Early to bed

Last week I went over to Pressed for some bedroom pop and psych; in addition to Ottawa's own Pipahauntas, mysterious and intertwined combos Beds and Sunshine & The Blue Moon delivered some early-T. Rex meets Pavement action. S&BM were up first. Apart from their point of origin - Thunder Bay - I don't know much about them. The core of the band is vocalist Sunshine; Christopher Sandes plays bass (and also plays in Beds), while Andrew Simpson played both guitar and rums on their demos.



Guitar action!



Shadowy action, courtesy of Pressed's new stage lighting - by which I mean a table lamp on the floor in front of the stage.



Singalong action!



Percussive action!



More keyboards!



Microphone-sharing action!



Former bassist Bucky (also in Beds) helped out on the final tune.



On to Beds, and a couple of familiar faces.



The rest of Beds' heads.



Bucky sings!



Gripping action!



Singalong action!



More guitar!



Extra Bucky!



Percussive action!



Sleepy action!



And of course the traitional drummer photo taken through the entryway window.



There was some instrument-switching.



Even more singalong action!



I've seen Pipahauntas quite a bit in the last year; Sam's solo side is really good. However, it seems it was time for the next step - getting some honest-to-goodness musicians to back her up live. Adam Saikaley, Gary from Bondar, and Fucked Corpse member/Uncle Phil sideman/oddball karaoke champ Patric are the raw recruits.



Here's Adam. It was definitely getting too dark for flashless photography.



There you go then.



Candlelit action!



Keyboard action with Patric!



The end!



A fine sort-of debut.

What's up, Pussycat?

Some shows you just know you have to attend; granted I missed a lot of that kind of those shows in the past year, but since I don't have to get up early now I can go and check out the Inimitable Quintron and Miss Pussycat last week. Opening was local lo-fi champ and 3-D monster maker Uncle Phil. He's released a bunch of recordings via Bandcamp, but I believe this is the first time he's hit the stage.

Phil sings!



The firends of Phil included Keltie from Bonnie Doon.



Also a couple of incognito pals (though we all know that's Brad from Year Zero making noise at left).



Uncle action!



The notorious Carruthers (a.k.a. Patric) from Fucked Corpse was also on hand.



It's all about the foulards with this crowd.



Brad frets!



Phil adjusts.



Bass action!



On to Quintron (Mr. Quintron to you lot) and Miss Pussycat, who began their set with some bakery-oriented puppetry.



Just add one cup of ultraviolet spectrum.



Looks a bit like my last culinary attempt.



After some cake-on-cake violence and a giant tongue, the dynamic duo took the stage!



Organ action! I might add this is the first show at House of Targ I've been to where there were no people playing any of the games while the performance was going on.



Shakin' action!



Singalong action!



Extra Pussycat!



Shirtless action!



The famous Drum Buddy!



Light-activated action!



Most entertaining!

High-minded

Thursday night I headed over to Pressed for an ill-considered mochiatto (it tasted great, but kept me up all night) and some equally tasty psychedelica. The evening's headliner was Andy Boay, one half of Tonstartssbandht. Also on deck were Blake Hargreaves and Patric.

You may recall Patric from his stint in Fucked Corpse. I'm not sure what you'd call his opening set ... outsider karaoke? He sang along to records of odd easy-listening and synth renditions of hits by The Rolling Stones and Creedence Clearwater Revival, among others. Not shown: patent leather shoes.


Patric at Pressed, April 4, 2013

The ghostly presence version!


Patric at Pressed, April 4, 2013

On to Blake Hargreaves, whose appeared on the blog before as half of Thames and Caymans. Solo he reminded me a lot of guitar great Richard Youngs.


Blake Hargreaves at Pressed, April 4, 2013

Spectral action!


Blake Hargreaves at Pressed, April 4, 2013

Finally Boay put on a super set of  space guitar and reverbed voice. He also brought his own mini-psychedelic stageshow. Here he is, sporting a T-shirt from another of Blake's band's, Dreamcatcher.


Andy Boay at Pressed, April 4, 2013

And so on!


Andy Boay at Pressed, April 4, 2013

A very entertaining night.