Death and destruction

After a couple of weeks on show hiatus due to a nagging cough, I returned to the scene to catch some squall, honking, synth and guitar courtesy of local jazz noisers Death Bop Trio (who I caught at Gabba Hey in January opening for Red Mass, billed as Throes), Moon Destroyer - last seen at Cafe Luneta, also earlier this year) and Montrealers Black Piranha, who are a declamatory punk trio not unlike a less freaky Le Georges Leningrad.

I failed to notice I had my shutter speed on way too low for my first round of photos. Here's a fuzzy trio, as seen through the window of Pressed.



Karla-Jo saxes it up.



Chris mans the keys.



Percussive action with Lee!



Psychedelic action!



On to Moon Destroyer, whose heavy psyche seems well suited to being played with bands which on the surface they share little in the way of sonic aesthetic. (Witness the last time I caught them, with Kitchener hardcore combos Dervish and Two Crosses).



Guitar action!



Moony action!



More guitar!



Percussive action!



Black Piranha (or BP Black Piranha, to give their full name) finished the night off with some shouty synth-driven hardcore thate mae me think of Aerobitch crossed with Street Meat (with whom they should do a show if they haven't already). Here's a shouty bit with Nathalie Gelinas!



And another shouty but from Jonathan Bigras. "I should have taken off this jacket before we started."



Plus percussive action!



The whole lot!



Noise-making action!



Fishy action!



Jonathan sings!



Extra shouting!



The end!



A very energetic evening.

Whirling into action

It's reading week, which means that in theory I can get out to more shows. In practice it means it means I'm spending most of days reading about Thomas Sheraton and computer numeric control. Thus, these photos of Two Crosses, Dervish and Moon Destroyer are coming a little later in the day than usual ... The three bands make for a slightly peculiar matchup. The local product are more in the heavy psyche mode, while the overlapping Kitchener combos both zipped through hardcore sets.

Lunar action!



Let there be light! (And also purple glitter pentagrams.)



Destructive action!



Vocal action!



I mentioned the purple glitter pentagram, right?



Pedal action!



On to Dervish, who played what might be the shortest set I've ever witnessed. It was 10 minutes start-to-finish, tops. There's a certain genius in naming a band from Kitchener Dervish ... Justin and Zack are also in Two Crosses. Here is Zack, on drums.



And here is Justin, in tights.



Turtleneckcore!



Whirling action!.



Finally Two Crosses blitzed their way through a quick finale. There was vocal action from Justin.



MK is the band's other singer. Unfortunately my D90 is dying on me, so my photos kind of stunk this time around.



Peter rounds out the quartet.



Running about!



The whole lot!



Zack hits!



Extra Justin and Zach!



And some final hair-tossing.



Short and sharp.

The crying game

Saturday night I headed over to Pressed. It was a chance to see a couple of bands I had neither seen nor heard of before, Eagle Tears and Moon Destroyer. Eagle Tears were the main draw for me since I like that retro-rock stuff. It was a fairly eclectic evening otherwise, with The SIck SIck Sicks' trademark Django-billy and Moon Destroyer's more post-sludge metal sound.

Moon Destroyer kicked things off ... they sounded a bit like the louder parts of Explosions In The Sky.



Feedback action!



There was also some some singing, but mostly they stick to the instrumental stuff.



Percussive action!



More guitar!



More bass!



Eagle Tears and Sick Sick Sicks after the jump ....