Death, doom and drone

Since the weather inched out of the minus-30-with-windchill zone Friday night, I decided to make a short trip to the basement of 612 Gladstone and check out more heaviosity at the House With No Name (not its actual name). Toronto doomsters IRN were passing through town, house resident Tom of Spilt Guts has a new band and Topon Das of Fuck The Facts has some drones, so everything came together quite nicely.

First up, some gripping action with Tom (of Spilt Guts fame, like everyone else in the freshly minted combo)!



Evan frets!



Phil hits, offers Vulcan salute!



Deathly action!



The whole see-through lot!



And so on!



I feel like I've seen quite a bit of Topon Das lately - in addition to Fuck The Facts, I've caught him solo and with Merdarahta. I'm really liking his drone stuff, too.



Adjusting action! He's certainly doing his part to keep the folks at Fairfield in clover.



I admit I fooled around quite a bit with the shutter speed ... can you tell?



Well, it was a good idea in theory.



IRN crushed the rest of the night away with some Sleep-y metal molasses.  It's well worth checking their "sludge sewer drone" out on Bandcamp. Here's some hairy action with guitarist Ken and bassist/growler Jeff.



Headbanging action!



Close-up action!



Sludgy action!



Will hits!



Extra Ken!



Barefoot action!



And so on!



Great sets from all concerned, and a good crowd too.

Westway to Centretown

Up next on our slate of punk rock covers: The Clash! As portrayed by various members of The Mudplots and suchlike. Here they all are in their be-quiffed glory!

Phoney Beatlemaniacs? Possibly!



They want a riot - a riot of their own.



Well-suspended drumming action!



Rhythm section action!



Strumming action!



The crowd goes wild!



A less-flashy version of the improper Topper.



Brand new Cadillaaaaaaac!



Thomas goes down!



The end!



The MudPlots will be playing all the big festivals: Finish What You Started at Mavericks Aug. 20, Slave To The Semen Fest at 279 Flora a week later, The O-Town Hoedown Sept. 29 and Halloween Horror back at the Legion on Oct. 28.

• Show reminder: Whale Tooth, Spirit of the West and Paper Lions perform at the Ottawa Dragonboat Festival; Feverfest also brings a too-many-to-mention slate to the Clocktower and Irene's (you'll find Silver Creek and The Fiftymen at the latter). Diemonds, Black Stone Hearts and Eagleson bring the sleaze-rock to Ritual; Astral Gunk, Plaster Babies and Swollen Eyes lurk in the basement at 443 Kent; Thought Project, Grand Theft Ottawa and Celery Troff roll into the Avant Garde; you can catch Tony D at the Rainbow; the Elmdale hosts Claude Munson and the Storm Outside, Stillnative and Heather Sita Black.