Howie do it

Back to Cafe DeKcuf and headliner Howie Beck's fine set of alternatively sweet and sour pop. As mentioned earlier he had a fine band. Despite some first-show-with-a-band misigivings from Beck, things went pretty smoothly, and made a pretty good argument for his new album, Falling Down in Public. Beck kicked things off with some drumming on a kit set up in front of the stage ... more on that later.

From left to right, a mostly obscured Bryden Bairdon on keys and brass, Beck, guitarist Dean Drouillard and Dennis Mohammed on bass - drummer Kieran Adams is somewhere behind Drouillard.



Low-light Beck.



The whole lot!



More Beck.



Bairdon horns in.



Beck takes another spin on the traps.



Kieran prepares for a mighty thump ... my shutter speed for this shot was pretty high I recall, so you can tell he was really blazing away.



More percussion.






Back to guitar.



And a big finale with a drum battle between Beck and Adams.



His first tour is done, so what next? I can't seem to turn up any word on the broadcast of Beck's performance - anyone who can point readers in the right direction, please leave a comment.

• Show reminder: Exodus, Warbringer, Drillpoint and The Unavowed play Mavericks; Milkbagbrother, IRONBITCHFACE and Dylan Taylor perform at the Exile Infoshop; Couer de Pirate and Marie-Josee Houle are at Zaphod's; Fuzzy Bunny Slaughterhouse rock The Rainbow at their CD release along with Dressed to Klown.