Strange places

As April arrived I headed over to the Glebe for a rare show at the Clocktower. The basement space was quite packed for a mostly instrumental outing from Room Control, Forgotten In The Woods Again, The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol and City Gates. FITWA were up first, reduced to a trio for this occasion. Here's Skotty on hooded guitar!



Bass action with Greg!



Mike hits!



More Greg!



Extra Mike!



Bonus Scotty!



The whole lot!



Adjusting action!



Next up, TBWNIAS! Here's Bill!



Guitar action with Dave!



More Bill and Scot!



John hits!



More Scott!



Jason adjusts!



More John!



Fisheye action!



Bass action with Nate!



More Dave!



And so on!



Extra Jason!



More Scott!



Montreal's Room Control busted out the lights for their spacey set. Here's Robert and Dan!



Keyboard action with Byron!



Adjusting action!



More Robert!



Nico hits!



More Byron!



More Nico!



The City Gates introduced some vocals into the mix - they made me think a bit of The Chameleons. Here's Max!



Bass action with John!



Justin hits!



Singalong action!



More Justin!



John sings!



Municipal action!



Rhythm section action!



The whole lot!



Illuminated action!



A super night of music.

In the dark

As March turned to April and winter changed to more winter, I headed over to Pressed to check out Forgotten In The Woods Again and Le Pelican Noir, two bands I haven't had the privilege of hearing before, and Obsidian Will, whose first show at the Daily Grind I saw way back in December 2014. First up FITWA. Here's keyboardist Adriana and bassist Greg!



Guitar action with Scotty!



Smokey bass action!



All eyes on Scotty!



The whole lot!



Extra Adriana!



Unfortunately for photography, drummer Mike was stuck in the corner behind some of Le Pelican Noir's gear.



More smoke and Adriana!



Nocturnal krautrock fans Le Pelican Noir were on next. Here's a very grainy Maxime! (The lights were down low for a projection.)



An even grainier picture of bassist Sylvaine!



Things weren't much brighter for Obsidian Will. Since I saw them they've expanded into a trio. Here's Liam!



Violin action with Justin!



More Liam! (You can just make out Lloyd down there in the corner on drums.)



Obsidian action!



Electronic action with Lloyd!



All good stuff.