This is modern life

Modernboys Moderngirls are a Toronto combo on a garage-soul kick. I can see them following in the footsteps of The Deadly Snakes, though some of their influences are a bit more modern than that lot's. They also covered Bruce Springsteen's I'm On Fire. Ming Wu also took a bunch of photos (which look much nicer). He had a second flash slaved to the one on his camera which went off simultaneously ... it also went off when my flash discharged, and for a while there I was starting to wonder if the new Mavericks stage's unpainted ceiling was having miraculous effects on my own photography.

Akira Alemany is a forceful frontman.



And here we go with some clapping from keyboardist Eddie Ruiter!



Bassist Juan Carlos Rivera is quite a livewire.





Chaaaaaarge! I'm definitely stealing Ming Wu's battery power in this photo ...



And this one ....



Drummer Brett Milius talks to the hand.



And so on!





They're a lively lot.



You can see Ming's second flash in the lower left corner ... mmmm, shadows!



Who says you need to play a bass right side up?



Big clapping finish!





There's was also some guitar discarding and jumping going on at the finale, none of which I managed to catch since my own batteries more or less gave up the ghost on the penultimate tune.

• Show reminder: The Dreadnoughts , Knives & Forks For Freedom and The Krapskraps, The Living Sound System and The Beer Barons rock Cafe DeKcuf; Marie-Josee Houle and Mathias Kom sock it to Zaphod's; Another Lost Hero, I Call This Safety, A Distance From and Fever Beard play Maverick's. The Wild Turkeys and Dustin Jones & the Rising Tide play the Elmdale House.