War on XXXmas

Yes, it's Christmas Show time, with the Season's Beating crowd living it up at Irene's, Kalle Mattson and co. performing at Zaphod's and various members of the Fun Boy Club House crowd (that is, members of New Swears, Tropical Dripps, Glorious Moonrockets and Shitty Mike) slipping into their red woolens for a stage-crowding performance as XXXmas, the band that turns Santa into Satan.

Look everyone, gifts!



Kurt from Yips/Tropical Dripps gets a bass from Santa Scrubar.



Kieran sports a bag-beard.



And they're off!



B.J. and Sammy sing!



Shawn shakes it!



Kieran hits!



Fisheye action!



Singalong action!



Hugs!



More B.J.!



Crowd-surfing action!



Metallic action!



Shitty Mike and Sammy ride the crowd!



Singalong action with Nick!



"Let's take things down."



Taking a bow.



Extra Coupe!



A great show for a packed house.

Hits, hells and holes

Things are slowing down a bit as Christmas approaches, but there's still a whack of Christmas shows to go to, and a few other events like Thursday's Freh Hell-Stuck In A Hole- Direct Hit shindig at the Luneta cafe. Fresh Hell made their first appearance on the blog just this Sunday after their appearance at the Centretown Recording Association Xmas show, Stuck In A Hole were playing their last show, and Direct Hit are just touring Canada (their home base is in Milwaukee).

First off, Fresh Hell - who also happened to be a subject of our last non-flashback post.



Cory sings!



A shouty bit!



Another shouty bit!



The whole lot!



Vance hits!



On to Stuck In A Hole and Direct Hit after the jump.