The World Provider (album release show!) + The Great Octopus @ BSMT 254

Fri Oct 24 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm UTC-04:00

BSMT254 | Toronto

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The World Provider (album release show!) + The Great Octopus @ BSMT 254
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The World Provider with special guest The Great Octopus - 7PM, FRIDAY OCT 24 @ BSMT 254. WP's album release + first Toronto show since 2018!
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Join The World Provider with special guest The Great Octopus for the WP's album release and first Toronto show since 2018!

Friday October 24 (Early Show!)

BSMT 254 - 254 Lansdowne

$12 advance / $15 door

Doors 7pm / show 7:30

The World Provider is the superheroic musical alter ego of mild-mannered Montrealer Malcolm Fraser. With a rotating cast of collaborators, The World Provider has been providing the world with mind-sticking melodies, low-budget synth rock, and theatrical spectacle since 1999. Listen: theworldprovider.bandcamp.com

Born of the same fertile Toronto music community that spawned Peaches, Feist, Chilly Gonzales, Mocky and Taylor Savvy, The World Provider has been based in Montreal since 2001. Since then, the World Provider has released six records, toured internationally, and collaborated with musicians from Montreal and beyond.

The new WP album, THEMES (out October 17) features old pals Peaches, Mocky and Savvy as well as country-folk chanteuse Katie Moore, singer-songwriter Michael Feuerstack, Andrew Scott (Sloan), Murray A. Lightburn (The Dears), and many more guests in a bizarre and beautiful stew of joyful musical mayhem.

“Fraser has a knack for the hooks that last forever” - Sean Michaels, The Globe and Mail

“catchy and stinking of talent … a whole lot of goddamn fun … feels like a memento from a happy experience, a reminder of an innocently joyous childhood fantasy” - Exclaim

The Great Octopus makes heavy synth sounds inspired by the oceans deep, haunting cinema, and mythical creatures of doom and wonder. Solo project of Dragon Sounds’ David Bertrand on synths, guitar, drums and everything else. New album for 2025 is MAY THE SEA VANQUISH THESE EVIL MEN. Listen: thegreatoctopus.bandcamp.com


BSMT 254 is a live music and DJ venue with top ranked sound that specializes in introducing the people of Toronto to music they should really get down with.

Accessibility: BSMT 254 is located down a single staircase from street level and is not wheelchair accessible.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

BSMT254, 254 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto, Canada

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CAD 14.11

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