Sting like a butterfly

The Telepathic Butterflies put on a high-energy show at Zaphod's April 30 ... I don't remember them being so hard-edged when they played at Irene's many moons ago (if memory serves, they were a duo at that show). A pretty sparse crowd when they started, but the club kids were grooving along by the time the show wrapped up.

The man in black ... Rejean Richard.



This photo does not accurately capture what a wiggly fellow bassist Eric Van Buren is.



Drummer Jacques Dubois acts like someone plugged him in.



The entire group - their feet are in Memphis, their heads are somewhere in Roy Wood and Andy Partridge's space.



A couple of final shots of Rejean ... the red and the black ...



... and working the feedback - always a good way to end a show.



They finished things off with an encore that included the Dukes of Stratosphear's My Love Explodes.

• Show reminder: USAisamonster, AIDSwolf, SLEEPINGpilot and more do strange things to your eardrums at Club SAW as the 2nd Annual Ottawa Underground Music Festival continues.
• Breaking news: The Immortal Lee County Killers - who have added an organist to the lineup - and The Double Pumpers will play Irene's July 10.