Upstairs

ARMCHAIR CYNICS
2025-11-08 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Vancouver) | Upstairs, 15 Bastion Square, Victoria, BC, V8W1J1, Canada
RIDE ON, THE ZONE@91.3 & UPSTAIRS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT
ARMCHAIR CYNICS

Date: Saturday, November 8th, 2025

Doors: 7PM
Show Wrap-Up: 10PM

19+

Outline: After a 15-year hiatus, Armchair Cynics will re-unite for an epic hometown concert at Upstairs. Listen to the Zone@91.3 to win your way in!

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

FRIDAYS
2025-11-07 22:00 - 2025-11-08 02:00, 2025-10-31 22:00 - 2025-11-01 02:00, 2025-10-24 22:00 - 2025-10-25 02:00, 2025-10-17 22:00 - 2025-10-18 02:00, 2025-10-10 22:00 - 2025-10-11 02:00, 2025-10-03 22:00 - 2025-10-04 02:00, 2025-09-26 22:00 - 2025-09-27 02:00, 2025-09-19 22:00 - 2025-09-20 02:00 and 1 more date
FRIDAYS
FEATURING KIMBZ

Doors: 10PM
Close: 2AM

19+

Outline: Upstairs Entertainment is excited to be openings its doors every Friday at 10PM. We have an incredible rotation of artists lined up for you, so please stay tuned to our social media for updates!
Uppy Hour: From 10PM to 11PM we will be offering $5.75 highballs, $5.75 Sol, and $5.75 Smirnoff Ice!
Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

VIKES MEN'S RUGBY MONSTER MASH
2025-11-06 22:00 - 2025-11-07 02:00
VIKES MEN’S RUGBY PRESENTS
MONSTER MASH

Date: Thursday, November 6th, 2025

Doors: 10PM
Close: 2AM

19+

Outline: The Vikes Men’s Rugby team invites you to the 16th annual Monster Mash – Victoria’s most famous Halloween party returns to Upstairs! Wear a costume and come celebrate Halloween with the Vikes!
This is an important fundraising event for our program. All proceeds go directly to covering Vikes Men’s Rugby team costs, thank you for your support!

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

CHROMEO
2025-11-01 22:00 - 2025-11-02 02:00
TIMBRE PRESENTS
CHROMEO
DJ SET WITH PAT LOK

Date: Saturday, November 1st, 2025

Doors: 10PM
Close: 2AM

19+

Outline: Calling all adults: Chromeo is back, and have the ygot a record for you. It’s brazenly titled “Adult Contemporary,” and it’s set to redefine the term. There’s a complacency and a softness to “adult contemporary” as we know it, in a pleated khakis and cable-knit sweater kind of way. In the hands of Dave 1and P-Thugg however, the phrase takes on a whole new meaning. Let’s parse it word by word. “Adult” is a loaded thing to call someone in this day and age, since adults have basically wrecked our planet. But for Chromeo, to be an adult doesn’t mean being a cog in the square world’s machinery. Rather, it signifies evolution, sophistication, and nuance. Aging like wine or cheese, not like fruit or milk. While we do so, how much of our groove do we actually choose to hold on to? Chromeo says: “all of it.” As you already know (unless you’ve been living in a vibes vacuum since the early 2000s), Chromeo is the paramount funk band of our time. Friends since childhood, Dave and Pee have built an empire of soigné, danceable, and intelligent music over the course of two decades. Few duos can claim this kind of psychic togetherness and evergreen staying power. Really, who else? One must venture into the stratosphere to find precedents. And now that Dave’s double-breasted suits are popping and Pee’s turtlenecks are in effect mode, it’s safe to say that we can rely on Chromeo to stick around for years to come. Wait, do you want to hears something really adult? Try this on for size: the anguish of late-stage capitalist monogamy is very much a thing.
Here, we come to the essence of Adult Contemporary, the most lyrically cohesive Chromeo opus to date: it’s a 14-trackmeditation on mature relationships. This is perhaps best conveyed in the song “BTS,” which sounds like a classic Chromeo funk jam but, as is often the case with these guys, hides a deeper message. An ode to just going to sleep (“rest can be Better Than Sex”), it’s about that moment in an affair of the heart when you can just say, “Baby, this week was a doozy and I really just need to crash.” How real is that? Or there’s a song like “Personal Effects,” in which Dave reminisces over a partner after seeing her phone charger left at his house. Modern romance, indeed. Throughout the album, songs function like short stories, each a variation on what it’s like to be in love in 2024–from joyful commitment to crippling co-dependency, from the platonic to the profane. It’s no picnic…yet lo and behold, it can also be hilarious, and Dave and Pee tackle it all in their signature straight-faced style. Lest we forget the core Chromeo value: there is no such thing as irony.
On to that other word. “Contemporary.” An interesting choice for a band who has always been equally of-the-moment and openly indebted to its ancestors. But in an era when everything is available all the time, seamlessly melding together the new and the old might just be the most contemporary act an artist can commit. Chromeo offers us a singularity of funk, with music more elegant and considered than ever before. Take for instance the lush horn arrangements on “Words With You” and “Lost And Found” or the banging electro-synths in “(I Don’t Need A)New Girl.” This is Chromeo in full two-man studio muso mode, danceable and delicate, simultaneously wielding deft live instrumentation and a relentless four-on-the-floor kick drum that scans the entire record. For the first time in a while, it really is a tandem affair. The previous albums were very much about collaborating. Getting other people involved and going big. Adult Contemporary is more ambitious specifically because it revolves solely around two besties at the top of their game, doing absolutely everything on their own. Hence a deeply intimate feel, with Dave and Pee accomplishing two things at once: getting back to basics in terms of method while also expanding the songwriting and atmosphere. The Chromeo blueprint of maximum funk earnestness its front and center. So with that in mind, we invite you to join not only our contemporary times but also the ranks of the grown. Contrary to our infantilizing culture–which would prefer you stunted–, adulthood is a blast. And with a soundtrack such as Adult Contemporary, it’s a place of pleasure, discernment, groove, and comradeship. Come now, dip your toe into the infinity pool of maturity. You’ll find yourself, before too long, happy to evolve funkily alongside Chromeo

