Saturday, January 01, 2011

This year, that year

Happy New Year everyone! I had the day (and night) off since the Ottawa Sun doesn't publish Saturday, and spent it doing productive things such as having lunch with my aunt, searching for a missing sweater, going to the gym, buying some death metal and African garage pop, clearing out my closet and of course heading off for a night of revelry at Babylon.

The show was opened by Male Nurse. Davey Quesnelle is no doubt relieved at having finished off his 365-songs'n'stuff recording odyssey over at his Tumblr site ... although since he's at 364 as of this writing I guess he has one more to do.

Male Nurse at Babylon
Male Nurse at Babylon, December 31, 2010
 
He played a clamorous set aided by Steve Adamyk and Dave Forcier, full of kicks and jumps and feedback.

Male Nurse at Babylon
Male Nurse at Babylon, December 31, 2010

Next up were Year Zero ... you may recall their CD release show back in July. This time, they were holding their record release show since the vinyl has landed courtesy of the fine P.trash label.

Year Zero at Babylon
Year Zero at Babylon, December 31, 2010 

As you can see they dressed up all snappy for the occasion.

Year Zero at Babylon
Year Zero at Babylon, December 31, 2010 

They also had a super-secret special guest for the last two songs ... Davey! Okay, so not much of a surprise there.

Year Zero at Babylon
Davey Quesnelle with Year Zero at Babylon, December 31, 2010 

At around 11 p.m. the man and woman of Shameless took over: Emmanuel Sayer and Cait Powers that is.

Shameless at Babylon
Shameless at Babylon, December 31, 2010 

Plus, there were lasers!

Shameless at Babylon
Shameless at Babylon, December 31, 2010

It was all swell except that my Nikon Speedlight died ... oh well, it has taken about 30,000 photos in the last 18 months so I can't say it hasn't served me well. Thank goodness for the D90's excellent on-camera flash. (The Speedlight's also still under warranty, so fingers crossed I get a free replacement.)
  • Show reminder: Steve Marriner and his happy helpers will hold forth at Irene's.

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