All you can eat

At the tail end of last week I headed over to the House of Targ for the second night of Surf & Turf 2018. Although it was the "Turf" night, things were still pretty heavy on the surf side, with sets from The Atomic Beliveaus and The Inquisitors. Still, Zorton & The Cannibals were on hand for some garage sounds. Here's Zach!



Percussive action with Ian!



Keyboard action with Megan!



And so on!



Extra Zach!



Bass action with Nick!



Ian sings!



Cannibalistic action!



Rhythm section action!



Wildkat action!



More Megan!



On to The Atomic Beliveaus, with some guitar action from Joe!



Bass action with Ian!



Ted hits!



Rui sings!


Rhythm section action!



Extra Rui!



More Joe!



Atomic action!



The whole lot!



Singalong action!



Between sets, Classy Craig Daniels (Tijuana Bibles, Leather Uppers) spun some tunes.



And here's some introduction action from garage-rocker-about-town Patrick Shanks!



The Inquisitors brought things to a close.



Keyboard action with Raf!



Guitar action with Trevor!



Bass action with Dave!



More guitar with Ryan!



Percussive action with Kyle!



Inquisitive action!



More keyboard!



A fun night.

Back to the garage

It might seem that a lot of shows I go to see at the House of Targ are entirely guitar-free, but every once in a while  pine for the old six-string and go to check out some garage rockers. Le Deuxluxes have been making a bit of a splash on the Montreal music scene with their two-man blues-garage sound, Muck & The Mires were primed to make a return visit to Targ, so Patrick Shanker tipped them off and opened things up (along with Chris and Jon, both of too many bands to mention). Here's Patrick, working the dots.



Rhythm section action!



Jon sings!



Chris sings!



Patrick sings!



More singalong action!



And so on!



On to Muck & The Mires! This was the third time I've seen them, and they're stucking to their guns in the traditional Boston garage that runs froms The Remains to The Lyres to the present day. Here's Muck and Jesse!



Bass action with John Quincy!



Peter sings!



Singalong action!



Smiley action with Jesse!



Guitar action!



The whole lot!



And so on!



Peter sings one!



I can't say much about the musical history of Etienne Barry and Anna Frances Meyer - the deux in Les Deuxluxes, but I will say they sound a bit like Mark Sultan covering Jon Spencer (or vice-versa). They have a new album, Springtime Devil, out Sept. 15. Here's Anna-Frances!



Guitar-and-drum action with Etienne!



The whole lot!



Leopard-print action!



More Etienne and Anna Frances!



Unfortunately at that point my camera battery conked out, so I didn't get nearly the number of Deuxluxes photos I wanted; other than that, it was a great night.