The competitors in this battle to the death; in the white corner, Toronto's DD.MM.YYYY - Tomas John Del Balls on guitar, King Matt on drums, Gordan Jones on keyboards and Howlin' Mike Plankton on bass. Their advantages: Four guys playing instruments and handy with calendars. In the other white corner, Quebexico: Vocalist The Funisher, guitarist Hell Ride, drummer Stagecoach and bassist Jaw. Their advantages: Roving singer and basically crackers.
Held in the famed lower bar of the Montgomery Legion Hall, the battle was launched by DD.MM.YYYY with a furious melodic assault, which I don't have a good picture of (apart from the teaser photo for this match). So we'll just go straight into ...
... Jaw getting the prize for funniest face of the night.
Quebexico's Funisher launches the counterattack!
Oh, the tragedy!
DD.MM.YYYY won't take that lying down!
Beware ... group action!
DD.MM.YYYY consider their tactics, and respond!
Quebexico fights back!
I think Chris's interpretative dancing skills were starting to worry the DDs.
Yes, this picture of DD.MM.YYYY's Jones stinks ... believe me you don't want to know how it looked before I fudged with the levels.
Normally anklebiting the competition is frowned upon, but since the Funisher had Jones' head in a thighlock just before this picture was taken, it may be allowed on the grounds of self-defence. This was literally at my own feet, which is why my camera bag is in the way.
Audience and bands were quite close.
Davey unleashes deadly bending action!
Microphone problems necessitated some improvisation.
I'm not sure using the other guys' equipment is cricket, but this is ruthless musical combat!
In between songs Chris fashioned his own headband. What a resourceful 15-year-old he is.
Flash action!
Yes, I did skip that part of photography class where they told you to shoot things at a level angle - how did you guess?
DD.MM.YYYY howl out a final challenge!
The final battle could only be settled one way ... the manly way! With drumming!
Well, actually they sang a co-song and Davey ended up standing on the drum kits.
"Okay, we'll call this one a draw, but don't let us catch you guys around here again!"
By popular consensus, a first-rate show.
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