The other woman

The next band on stage were The Mistress. I had heard the name but knew nothing of the band. Then I went and checked out their Myspace and saw that two of the members were named Sammy and Wolfgang. Clearly this wasn another project of the brothers from Girlfriends. And so it proved to be. They have some of The Girlfriends helter-skelter appeal, but with a more hard rock, propulsive sound.

Sammy Automatic at left, Coupe DeVille at right and Jimmy "Naked Jim" Jr. at centre.



And Wolfgang, in his long underwear,  makes four.



Singalong action!



Wolfgang frets!



Jimmy rocks the Travis Bickle look.



Shouty action!



Coupe works the axe.



Jimmy stands up, Sammy sits down ... don't they know it's supposed to be the other way around?!?



Everybody's doing it.



Shirtless action!



Rolling around action!



Hair-shaking action!



Wolfgang works the crowd!



Unfortunately, somehow Wolfgang managed to yank the Marshall head off the half-stack, causing erious difficulties with the input. This led to some onstage wrasslin' with Chris Wild, of RottawaY, owner of said head.



The set concluded with some audience participation.



No word on when they play next. Unfortunately when I google Mistress nowadays 99% of what I get is about Tiger Woods ...

• Show reminder: See Joe Smile, Joe Zambon, Ami Jette bring their acoustic guitars to Zaphod Beeblebrox; Kele Fleming and Komatose are at The Rainbow; Big John Bates and The Rockalilly Burlesque rock Mavericks; the Elmdale House hosts the 18th Great Canadian Song-along.