Wanted dead or alive

Back in October I hopped over to the House of Targ to catch Toronto fuzz-rockers Possum. They were joined on stage by the always excellent Deux Trois and youn rockers The Frequencies, who were up first with a very solid set. Here's singer Jaden, with bassist Kris.



Ted hits!



Guitar action with Brad!



More Kris!



Frequent action!



More Ted!



More guitar with Jaden!



And so on!



Deux Trois are no strangers to the blog at this point, and as usual they played a super set. Here's Ben!



Nadia sings and hits!



Bass action with Kiel!



Nadia hits!



More Kiel!



Extra Nadia!



Ben sings!



I hadn't heard much of Possum before catching their set, but they really knocked it out of the park, and I snapped up a copy of their new album, Space Grade Assembly, afterwards. Here's Patrick on bass!



Guitar action with Tobin!



Brad hits!



Patrick sings!



Guitar action with Brandon!



Extra Possum!



Psychedelic action!



And so on!



Playing dead action!



Brandon sings!



Singalong action!



Great stuff from all the bands.

Take two

A month ago, I toddled over to Bar Robo to check out a couple of great acts: Kingston's Deux Trois and Ottawa's own Mark ii Deux Trois were on first. Here's Nadia!



Bass action with Kiel!



More Nadia (and also Laura)!



Guitar action with Ben!



Numerical action!



Laura hits!



Gripping action!



Ben sings!



Laura sings!



On to Mark ii, who played a super set. They impress me more every time I see them! Here's Dana, Mike and Mark!



Gripping action!



Mike hits!



Dana ponders!



Electronic action!



Marked action!



Dana adjusts!



A super night out!

Two, three and more

I had a hankering to see Deux Trois again after their October show at Targ, and just my luck they were back in town on a bill with Scattered Clouds and Greathunter. This was my first time seeing Greathunter, but there's a few familiar faces, starting with guitarist and singer Andrew (also of Those Gulls and Decathlete).



Violin and bass clarinet (there's an instrument you don't see a lot of) action with Neil and Antoine!



Percussive action with Leigh (of World War 4 and many others)!



More violin!



More clarinet!



Double-bass action with Aaron!



Predatory action!



More Andrew!



Deux Trois were their usual intense self. Here's  Nadia!



Guitar action with Ben!



Bass action with Benjamin!



Bonus Ben!



Rhythm section action!



A shouty bit!



More Nadia!



Gripping action!



Benjamin sings!



Scattered Clouds put on a fine show as well; here's Jamie in full-on demonic librarian mode.



Bass action with Jeff!



Jamie hits!



Fender action with Phillippe!



And so on!



More bass!



Cloudy action!



Jeff sings!



Scattered action!



A super triple bill.