Good for the soul

Ottawa R&B act Maya and Alanna were performing as I walked into Babylon Tuesday night at a little past 10. Ben Mullin (last seen testing my powers of identification with The Caution Press) and Tristan Boucher were providing a tasteful, minimalist backing on guitar and drums.

Maya and Alanna (right to left, that is).



Alanna takes it to the river.



Don't mess with Maya.



Here's the whole crowd, with Tristan on drums and Ben on guitar.



Dap-King Bosco Mann jumped aboard for Chain of Fools ... I think he may sleep in those sunglasses.



I had much better pictures of Alanna and Maya that I managed to make a mess of by turning up my flash way too high. Oops. So you'd better go see them live - they perform at Fresco Cielo every Saturday at 10:30 until June 15.

• G7 Welcoming Committee ecording artist Greg Macpherson and his band perform with the Recoilers, Steve Cuch and The Spanish Main at Mavericks Bar tonight.

Ben!

Hurray, my witless teasing has paid off with a positive ID (unless someone's yanking my chain)! Ben Mullin of the Caution Press is this chap here (who I seem to recall was always saying the group was The Beatles ... does that make the keyboardist Billy Preston?), at least according to "Anonymous":



I've actually begin to put some effort into getting people's names, so hopefully NCR will attain even greater heights of semi-accuracy. Now, does anyone want to cough up the other Caution Press names? Website URL? Astrological signs? Favourite colour?

Cautionary tale

The Caution Press opened for The Diableros and Department of Foreign Affairs. They did a pretty good job (and went over well), but weren't really my cup of tea ... well at least the pictures turned out okay, if I do say so myself. These guys don't have much of a web presence yet, so all I know so far is that one of them is named "Ben Mullin."

Maybe it's this guy ...



No, wait ... maybe him?



I suppose it could be either of these guys .... There was fair amount of instrument switching between the guitarist, bassist and keyboardist.



Ben?



Well, isn't there a little Ben Mullin in all of us? Okay, maybe not. Needless to say anyone who wants to put names to faces, drop me a comment ...

• Breaking news: The Telepathic Butterflies will play at Zaphod's April 30. They played a fine show at Irene's last time they were in town - I'm keen to see them again. No word yet on an opening act, but apparently Eugene and Co., are taking suggestions ....
  
• Show reminder: If you're in the mood for punk and in Barrhaven (an unusual combination, I grant you) the Botched Suicides, the Rookers, the Sewer Rats and the Sweet Janes are playing Greenfield's Pub tonight.