs of CD-Rs for other releases just to promote.  The first of the new songs is now complete with a couple more started in the demo stages. Hopefully we'll have four songs done by New Year's Eve!  Stay tuned and I'll drop previews of the songs on this blog and our soundcloud page. Really want to make as great an album as we can and I'm feeling as though we'll have the material to make it memorable!

 We are pleased to announce we are joining our friends The Aleatonics this Saturday night at Lana Lou's  We are the second act so I predict we will hit stage around 9:30 or so.  It's always fun at Lana Lou's and we will be playing our new single Awkward Connector.

Cheers to the appreciative crowd Monday night at the Biltmore. It was a pleasure to play there in support of the End Violence Against Women day.We hope to play it again next year!  Thanks and see you at Lana Lou's on Saturday night!  I think we are on at 9:30

 We are pleased to be included as part of this party to End Violence Against Women on Monday November 25th. We are told we go on stage around 9PM. It's a great venue and I'm pleased we shall be performing on it once again (the last time was likely 2008 or 2009! Come on out and have dance with us, as it's all for a good cause!

  We are quite excited about our new single " Awkward Connector ." This is a song where the original idea came from Daniel Clement , guitarist, and we worked on it over the summer. We did try playing it live a few times while we were in Manitoba but it never felt like we had it totally finished. November 1st we are releasing it into the world with hopes it will find us new friends!  Featuring Isabelle 's vocals once again with Dan's lush guitars filling in many of the spaces. The synths were a fun addition as I explored a few of the new virtual analog synths I'd purchased this past year. Several of the sounds are multiple layers of synths to complete the sonic palette.  Once again our friend Greg Hanberry came into the studio to add a conga part to the song. His congas have really become integral to the Combine the Victorious sound over the past two years. He's now played on at least five of our songs!  To complete the release we asked our frequent artist col...

  BE24038 Released today, Sept 20th, 2024. the gorgeous  MetronomiX Remix of our classic song " Glasgow ". Remix produced by Vancouver Drum and Bass master MetronomiX, though he's gone full R&B Electronic on this mix. Give it a listen, it might make your night!  Click thru to listen on: Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Tidal Bandcamp

 Excited to share the MetronomiX remix of Glasgow this week. On Friday we'll drop it on all the streaming sites. You can listen today on Bandcamp if you'd like. Glasgow - MetronomiX Remix by Combine the Victorious

 We are excited to be the headlining act on this evening of music. Gabba Productions has put this lineup together with our pals Rat Silo  (includes former members of seminal band Sons of Freedom) and from Seattle, The Nightcry . After our successful Manitoba tour we are raring to get back on stage and recapture the magic!  Joining us on November 2nd is our friend and conga player Greg Hanberry. He's played a few shows with us in the past year, including the wonderful Rickshaw Theatre show opening for Images In Vogu e, and every time we have him on stage with us the vibes increase tenfold! We have a brand new song to  perform, "Awkward Connector" along with other unreleased songs on the evening. You can get your tickets thru showpass.com Click through for tickets.