Her Majesty's Ship

A heap of keyboards, high vocal harmonies, sombre moods, off-kilter pop nous, a couple of drummers and a grab bag of instruments goes into Royal Canoes' sound. They jammed them all into Raw Sugar for a fine show. Here's a familiar face: Bucky Driedger of The Liptonians.



Pulling back we get Liptonian No. 2, Matt Schellenberg on the left and Matt Peters.



On bass, Brendan Berg; the shadowy figure of Liptonian No. 3, drummer Michael Jordan is at right.



Keyboards and more keyboards!



Singalong action!



Acoustic action!



Getting a picture of one drummer at Raw Sugar is hard enough, getting a picture of two (namely Derek Allard) is nigh impossible.



It can be a bit hard to manouevre around the cafe with a sextet.



More keyboard action!



Matt Peters munches microhpone.



They have a couple of western dates on the go.

• Show reminder: There will be some mind-expansion outside the National Gallery of Canada as the VEO (a.k.a. The Valiha Experimental Orchestra, a Castor-associated group) performs from 6 to 8-ish.  A short walk away and just about an hour later, Milk Music, Pregnancy Scares and Solids will rock Cafe DeKcuf. The Kestrels, Aim Low and Fiveways perform at Zaphod's; the Elmdale hosts Music Maul and Kris and Dee.