Air power

I've seen a trio of fine White Lung shows, and will probably see another in just a few days as they return to town behind their new album, Sorry, out on Deranged. And now, on with the witchcore.

Greenish action!



Anne-Marie hits!



Kenneth rocks the SG.



Gripping and Grady action!



Mish lurks.



The whole lot!



More monochromatic Mish action!



Extra Anne-Marie1



Drinking action!



More Grady!



The end!



They're back at Babylon on Thursday with Pregnancy Scares (that's frontman Craig in the Screamers jacket, in fact) and Critical Convictions.

• Show reminder: Ned Madison gets funky at the Avant-Garde; Stick Together, Badlands, Easy Way Out, Sabotage, At Odds, Raw Style and Vanishing Point punk it up at Montgomery Legion Hall; The Bigmuffs, FutureSnake and The Possessed rock Zaphod Beeblebrox; Pop Culture Icons, Pretty Little Death Machine, Letters from the Princess and It's Asshole Time rock Cafe Dekcuf; Wicked Grin performs at the Rainbow; Kelly Sloan and Ryan Cook play Irene's; The Flats release their new CD at the Elmdale with an assist from Montreal's  Sunfields.

Rub it in

Hand Cream played next - some New Wave jitters and girl group freak rock sounds ... ore something like that.

In the middle, some rhythm section action from Christian and Marlee.



On our left, guitarist and singer Meghan!



More Christian (we'll get along to keyboardist Crystal later).



Meghan is cozily dressed.



Crystal gets in on some bass action.



Christian doffs the shirt.



More guitar!



Marlee gets back on bass.



They've apparently been touring with JEFF The Brotherhood of late.

• Show reminder: Hollows, Boyhood and The Yips rock the Capital Rehearsal Studio; Sonburst, Vesperia, Signs of Chaos, Crimson Shadows and Endemise add more metal to the Brass Monkey; Lifestory: Monologue, I Spell It Nature, Mosely and The Archives perform at Cafe Dekcuf. Project Mars, A Darker Day and Metronome Jones play Zaphod's; Truncheons, Shackles and Proxy destroy the basement at 295 Powell; The Lake Effect makes waves at Irene's; The Social Divide and Dead Bees are at the Elmdale. First to Three, Kings Bishop and Second Silverado put the moves on the Avant-Garde Bar.

Island rock

A little while ago White Lung came through town; usually folks wait until their next album i prepped before going coast-to-coast, but White Lung appear to be addicted to touring. They even made it up to the Babylon stage for this show, which came pre-warmed courtesy of local noiseniks Caymans.

Blake sings!



Joni hits!



Plus, now with more saxophone, courtesy of Funktionary John Sobol!



More pummelling!



Bonus Blake!



More saxophone!



More electricity!



And so on.



What's next for them I know not.

Young Canadians

On to Eamon McGrath; I've seen him twice before, performing with Peter Dreimans. Although he started out with a few duo songs, he soon called up Matt and Jon from Winchester Warm to round things out.

First, Eamon and Peter.



Steel action!



And now, on with the band!



Peter adjusts his dials.



Matt hits~!



Eamon busts out the SG.



Gripping action!



Electric action!



Guitar-lifting action!



Matt sings!



Singalong action!



Jumping action!



And a solo encore.



Incredibly enough, he seems to not be touring right now.

• Show reminder: Farler's Fury, Royal Red Brigade, The Beer Barons and The Scally Cap Brats rock the Montgomery Legion Hallon Kent St.

Brother's gonna work it out

I've heard a bit about Brothers Through The Hill, one of the capital's plentiful roots rock combos, but haven't had a chance to see them live. I have, however, caught frontman Jack Spinks, who was tagged to open for Eamon McGrath at Zaphod's back in mid-April. He had Blair Hogan (now with Silver Creek as well) on hand to round things out a bit.

Speaking of who ...



Jack rocks the camo.



Jack sings!



Guitar action!



Bonus Blair.



Disco ball action!



Singalong action!



Haven't heard much recent news.

• Show reminder: Ben Caplan and Brandon Allan perform at Raw Sugar; The BushPilots go acoustic to fight cancer at the Rainbow.

Well allright!

And now the end of the evening and perhaps the most authentic re-enactment of the night, Iggy & The Stooges with Jo from Germ Attak and some Asile dudes.  Nudity! Cutting! Technical difficulties! Really spot on, I'd say.

Here they go!



When Frankie met Iggy.



I think this is the James Williamson version ...



Rhythm section action!



Unfortunately, the ceiling's too low for shoulders.



Patrick hits!



Staring action!



More bass!



Fisheye action!



Stoogey action!



More guitar!



And so on.



Do not touch guitarist.



He jumped clear out the frame.



Jo takes a trip.



He's starting to get the hang of things.



Eyeball-to-eyeball to action!



Spurting beer'n'blood.



The microphone had stopped working by this point ... might as well eat it!



Sensational!