First favourites

On Canada Day I headed over to the House of Targ again, this time for some Canadian content, Ottawa style. A bunch of performers celebrated the national music scene by covering some of their faves for a big crowd. I missed the first act (featuring folks from Criticull); when I walked in the door some folks from Low Noise productions were doing some Skinny Puppy.



Masked action!



Keyboard adjusting action!



And so on!



Fist-pumping action!



The next band on stage were the Hot Snake Handlers, but I was too busy eating perogies to take any photos of them running through tunes by David Wilcox and The Northern Pikes. After they wrapped up with some Hardcore Logo soundtrack action, most of the The Lindbergh Babies took a stab at some of their West Coast faves, including NoMeansNo. Here's some guitar action with Greg!



Shouty Ken!



Tara sings!



Bass action with Janine from Porcelain Forehead and Unwarranted Trust!



Singalong action!



Faceoff action!



Extra Tara!



Jon hits!



More Greg!



Gripping action!



Extra Janine!



Jon sings!

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Some Sidelines and Doxx guys stepped up to do a few Gob tunes. Here's some guitar action!



Bass action with Ska Jeff!



Vocal action!



Percussive action!



More singing!



Rhythm section action!



Singalong action!



If that wasn't enough pop-punk action for you, Pistols At Dawn came on next to absolutely slay with their covers of Sum 41 tunes. Here's some percussive action with Tony!



Appropriate T-shirt action!



A shouty bit!



Animalistic action!



Motivated action!



Singalong action!



Uvula turned the clock back a few decades with covers of Andy Kim's No. 1 hit, Rock Me Gently, Paul Anka's Having My Baby and a pair of Neil Young tunes.



Jamie hits!



Pat sings!



Jarrett sings!



Jolly Jamie action!



Mosely dedicated their set (mostly) to Alanis Morrisette, with an Our Lady Peace chaser. Here's some vocal action with Dani!



Singalong action with Mike!



Guitar action with Eric!



Bass action with Mat!



Hair-tossing action!



Cymbal-stopping action!



Eric sings!



In Heat rocked some Lee Aaron and Helix tuneage, along with Loverboy and one of their own. Here's Joady and Tony!



A shouty bit with Lefty!



Guitar action with Brent!



Percussive action!



Extra Joady!



Gym-suited action!



Lefty sings!



Not-quite-finally, Slo' Tom tackled the songs of that other Tom, Stompin', such as Sudbury Saturday Night and Big Joe Mufferaw.



Spoon action with Remi!



Extra Slo'!



Stompin' action!



Remi finished up by singing a few tunes (in the crowd, so my photos really didn't turn out) and there was also some pickled egg contest action. I think everyone's agreed to do it again next Canada Day!