Saints and sentries

It's been a busy week for me, what with school starting up, thus the short delay in posting stuff from Friday's show at Luneta Cafe. It was an eclectic evening, kicking off with shoegazers Destroy Clocks, continuing with rugged fuzz poppers Saint Clare and concluding with instrumental metallurgists The Night Watch. Unfortunately I missed Destroy Clocks due to a late-night school project, so let's go straight on to Saint Clare.

The band takes its name from former Shakey Aches frontman Matthew Saint Clare, and also includes Richard Jeffrey and Ryan Shannon from that band. They profess fandom for Arcade Fire and various Elephant 6 combos. I thought they sounded like some of Spencer P. Jones' stuff.



Saxophonic action with Morgan Grant!



Bumpy action!



That's Daniel Devries on the drums.



Richard Jeffrey of Golden Famile and others rocks the Telecaster.



Matthew sings!



Extra Richard!



On to The Night Watch after the jump ...
This is an instrumental quartet, some of who will be familiar to followers of the blog for their part in Musk Ox, another instrumental avant-metal outfit. A primary difference with The Night Watch is that they really plug in. Here's drummer Daniel Mollema and bassist Matthew Cowan.



Here's the more Musky side of the band, Nathanael Laochette and Evan Runge.



Extra Matt!



More Evan!



Bonus Daniel!



Good show all around.