This one time at band camp

Back to the Kelp birthday shindig at Raw Sugar. Camp Radio is one of those Ottawa bands I see far too little of ... I figure I've caught them live perhaps twice since they performed at Kelp's 11th anniversary show at Barrymore's. In the hot and sweaty confines of Raw Sugar they were even more rocking than usual - of course they had some help ...

Chris Page! Dave Draves! Scott "Mad Stare" Terry!



Scott and the wall of turquoise.



Firebird action!



Chris sings!



Scott sings!



Dave sings!



Camping action!



Gripping action!



Singalong action!



More Dave!



Camp Radio, now with extra Jim Bryson!



Faceoff action! And completely obscured by the microphone stand, Mystic Zealot Jeff Kainz.



Singalong action!



Best rock-jumping photo ever? Just possibly.



More Jeff!



Back to back action!



And that's more or less all she wrote ... though of course Chris would be back to sling axe in Rhume later that evening. He'll also be heading west for solo shows with Jill Zmud. Scott has plenty of his own bands (including Klovenhooves, whose show last night I totally forgot to mention). Dave naturally is keeping busy with his production stuff, which is really just an excuse for me to mention how killer Jack Pelletier and The Battle of Ontario's Friends and Lovers is.

• Show reminder: Misery Signals, Structures, Beheading Of A King, Sleep Is For The Dead and Sirens and Serenades are at Mavericks; Old Crowns, Bret Caswell and the Marquee Rose are at Zaphod's. The Panama, The Amalgamation and Still Life Still grace Cafe DeKcuf. Chrysalis emerges at the Elmdale House; the Avant-Garde hosts Sweet Mother Logic.