Besnard Lakes

Olga Goreas and Jace Lasek are the husband-and-wive team at the core of The Besnard Lakes, a very loud psychedelic band from Montreal with something of a Sonic Youth/My Bloody Valentine feel (and a slightly cryptic website). They opened for The Unicorns April 7, 2004, and blew them off the stage, along with several eardrums.

The talented Mr. Lasek.



The missus.



The rest of the band is going to be sort-of anonymous. According to a story in Chart Attack Lasek and Goreas parted ways with earlier musical partners before recording Volume 1. Their band was drafted in part from The Field Register, another group that Goreas plays with, while pal Jeremiah Bullied rounded the live act out. I'm guessing that Kees Dekker filled the guitar spot and Gilles Castilloux played drums, since that's what they do in the Register, leaving Bullied on bass, but I could be entirely wrong ...
Anway, here's the rhythm section. I'm not sure the bassist is really concentrating ... there's something about that ceiling ... all those pipes 'n' things ....



Some hot keyboard action!



I'm sure 99% of the people at this show came for The Unicorns; the Lakes were much more impressive.