Targ the Third

Monday isn't a regular night for shows, but the House of Targ was celebrating its third birthday, so off I went to catch performances by spikey pogo crew Pok Gai, old school Peterborough metallurgists Mokomokai and Japan's crazy boogiemasters Zoobombs. First up, the spikey ones. Here's Wil!



Tim sings!



Trasha hits!



Guitar action with Matt!



More Tim!



More Will!



Matt sings!



Gripping action!



Rhythm section action!



More Trasha!



There was some between-set DJing from various New Swears (who also have a pair of record release show at Targ on June 23 and 24.



The Zoobombs played a great set; frontman Don Matsuo seemed to be in a particularly cheery mood.



Don sings!



Matta sings!



Rhythm section action with Bukka Billy and Machiko!



More Billy!



Machiko sings!



More Don!



Extra Billy!



Gesticulating action!



It's not a third anniversary without a quick motorcycle run through the club!



Mokomokai ended the night with some smokey action! Here's bassist Jeremy!



John sings!



Flying V action with Bobby!



A shouty bit!



Headbanging action!



J.J. hits!



Jeremy sings!



Gather-on-the-riser action!



More John'n'Jeremy!



And finally Alex from New Swears lets us know this show was brought to us by the Number 3.



Goodnight kids!

New voices

I figure it's a good idea to start the new year by checking out some bands I've never seen before. I went over to House of Targ for Volume 2 of "Voice Of A Generation" to catch a quartet of punk rock acts. Photographing the local scene for more than a dozen years means that there's always a few familiar faces, so even though openers Omerta are pretty fresh, you'll recognize some folks if you've been following the blog. First, here's some guitar action with Rick!



Sierra sings, Dan bangs head!



More Rick and Patrick!



The shouty bit!



Patrick hits!



Extra Rick!



More Dan!



Silent action!



More Dan!



Up next, Pok Gai; you've seen Will before playing guitar with Shackles, drumming with such bands as Alcohol Fuelled, now here he is singing (with an assist from Ataxia's Frank)!



Bass action with Tim (also Alcohol Fuelled)!



Tasha (of Slumlord) hits!



Guitar-action with Matt!



Spikey-haired action!



Extra Trasha!



Singalong action!



Extra Will!



And so on!



It was also the birthday of Sammy, who got a celebratory dousing with silly string.



Ataxia was celebrating the release of their new tape.



Frank sings!



Scott (of many loccal punk bands) reaches for a new stick!



Guitar action with Aaron!



Extra Frank!



Bass action with Kailey!



More Scott!



Winking action!



More bass!



Even more Scott!



Disorderly action!



Cacophonous Montreal hardcore combo Drip closed the night with some raucous sounds. I don't know who anyone in the band is, so here they are!



Percussive action!



Bass action!



Flying V action!



Gripping action!



More drumming!



Aiming action!



The next edition of Voice of A Generation rolls out Feb. 25 at the House of Targ.