If someone had assassinated Goebbels, would the Germans have engaged in public hand-wringing over “who we are as a people”? Maybe some of them. But the decent ones would have finished the job and taken Hitler out too.

This is as good a time as any to announce that we will be on the Unsigned BC radio show, which airs Saturday (September 13) at 4 pm on Co-op Radio (CFRO-FM 100.5 in Vancouver, or listen online). #liveradio #thestarlingeffect #unsignedbc #localmusic #indiemusic

Just a wee snippet from our most recent gig at the Painted Ship. #thestarlingeffect #vancouvermusicscene #shoegaze #livemusic

Hey! Come see us at LanaLou’s on September 19th and we will love you forever and ever. And that’s a mighty long time.

Thanks to @radiowaterloo.ca for adding our new single, “Pile of Ash”. We appreciate the support!

Wiggedout Music presents the Starling Effect at the Painted Ship (2884 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC) on Saturday, August 16, with guests Shimbashi Station and Thomas Van Alstine. Cover charge is $15.

When bands apply for festivals etc., their social media numbers can make a difference to whether they get selected or not? With that in mind, it would sure mean a lot to us if everyone who reads this would take a moment to follow us on Instagram. www.instagram.com/thestarlinge...

Hey Bluesky peeps, who are the best accounts to follow for Canadian political news and views? 🇨🇦

Hello, new friends! If you’re just joining us, here’s a taste of what we sound like. thestarlingeffect.bandcamp.com/track/a-stra...

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A little patio-garden visitor. I think it’s a Harmonia axyridis, but I’m no expert.

Spanish Banks Beach, Vancouver.

Pics from last Friday (by Tamla Mah).

The Starling Effect affect Green Auto April 18th with The Cold Lake. Tickets: bit.ly/4b7zCxn 📸 Tony Lee #live #music #vancouver #gabbaprod @thestarlingeffect.bsky.social

Here’s our most recent bit of press, for anyone interested. thevancityscene.blogspot.com/2025/02/arti...

Queen Elizabeth Park, yesterday afternoon.

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

Hi! Apparently I forgot this app even existed. Anyhow, we’re back. We have a show at Green Auto this Friday (along with Abel Collective and the Cold Lake). If you are as awesome as I know you are, you’ll find tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-starli...

The farewell show for Abel Collective, April 18 at Green Auto with headliners The Starling Effect and Cold Lake. Tickets: bit.ly/4b7zCxn #livemusic #vancouver #music #pop #shoegaze @thestarlingeffect.bsky.social

Hey Vancouver peeps. We won’t be playing this Friday as initially announced. But we already have shows lines up in March and April, so watch for details soon.

Hey, Vancouver friends! We're playing at KW Studios on January 10, and you can find tickets for that right here: www.showpass.com/shimbashi-st...

We also play live shows like a real band. Here’s the next one? Anyone got the scoop on KW Studios? We’ve never been!

See? We are a real band after all! We talk and everything! youtu.be/dsbg5jF7Nmg

Oh yeah! Almost forgot. Pics from our show last Friday at the Princeton Pub. Photos by Josh Sollows.

Given Elon Musk’s track record of inserting himself where he’s not wanted and ruining things that people like, should he be allowed to go to Mars? Because I’m thinking, like, um, fuck no.

#RESIST 🇺🇸

Hey! Any Vancouver peeps on here yet? We have a show in January. It will be a good one.

I was just on X for all of five minutes (using my personal, non-band account) and some jerkoff with a Pepe avatar pulled the “pronouns in bio = opinons irrelevant” bullshit. This is why we need Bluesky and it’s also why we need to keep people like that off it.

Just poked my head in over at X. MAGA crowd arguing that there are no Black Trump cabinet picks because DEI is head and picks are based on merit. Yes, that explains Linda McMahon.

Just throwing this out there…if any of our new band friends here are planning to play in Vancouver, we will happily help you book a show… and then play it with you, of course.

Meanwhile, back on Twitter… Leon is getting Community Noted for retweeting absolutely absurd bullshit…. It’s nice to be here! 🦋

To the Oklahoma superintendent making students watch him pray for Trump, the answer is a hard no.

Hey! Thanks for the new follows here. We would love it if everyone also followed us on Instagram. Thanks! www.instagram.com/thestarlinge...

Seems nice here. It’s like Twitter for non-fascists.

This was us a couple of months ago. (Note the @slowdiveofficial.bsky.social shirt.) Tonight we do it again, this time at the Princeton Pub in Vancouver. See you there?

Some pics of us playing live through the years.

So we decided to make a starter pack for the Vancouver music scene and found almost no one to add to it. Vancouver music peeps, where are you?

Oh, yeah... if you want to hear what we sound like, everything we've recorded so far is here: thestarlingeffect.bandcamp.com

Check, check... is this thing on? Ahem. We have a show this Friday. We would like to invite our 0 followers to attend.