The devil you know

The Devil Eyes following The Secret Loves with their ultrafuzzy, freaked-out blues rock. Their set got off to a bit of a bumpy start when Matt broke a guitar string straight out of the gate - then again when I saw them in July 2008 at the Bytown Tavern stuff was breaking right and left too. They covered Johnny Kidd's Please Don't Touch this time around too.

Matt puts the guitar on, strums strings, breaks one, takes guitar off ...



Patrick Shanks lent him his Yamaha.



Come to think of it, Zeelagh was wearing his Animal T-shirt back then too! Somethings never change ... or maybe musicians are just too poor to buy a new shirt every two years.



Emilor shouts!



Goldtop action!



Slide action!



Pickin' action!



Singalong action!



Matt goes down! Patrick had restrung his guitar, which is why he switched back.



Bending action!



The whole lot!



Emily switchs to drums to let Zeelagh rock the microphone ...



In a big papier mache cow skull, that is!



Guitar-whipping action!



Japanese rapping action!



And there you go. I bought their new CD this time around; it's really good, and plays much better than the CD sandwiched between two cement blocks did.

• Show reminder: The Kelp Records' 16th anniversary show kicks off with sets at the Mayfair Theatre by Jim Bryson and Chris Page; Doom Cannon, Think Twice, Torcherror, Exile The Prophet and Man-Bear-Pig rock Cafe Dekcuf; Morgan Davis is at the Rainbow; the Elmdale House hosts Jillian Brady, Jonathan Becker and Darren Eedens.