Sunday, March 02, 2014

It was a dark and stormy night ...

There were plenty of shows I could have gone to Saturday night, but in the end I just made the short trek to Babylon for the Lefty McRighty DJed Dark and Stormy Night to check out the Steve Adamyk Band, the ever-crazy Tropical Dripps and the latest iteration of Brendan Flynn's Terrible Liars. Of course I asked Lefty for the lowdown on his hoedown showdown (to make a long story short, those with a mind to help him fight off the legal attentions of Capital Hoedown supremo Denis Benoit should ready themselves for Capital Super Successfest on April 3 at the Rainbow).  Here's Lefty on the wheels of steel ... er, okay on the laptop of whatever.

Lefty McRighty at Babylon

On to the music, starting with the Terrible Liars. Davey Quesnelle is now on board, and things were sounding a lot more Twin-Tone than at the last gig by the band I witnessed, when they were opening for The John Henrys at Mavericks.

Terrible Liars at Babylon

Percussive action!

Terrible Liars at Babylon

Terrible action!

Terrible Liars at Babylon

Brendan sings!

Terrible Liars at Babylon

"I brought show shoes so I wouldn't be swimming in my Sorels." That about sums up the winter band experience ...

Terrible Liars at Babylon

Twin cities action!

Terrible Liars at Babylon

Davey rips it up.

Terrible Liars at Babylon

Rhythm section action!

Terrible Liars at Babylon

Brendan twists!

Terrible Liars at Babylon

On to the wild and crazy surf sounds of Tropical Dripps. As you'd expect with a Fun-Boy Club House associated act, things got pretty crazy in the crowd. First, some more twist action!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

Jumping about with Kurt from The Yips!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

Mikey sings!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

The whole lot!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

Hair-shaking action!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

Kieran hits!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

Mikey goes down!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

Kurt sings!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

The crowd flips for Dripps!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

Tropical action!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

Tumbling action!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

The end!

Tropical Dripps at Babylon

The Steve Adamyk Band wrapped things up ... here's some rhythm section action with Seb and David.

Steve Adamyk Band at Babylon

Steve sings!

Steve Adamyk Band at Babylon

David hits!

Steve Adamyk Band at Babylon

Bangs-tossing action!

Steve Adamyk Band at Babylon

Bendy guitar action!

Steve Adamyk Band at Babylon

Extra Davey!

Steve Adamyk Band at Babylon

Assorted rocking about!

Steve Adamyk Band at Babylon

Kicking action!

Steve Adamyk Band at Babylon

Steve and Co. are recently returned from recording in California, so I assume some more music is imminent ...

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