Around the sun

November was a slow month for me; not only were the shows few and far between, my Nikon D90 once again went on the fritz, forcing me to revert to my Olympus E-500. I went off to Mavericks on November 21 to see some heavy metal. Priestess was making one of their periodic jaunts through town, but best of all they brought Early Man with them. Montreal metal-punks Trigger Effect were also along for the ride. Unfortunately my E-500 does not function as well in low light as my D90, and all my flashless photos turned out cruddy (you can go to my Flickr photostream in you want to see the gruesome evidence firsthand).

So let's start with a flash ... I had it set to black and white, since monochrome photos tend to work out better without flash and I forgot to change my settings.



Oops!  lets just turn that back to colour ... there we go. Patrick Bennett on flying V, Nick Babeau on vocals, Jordan Brown on guitar, Mike Niro on drums and Sergio Da Silva on bass.



Nick is a good audience baiter-and-banterer.



Mike hits!



Jordan and Sergio action!



Gripping action!



Jordan bends!



Shouty action!



And that's it, because it was a short sharp set.

• Show reminder: Mother's Children and the newly minted Kokomo Punx play Babylon; Cold Coffee and Salty Boots and The Secret Loves rock the Clocktower Brewpub; another new crew The Start will perform at the Ottawa Little Theatre Foyeron King Edward; Modernboys Moderngirls, The Allrights and Burn Planetarium are at Cafe Dekcuf; Mini Mansions and That's The Spirit play Zaphod Beeblebrox; Bastien Vaultier and Butch Bouchard are at Cafe Umi; Julian Fauth performs at the Rainbow; The County Boys and Tilda whoop it up at Irene's; the Elmdale House hosts Brock Zeman.