Introspective and anthemic indie music features stripped-down tales and rich, finely-textured harmonies.About this Event
📅 SUN OCT 4, 2026
⏰ 8PM – 10:30PM
📍 The BAG
🎟️ $28 ADV | $30 DOOR
💃🏼 ALL AGES standing show with dance floor
Opening set by Sierra Lundy (of Ocie Elliott)
Dinner: 5-9PM
🍽️ Caribbean inspired menu + our Zephyr classics
Reuben and the Dark frontman Reuben Bullock is known for writing songs that search for light in impossible places. Across five albums, 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 storyteller from the story itself, and arrives after one of the most significant chapters of Bullock’s life. Written across more than a decade, and completed following the death of his older brother earlier this year, these 10 songs reckon with childhood trauma, addiction, family, forgiveness, 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. “I stopped giving a fuck,” Bullock says simply. “This one is for me.”
Raised in the foothills of southern Alberta, Bullock grew up surrounded by wide-open landscapes, long winters, and a family whose love, struggles, and resilience would become lifelong lyrical touchpoints. After years spent writing songs while fronting local bands and working construction jobs, slowly 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 arrangements. Bullock's songs quickly found audiences around the world through film, streaming, 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 acclaimed albums including Arms of a Dream (2018), Unlove (2019) and In Lieu of Light (2022); toured across North America and Europe, sharing stages with 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.
Newly feeling freed from expectations and industry pressures, Bullock approached If You Know Me You Know My Brother with a new kind of honesty. Many of these songs had lived unfinished for years, too personal to release until the moment finally arrived. Together 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.
Event venue
Brackendale Art Gallery, 41950 Government Road, Squamish, Canada
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