It's Party Time

September 27 I popped over to The Rainbow to see a couple of Guelph related acts and Toronto's Party Time opened the show. Despite the name, the performances of Emma Moss Brender (sole proprietor, etc.) are not really geared to providing festive levity. I also wonder why someone would hide a cool name like Emma Moss Brender behind the relatively generic Party Time, but I guess that's a question for another time. I liked her set enough to buy her album.

I'd say she's a bit like Ottawa's own Giant Hand.



It was a little darker than usual, thus the cruddier low-light photos.



She was later joined by Matt Reeves of the Oil Spill.



Capo time!



Headliner Richard Laviolette prepares for his guest vocal moment.



Singalong action!



Big finish!



She's also a member of Toronto combo The Pinings; no word on upcoming shows from either combo.

• Show reminder: Man, where isn't there a party going on tonight? Ukrainia!, Empiricals and Lords of Vanier, live it up at Babylon; Good2Go and The Kingmakers rock the Elmdale House Tavern; Lindsay Ferguson, The Polymorphines, Blazer and The Sin Kickers hit Zaphod Beeblebrox; The Hammerheads get funky at The Rainbow; Monkeyjunk performs at Irene's; Rep By Pop is at the Avant-Garde Bar; if your part of the houes-partying demographic, there's also Homosexual Cops, The Suppositories, Ultrathin, Holy Cobras, Pregnancy Scares, Total Crush and Get A Life Losers down in Cozzie's Dungeon.