Sleepy time

Justin Considerate described the night's line up as "three great bands and one noisy one." Well, actually it was four great bands. At least two of which were noisy. Particularly Sleeping Pilot. The quintet. You have Scott Birdwise singing and thrashing around like a loon, noted scene photographer and Experiment in Terror vet Alex Cairncross on bass, Pat Johnson on drums, Justin on guitar and Mike Bond on another guitar.

Birdwise yells.



Cairncross. On behalf of photographers everywhere, I plead for more dreadlocks.



Bond ... Mike Bond. I don't want to guess how many times he's heard that ...



Pat Johnson ... I told you it was better than his Army of St. Joan picture!



Birdwise takes some air ... darn microphone stand obscures Justin.



Comes crashing down to Earth. I hope he has a good splinter-removal kit, because he was rolling around on stage quite a bit.



Screaming in their sleep ...



Motion madness!



Percussion assistance action!



Here's a picture worth running big ... because otherwise you can't tell what the heck is happening!



Crazy band ... crazy show! And they play again tonight with Blue Skies At War, Wheels On The Bus, Viscera's Recital and This Is Rocket Science at Mavericks. All ages and doors at 8 p.m.

• Show reminder: As mentioned below, The Empiricals have their CD release show with Jake Lovetart and Nashi at Babylon. If Asian twang and party-hearty cock rawk isn't your thing, you might want to hie yourself to the Avant-Garde Bar for pop and experimental music from The London Apartments, Amathea and The Liars Rosebush. Or perhaps you've already decided to vapourize your central nervous system with the noise massif that is the Earthunder Festival at the Mill of Kintail in Almonte. Hosted/curated/transbombulated by the Fluorescent Friends, it features Panopticon Eyelid; Akisakila; Dreamcatcher; Larry Marshall; Kites; Goa; Wizzards; Nautical Almanac; Mindflayer; usaisamonster; and a bunch of "night time theatrics." Yes, folks, the musical stuff runs from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. So if you show up at 9 p.m. wondering when usaisamonster goes on, the answer is: Before you got there.