Mystic eyes

Around the beginning of May, the nice people at Asher Media invited me to check out on of their clients, Dizzy Mystics, at Mavericks. Also on the bill: Lions Leading Sheep, Lessons In Crime and The Deadseers (who are also performing at Targ this Saturday with Dopethrone). Unfortunately I arrived to late to catch the openers, Lessons In Crime, so we head straight in to the Deadseers' set. Here's Mart and Kevin!



Kevin sings!



Hair-tossing action!



More Kevin!



Guitar action with Al!



The whole lot!



More guitar!



Microphone swallowing action!



Al sings!



Mart sings!



On to Dizzy Mystics, who are touring behind their new album, Wanderlost. They've got a psych-prog sound going on. Here's bassist Aaron and vocalist Kyle!



Guitar action with Alexandre!



Jeffrey hits!



Aaron sings!



Extra Kyle!



More Jeffrey!



More bass!



Bonus Alexandre!



Dizzy action!



Mystical action!



And so on!



And finally a bit more Jeffrey.



Lions Leading Sheep rounded the night off with some alt-rocking sounds. Here's guitarist Krystopher, singer Rob and a mostly obscured Ryan on bass!



Guitar action with Denis!



Brian hits!



Brian sings a bit!



Gripping action!



Extra Ryan!



More Krystopher!



Enthusiastic action!



Extra Rob!



Krystopher sings!



More Ryan!



Leonine action!



An entertaining night out.

Evil thoughts

Local punk rock vets Neck have a new album out, and celebrated its release with a show at the Dominion Tavern, alongside Toronto's School Damage. Labelmates Flying Fortress kicked things off. Here's Steel Rider!



And on guitar Mike! Yes, they were flying as a trio for this set.



Brandon sings!



More Mike!



More Steel!



Tapping action!



Even more Steel!



Mike sings!



And so on!



Brandon sings!



On to School Damage, who sped through a set of snotty punk. Here's guitarist and vocalist Brad and a second guitarist whose name I don't know ...



Bass action with Jon!



Curtis hits!



More Brad!



Extra Jon!



Brandon sings!



Jon sings!



Extra Curtis!



More guitar!



Neck wrapped things up by blitzing through tunes from their new LP on Uncle D, You Don't Think It's Evil. Here's Kevin!



Bass action with Johnny!



More Kevin!



Jeff sings!



Closeup action!



More Jeff!



More guitar!



It was a multi-layered show.



The whole lot!



Good stuff all around.