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

HALLOWEEN
2025-10-31 22:00 - 2025-11-01 02:00
UPSTAIRS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS
HALLOWEEN
FEATURING FOOTWURK, KIMBZ & SOLEIL

Date: Friday, October 31st, 2025

Doors: 10PM
Close: 2AM

19+

Outline: Celebrate Halloween with us at Upstairs. We will have prizes for the best dressed and music courtesy of Footwurk, Kimbz & Soleil.

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

SATURDAYS
2025-10-25 22:00 - 2025-10-26 02:00, 2025-10-18 22:00 - 2025-10-19 02:00, 2025-10-11 22:00 - 2025-10-12 02:00, 2025-10-04 22:00 - 2025-10-05 02:00, 2025-09-27 22:00 - 2025-09-28 02:00, 2025-09-20 22:00 - 2025-09-21 02:00, 2025-09-13 22:00 - 2025-09-14 02:00, 2025-09-06 22:00 - 2025-09-07 02:00
SATURDAYS
FEATURING JUICE

Doors: 10PM
Close: 2AM

19+

Outline: Upstairs Entertainment is excited to be openings its doors every Saturday at 10PM. We have an incredible rotation of artists lined up for you, so please stay tuned to our social media for updates!
Uppy Hour: From 10PM to 11PM we will be offering $5.75 highballs, $5.75 Sol, and $5.75 Smirnoff Ice!
Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

CHAPPELL ROAN TRIBUTE NIGHT
2025-10-25 19:00 - 22:00
UPSTAIRS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS
CHAPPELL ROAN TRIBUTE NIGHT
FEATURING HOT 2 GO

Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2025

Doors: 7PM
Show Wrap-Up: 10PM

19+

Outline: Join us with local band Hot 2 Go for a night of all your favourite Chappell covers with a LIVE full band!
Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

PISSED JEANS
2025-10-24 19:00 - 22:00
MODO-LIVE X I AM THE EGGPLANT X HEARTACHE NO. 2 PRESENT
PISSED JEANS
FEATURING WAIT/LESS

Date: Friday, October 24th, 2025

Doors: 7PM
Show Wrap-Up: 10PM

19+

Outline: MODO-LIVE, I am the Eggplant, and Heartache No. 2 present Pissed Jeans with Wait/Less.

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

SURF HAT
2025-10-18 19:00 - 22:30
UPSTAIRS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS
SURF HAT
SEEING COLOURS TOUR
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS BLUSH

Date: Saturday, October 18th, 2025

Doors: 7PM
Show Wrap-Up: 10:30PM

19+

Outline: Surf Hat are a psych-surf group from Squamish, BC, Canada. Their debut record “Surf Hat” has gathered hundreds of thousands of streams and they have established a rapidly growing fan-base across North America. The classic 4 piece lineup delivers the verby, jangly surf-rock guitar style of modern bands mixed with the sweetly harmonized vocals of beloved classics. Picture Allah-lahs meeting The Ventures or The Beatles. Surf Hat are looking to take their signature sound on the road for the next million years or so. Surf Hat released their sophomore album “Surf Hat Ranch” in March 2024.

