Eastern promises

After a long drought of shows I could attend (with just an instore from Chris Page to tide me over) I finally had a chance to see a night of live music courtesy of a trio of young acts at The Rainbow. At first I thought the openers were called Euthanasia. Then I thought they were called Youth In Asia, but no one would call themselves that since its been used too often. No, this trio is actually called Youth and Asia and sound somewhere in the vicinity of Pavement and Jonathan Richman.

Charles Cheang sings and guitars.



Rhythm section action with Derek Jones on the drums and Blake Scott on bass.



Stomping action!



More Jones!



More Blake!



Faceoff action!



The fisheye view.



The whole lot!



More Charles.



Blake sings!



Big finish!



They have a show Saturday at 1848, a University of Ottawa student bar.

• Show reminder: Kingdom Shore, provide some musical accompaniment for Nelson Ross Laguna's book release at Exile Infoshop; Innes Wilson and His Opposition and Glory Glory Man United are at Raw Sugar; The Brains, The Koffin Kats, The Dreadnoughts and Machine Gun Dolly at Mavericks; Mekhaya, The Great Sabatini and Signs of Chaos rock Cafe Dekcuf; In Flight Safety, Said The Whale, and Graham Wright are at Zaphod Beeblebrox; Useless ID, Old School Politics, The PG13s, The Beer Barons and Kill City play for the benefit of the Westminister Pet Sanctuary at The Rainbow. Lonesome Paul and The Valley Ramblers perform at Irene's; The Elmdale House Tavern hosts Ball and Chain and The Wreckers.The Sean Kemp Band plays at the Avant-Garde Bar.