There goes the night

The wet Wednesday at Mavericks was finished off with a really ripping set from The Novaks. The trio from St. John's, Newfoundland like their classic rock. Indeed I see that the keyboard player on their latest album Things Fall Apart is no other than Ian McLagan of Faces fame. I hear a big 1950s rock influence - Holly, Cochrane, Kidd et al. - to which they willingly cop, but I have to say the performer that first strikes my mind after the music hits my ear is Tom Petty, largely because singer Mick Davis sounds quite a bit like Petty.

Mark Neary! Mick! Elliott Dicks!



Mick bends! And is it just me, or are a lot of people rocking Gretsch G5120 Electromatics nowadays?



On the other hand, not many Mustangs around.



Elliot rocks the kit.



More running about from Mick!



Mick sings!



Mick goes down, Elliot gets up!



More Mark.



Extra Elliot.



The whole lot!



Heartfelt action!



In fact, these guys are more or less all action!



For a finale they had The Birthday Boys back on stage.



Oh, and a giant novelty drumstick!



Singalong action!



Jordan tries his hand at the drums (okay, drum).



And finally Jordan and Elliott take it to the crowd ... well, what there was of it.



Awesome show - next time hopefully the place will be packed, which is the audience both The Novaks and The Birthday Boys deserve.

• Show reminder: It's Day 2 for Xavier Rudd & Izintaba and Justin Nozuka at Bronson Centre Theatre; Society's Ills, Humanifesto, Snatchback and Bruce Boris are at Cafe Dekcuf; Man The Destroyer plays the Rainbow.