Three-letter words

We're in for another week of fabulous entertainment, 95% of which I will miss, goldarnit. Nothing seems to be brewing tonight (drop a comment if you know different), but on Wednesday the weird and wonderful (or at least weird) Daiquiri will be appearing at End Hits with Squelchbox and Behold...The Arctopus. Thursday you can see Coliseum, Victims, Trash Talk and Metz at Mavericks.


DOA, Barrymore's, June 13, 2006

Early Friday, Cancer Bats unleash their new CD at Mavericks with Black Lungs, A Textbook Tragedy, Clepto and Knives For Kids. Over at The Dominion DOA celebrate their 30th anniversary. At Zaphod's you can see Dead and Divine, Alex R. Newman and 27 York. Brendan Flynn and The Terrible Liars perform at Cafe DeKcuf with Gianna Lauren. Flash Update: Lucky Ron and Steve Stacey and the Stumpsplitters will perform at the Elmdale House Tavern.


BBQ, Mavericks, August 2004

Saturday Mark Sultan - BBQ as he's known to some - performs at Babylon with The Felines and The Visitors; A Trophy Life, Sam Slick and The Epilogue rock the End Hits basement. However, The Allrights show at Irene's has been postponed. Maybe later this month, I'm told.
On Sunday Queens of the Stone Age perform at The Civic Centre with Mugison; over at Babylon you can catch Tiger Army, The Unseen and The Creepshow - provided of course you had the foresight to buy a ticket. Mardeen and Mercy, The Sexton bring some tuneful East Coast indie rock to Cafe DeKcuf. The Populars also have a CD release party at Zaphod's with The Conservatory for the Regression of Sound and Junkie and The Spider.

Live Dead

DOA must be Canada's longest serving punk rock band - they're like the Motorhead of punk. Joe "Shithead" Kiethley is the only original member, but they had an experienced lineup for their Barrymore's show. Bassist Randy Rampage has been on board since the genre-naming Hardcore 81, and the Great Baldini (a.k.a. Jan Rodgerson) has done his time as well. These guys kick it out live, with Joe in particular showing off rock jumps that would do credit to a punk half his age. Joe has kept active running Sudden Death Records, recording a solo album and writing a book, I Shithead: A Life In Punk, but his real claim to fame will always be as the hoarse-voiced frontman of DOA.

Joe.



Randy Rampage was quite mobile, even with the leg brace.



The Great Baldini!





Dead On Arrival action!











"This is the wanking part of our set!"



Despite Joey's prodigious jumping this was the best pic I could get.



Big finish!





They recently rereleased their classic War on 45 with a bunch of extra tracks. Edwin Starr's always timely War and I'm Right You're Wrong got a run through in their lengthy set.

• Show reminder: The Vespertine Choir plays the Aloha Room.

Dead or alive

I zipped into Barrymore's nice and early, but Layiterslayit must be nicer and earlier because I barely had time to snap four pictures before they were off the stage. Four-Stroke rocked through their hardcore set, and then it was time for DOA to crunch through their own performance. The pictures were mostly so-so, but here's the results of some preliminary salvage work.

Mike Hunter of Layiterslayit.



Four-fifths of four-stroke.



Randy Rampage and Joey Shithead of DOA - of course!



Well, this was my fifth show in as many days - fortunately I have a vacation day tucked away to recuperate on Wednesday and prep all the pictures I've taken for posting. Were it not for my incredible stamina my head would be hitting the keyboard right about nnbdgdfhgergf3646rtg8oy3bgfvdlglbear7ti45.