No choice at all

It's Tuesday, and those of you who haven't been trapped behind colossal walls of snow can shuffle over to Irene's to see Sarah Hallman perform; also on stage are Down With The Butterfly.


Sarah Hallman, Babylon, July 22, 2006

I saw Faber Drive at Bluesfest 2007. I did not like them. But they must have a few fans, and they're appearing with Canadian Idol victor Brian Melo, Hello Operator and The Prefect at Mavericks. More to my fancy are Sadie Hell, Rich Aucoin and I See Rowboats , who'll be performing upstairs at Cafe Dekcuf.


Sadie Hell, Zaphod Beeblebrox, April 15, 2007

On Wednesday The Coggs, Hellbros and Goddamn Goddamns louden things up a mite at Zaphod Beeblebrox.


The Goddamn Goddamns, Zaphod Beeblebrox, February 17, 2007

And the artistically inclined might want to go to the National Art Gallery Thursday to see Crush Luther, The Love Machine, Ukrainia, Antizario and Clepto and the Gypsies perform as part of the Nat Gal's "Annual Teen Event" at noon.



Last but not least, John Allaire is performing over at The Rainbow Thursday evening with Kaya Fraser.

Blasphemy-a-go-go

The Goddamn Goddamns were up next. They're from Burlington and have got the 1950s 'billy style going (in part, anyway) and sound like a more rock, less roll version of Social Distortion.

Guitarist Johnny Allman fronts Burlington trio Dark Pearl.



Lizzy Trash sings lead and plays hollowbody. (That's a somewhat spectral Johnny at left).



Drummer Snarly.



Bassist Chud.



Goddamn action - goddamnit!











Liz asked the audience to raise a cheer to get the guys to take off their shirts. It was a sort of halfhearted cheer so only Chud followed through entirely.



The whole damn bunch!



I thought they were pretty good; I chatted briefly with Chud post-show and he said this was their first gig; I thought they sounded quite a bit more road-tested than that.

• Show reminder: Germans, VKNGS, The Soft Disaster and The Allrights perform at Mavericks.

Hell and goddamn

Zaphod's hosted Music and Art 5 last night. There was a bunch of pop culture artwork (and a few handicrafts - skateboards, jewelry, wristbands) and four cool bands. I passed on the art but enjoyed sets from Sadie Hell, the premiere from Burlington's The Goddamn Goddamns and The Hellbros, who played a thunderous closing set.

First up Ben and Sean; Sean will be playing soon as half of No Other Way March 1 at live Lounge, as will Sadie Hell. No Cindy, she was home with a fever.



The Goddamn Goddamns rock on a Social Distortion tip with a female singer.



The Rude Dudes set aside their usual skapunk for a cover-heavy set (which I missed a good chunk of for reasons I'll disclose later - what I did hear was fun).



Finally The Hellbros played until night-noon.



Even more killer than last time.