Event Preview: Sook-Yin Lee Co-presented with Mint Records

If the combination of bubblegum-egg-punk, fuzzy emotional immediacy, queer Indigenous poetry, and experimental art pop piques your interest, join us Friday, October 23, as New Feeling and Mint Records proudly co-present Sook-Yin Lee, jaye simpson, Kylie V, and Reveal Yourself at the Red Gate Arts Society in Vancouver, BC. Music, poetry, and performance – these four riveting acts are united in their artistic sensibilities, preferring to draw out beauty with rough, curious edges. We invite you to abandon restraint and revel in their restless experimentation.

Vancouver two-piece Reveal Yourself makes enthralling, blissfully confusing “bubblegum-egg-punk” that perfectly meshes with the evening’s absurdism. The lo-fi freak troupe released love deluxe this summer, a volatile eight-track collection rife with lucid imagery, danceable angularity and feminist fervour.

Kylie V’s 2025 covers of “Lovers Spit” and “Party Police” fit like faded jeans: familiar, softened at the edges, their voice buoyant against frayed textures. Their own music brings that same emotional immediacy into sharper focus, revealing shards of yearning and hard-won truth. For this hometown set, the Vancouver singer-songwriter will draw from their first two albums, including Royal Mountain Records release Crash Test Plane, alongside unreleased songs from the album they’ve just begun recording. Come see them shine, and catch a glimpse of where they’re heading next.

jaye simpson is an Oji-Cree-Saulteaux Indigiqueer writer, activist and drag performer from Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. their work brings Indigenous grief and trans evolution into conversation with mythology, desire and otherworldly possibilities. their 2025 poetry collection, a body more tolerable, was a finalist for the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Eschewing colonial constraints on femininity, simpson makes room for tenderness with grit – favouring rage, longing and an honesty that refuses to conform. Expect poetry that will insist on something better.

Acclaimed broadcaster, musician, VJ and director Sook-Yin Lee brings her kaleidoscopic anti-band to town in support of her arresting album 72RHR. Built around a steady pulse of 72 beats per minute, the record searches for balance in a world coming apart, moving through discord and harmony without losing its heart. As recently demonstrated on stages across Eastern Canada, her live performances are instinctive and colourful, with resonant, incantatory vocals that lend the proceedings an almost devotional intensity.

Tickets for the event are available online through GigPit.