Blood on the tiles

I have good memories of several sets among this year's Ottawa Explosions, and offerings from Montreal's Thee Nodes and Hamilton's TV Freaks were among them. When I heard both would be performing at Mugshots this Friday as part of Funhouse!, I knew just were I'd be last night. In addition to those crazy characters, Brannock, Pennsylvania's Blood Red were on hand to start things off with some polemical punk.

Prepare for re-education, people of Ottawa!



Bass action with Cassie Staub!



A shouty bit with Dave Rosenstraus (formerly of Pissed Jeans)!



Double action with Cassie!



Garrett Corbin hits, turns 30!



Fisheye action!



The whole lot!



Cassie sings!



Dave works the crowd!



With some guest guitar action courtesy of Dave from TV Freaks.



On to Thee Nodes and TV Freaks, after the jump!

Rock around the clock

Back to Mugshots Friday night for more tunes. Craig from Bruised Tongue is DJing on Fridays for August (the evening is dubbed Funhouse) and there's bands as well. Babysitter from Victoria came by and Ottawa's own Voicemail also rocked the yard.

Babysitter are 1970s-fixated grunge fans with a love of distortion and shouty vocals (there tape stuff makes me think of Dinosaur Jr.) and generally make a splendid racket.


Babysitter at Mugshots, August 9, 2013

Hairy action!


Babysitter at Mugshots, August 9, 2013

Voicemail finished things off; they've been busy this year and an album is apparently in the works for 2014.


Voicemail at Mugshots, August 9, 2013

There was also a cover of Mabel's I Am A Hot Dog in there somewhere, along with a lot of bad jail and doughnut puns.


Voicemail at Mugshots, August 9, 2013

That was fun.