Here comes the fuzz

There were some cool heavy sounds for long-hairs at House of Targ back on July 19; Montreal's Pink Cocoon has bringing their 1970s' style heavy sounds through town, and Ottawa's own Nessie and The Deadseers were on hand to fill out the bill. The Deadseers were on first, with some QOTSA-goes-DIY sonics. Here's bassist Mart!



Al sings!



Kevin hits!



Extra Al!



More Mart!



Al sings!



The whole lot!



Extra, extra Al!



More Kevin!



A shouty bit!



Things took a turn for the proggier with Nessie's set. You may recognize keyboardist Kevin from The Aphelion. He's under that hair somewhere. They'll be back at Targ opening for Witch Mountain this Friday.



Jack sings!



Guitar action with Vincent!



Gesturing action, and also guitar action with Myke!



Singalong action!



More Myke!



Sean hits!



And so on!



Loch action!



More Myke!



Jack tapping action!



Emotive action!



And finally a bit more Vincent.



Pink Cocoon played a killer set (frontman Zolla will be playing a solo set at The Rainbow this Wednesday, by the way). And here he is!



Bass action with Julian!



Morgan hits!



Rhythm section action!



More Zolla!



The whole lot!



More Morgan and Julian!



More guitar!



Good stuff all around.

Love, death, woman, shame

I made another mid-July trip to Black Squirrel Books to catch the return of Incredible Woman. They played a great set at Targ in November, so I was pumped to catch them again. Also on the bill, The Shame, Dead Fibres and Ultra Love. Here's the Love gang starting things off.



Eric prepares to hit!



Guitar action with Pascale!



Pascale sings!



Rhythm section action with shouty Eric and Ted!



More Pascale!



Cymbal-gripping action!



Dead Fibres put on a great set of freakout grunge. The hail from Edmonton and were criss-crossing the country with Incredible Women in a tour that wraps up tonight in Montreal.Here's Zach on guitar!



Rhythm section action with Brandon and Kennedy!



Brandon hits!



Fibrous action!



Kennedy sings!



More Zach!



The whole lot!



Singalong action!



Deadly action!



If you've seen Incredible Woman, you know they put on a fine show of Iggy-styled no-holds-barred rock'n'roll. Here's some gripping action with Derm!



Guitar action! They were performing as a trio with a drum machine this time around.



Bass action with Danny!



Guitar-lifting action with Christian and Derm!



Guitar action with Derm!



Vocal action!



Incredible action!



Womanly action!



They're an active lot!



Bass action with Derm!



Music can be a tiring business.



The end!



I caught The Shame at this year's Ottawa Explosion; they're making quite a name for themselves. Here's Mikey, Kieran and Derek!



Kieran (who's also keeping busy in Power of Fear and Doxx) hits!



Mikey sings!


Bass action with Derek!



Closeup action!



Rhythm section action!



Mikey sings!



The whole lot!



A really solid night.