Unsilent night

For the last few years the Centretown Recording Alliance - i.e., folks from The Centretown Cripplers, Allrights and sundry - offshoots and their friends have thrown a seasonal shindig with a heap of bands. This year they rolled into Gabba Hey. The weather was about as uncooperative as it could get, but a few dozen people showed up to catch the action. I got there a bit late to see Thunderuncle start things off.

Patrick Shanks was up, singing about sumo wrestlers and beating up giraffes.



And so on!



Next up were Neck, who I've seen a bunch of of late - third show in two months, or something like that. They like their matching duds!



Johhny rocks the low end.



The whole lot!



Kevin hits!



Singalong action!



Santa action!



More Centretown action after the jump!

Starting with Yuma County, who apparently started off as a more countryish outfit, but have been steadily tilting in an 1980s rock direction as CRA bands are wont to do. Here's drummer Sara.



Shoutout action!



Glockenspiel action!



Trumpet action!



Tambourine action!



Then on Kiely took over the drumkit for a very rocking set from The Mnemonics.



Colin and Dave didn't have to go far.



Jon sings!



Faceoff action with Chris Cook!



And now for an outfit I haven't seen before, hard rockers Fresh Hell. They have a show coming up at Luneta this week if I heard correctly. Devin Cook is the CRA connection, other band members hail from Dead Weights, Tropical Dripps, Valveenus and Benevenstanciano. Here's drummer Vance.



And Devin.



Faceoff action!



Singalong action with Steve and Cory!



On to some solo stuff with Robots! Everywhere!'s Phil Castiglione!



Jumping action!



He was followed by some punchy rock courtesy of Slim & Popular, a trio formed by two guys from Elbeejay and Dave Faught of Blackball and Night Watch fame.



Brendan preapares for some stringbusting!



The whole lot!



More Brendan!



The whole lot!



Dave sings!



It's been a couple of years since I saw Four-Stroke play live. In the interim they've acquired a new drummer and a new guitarist.



Guitar action!



Ken sings!



Glassy action with Mike and Kris!



Shouty action!



Jon Kiely guest action!



Christmas hugs!



Assorted shenanigans!



Slo' Tom showed up to spread some festive cheer ... He'll also be appearing at the 2013 edition of Season's Beatings at Irene's Dec. 20 with the usual suspects (i.e. ManPower, BlackBread, Lucky Ron, Remi Royale and Mokomokai).



The Allrights zipped through a quick set to wrap things up.



Singalong action with Jon and Chris!



Mel frets!



The whole lot!



Extra Jon!



Chris sings!



The end!



Then it was time to slog home through the snow.