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

CRISTOPH
2025-10-17 22:00 - 2025-10-18 02:00
BLUEPRINT EVENTS PRESENTS
CRISTOPH
FEATURING KIMBZ & BASTIAN GARCIA

Date: Friday, October 17th, 2025

Doors: 10PM
Close: 2AM

19+

Outline: We are excited to announce that on Friday, October 17th, Cristoph will be taking the stage at Upstairs!

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

FRASE WITH KAYA KO
2025-10-04 19:00 - 22:00
UPSTAIRS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS
FRASE
WITH KAYA KO

Date: Saturday, October 4th, 2025

Doors: 7PM
Show Wrap-Up: 10PM

19+

Outline: Join us in October as Frase brings his LIVE multi-instrumental performance to Upstairs with support from Kayo Ko.

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

MORGAN WADE
2025-10-03 19:00 - 22:00
LIVE NATION PRESENTS
MORGAN WADE
CROSSING PROVINCE LINES

Date: Friday, October 3rd, 2025

Doors: 7PM
Show Wrap-Up: 10PM

19+

Outline: We are excited to announce that Morgan Wade will be taking the stage at Upstairs as a part of her Crossing Province Lines Tour. There is an overall 4 ticket limit for this event.

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

DIDN'T CHA KNOW?
2025-09-27 19:00 - 22:00
UPSTAIRS ENTERTAINMENT AND THE ZONE PRESENT
DIDN’T CHA KNOW?
ERYKAH BADU TRIBUTE NIGHT
WITH SUPPORT FROM GREG BONBON

Date: Saturday, September 27thth, 2025

Doors: 7PM
Show Wrap-Up: 10PM

19+

Outline: Join us September 27th with lead vocalist JAXXEE and her band, for a special night of all your favourite classics by the “Queen of Neo-Soul”.
Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

PHANTOMS
2025-09-25 21:00 - 2025-09-26 01:00
UPSTAIRS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS
PHANTOMS

Date: Thursday, September 25th, 2025

Doors: 9PM
Show Wrap-Up: 1AM

19+

Outline: Composed of Kyle Kaplan and Vinnie Pergola, Phantoms have established themselves as a formidable force in electronic music. Since launching in 2016 with their ‘Broken Halo’ EP, the duo has achieved remarkable success, including their self-titled debut album featuring the chart-topping “Just A Feeling” (ft. Verite), which claimed the #1 spot on US Dance Radio for 4 consecutive weeks and broke SiriusXM/BPM’s Top 20 countdown record.
Their 2019 ‘Disconnect’ EP featured dance chart-topping single “Say It” and gained worldwide DJ support from Pete Tong, Diplo, Duke Dumont, Jai Wolf, and Martin Garrix. Following their 2022 album ‘This Can’t Be Everything’ on ODESZA’s Foreign Family.
Collective, the duo has continued to evolve their distinctive style that blurs the lines between house and Indie-dance, incorporating unique synth and drum patterns that have become synonymous with their brand of alternative electronica.
Now leading Speed Dial Records, they’re championing the next wave of independent electronic music. With a packed slate of 2025 releases, Phantoms are poised to solidify their status at the forefront of the indie-dance movement.

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.

BLACK PONTIAC
2025-09-07 19:00 - 23:30
UVIC SURF CLUB PRESENTS
BLACK PONTIAC
WITH SUPPORT FROM SUNFISH, KING BOB & SILVERWARE

Date: Sunday, September 7th, 2025

Doors: 7PM
Show Wrap-Up: 11:30PM

19+

Outline: Dive headfirst into the new school year with a night of electrifying live music! Black Pontiac is teaming up with the UVic Surf Club for the grand finale of their North American tour: An ultimate back-to-school blowout at Upstairs.
Catch high-energy sets from Sunfish, King Bob, Silverware, and headliners Black Pontiac, all bringing the heat to Victoria’s favourite downtown stage.
Prize for the best costume! Surf Club Members get 15% off!
See you soon.

Entry Requirements: All patrons must be 19 years of age or older with two pieces of valid ID (one of which must be government issued with a photograph). We do not allow gang or fight related apparel. We are members of the BarWatch program, so entry may be denied due to previous incidents at our or other participating venues.
