Pour it on

As December was kicking off I clopmed over to Pourboy for the first time. The Somerset St. bar has an upstairs room that hosts shows, often associated with the Sitting On The Outside crowd. This quadruple bill featured a couple of new local acts, Sarin Gas and Magic Mommy, and a pair of visitors, Montreal latinx combo Estorbo and Toronto's Scorpio Rising. Sarin Gas was up first, featuring a slew of familiar faces. Here's the whole lot!



Gripping action with Audrey!



Percussive action with Brenda!



Bass action with Justin!



More Audrey and Felix!



Next up Magic Mommy, which once again has Felix on guitar, plus Sof from Doxx, and Aaron from Chloroform, plus Lix on guitar and Elo on bass. Here's some motherly action!



Aaron hits!



The whole lot!



Moshing action!



And so on!



Estorbo played a crunchy set of Spanish streetpunk. Here's singer Claudia, guitarist Andres, drummer Mauricio and bassist Carlos!



Rhythm section action!



Fisheye action!



Claudia works the crowd!



Guitar and elbow action!



Finally, Scorpio Rising ripped it up. Here's singer Arina, guitarist Harold, bassist Bee and part of drummer Dexter's arm!



The rest of Dexter!



Bendy action!



Arina works the floor!



More Arina and Harold!



Upstanding action!



And so on!



Back to the floor!



Extra Harold!



Bonus Bee!



All good stuff.

Think!

On March 4 I toddled over to Black Squirrel Books to check out some punk rock action from Philadelphia's Dark Thoughts; they were joined by local acts Empty Nesters and Liquid Thoughts, a newish quartet featuring Felix from Toxic Thoughts (among others) and Brittany and Kieran from Doxx (among others).



Guitar action with Scott (also of Born Wrong and others)!



Felix sings!



Kieran hits!



Liquid action!



Rhythm action!



Next up, Empty Nesters, with their Sonic Youth-goes-shoegaze squall.



Eric sings!



Rhythm section action with Philip and Robert!



More Robert!



Guitar action!



Finally, Dark Thought, who made me think a bit of Marked Men and Radioactivity. Here's Jim, Daniel and Amy!



Jim sings!



Rhythm section action with Daniel and Amy!



Daniel hits!



Extra Jim!



Extra Amy!



The whole lot!



Good stuff all around.

Eight is enough, Part I

Last week I bused over to Ottawa South for a CHUO to check out an eight-band bill spread between Black Squirrel Books and House of Targ, assembled by Ottawa Showbox, CHUO 89.1 FM and Pandamonium Productions. I missed most of Bug Bites' set since I was stuffing my face with perogies. They played at Black Squirrel Books and feature folks from Torpor and Toxic Thoughts. I only managed to shoot three photos, so here's Shayla and Felix!



And here's the same photo, more or less, with a different focal point.



Percussive action with Pat!



On to Prospect Nelson, a Franco-Ontarian combo from Hawkesbury. Here's singer and guitarist Wes!



J.R. hits!



Prospective action with Wes and Frankybone!



More Wes!



Extra J.R.!



Bonus Frankybone!



A shouty bit!



Even more Frankybone!



Rhythm section action!



Nelsonian action!



J.R. sings!



Singalong action!



Back upstairs to Black Squirrel Books and a hot set from London's Isolation Party! Here's bassist Preston!



Guitar action with Rob!



Jake hits!



Vocal action!



Flashy action!



More Preston!



The whole lot!



More Jake!



Crowded action!



Montreal's Lost Love performed at House of Targ. They're a fun live crew. Here's Guilhem on bass!



Guitar action with David!



Percussive action with Sebastian, filling in on this trip.



Singalong action!



Olivier lunges!



Extra Sebastian!



Closeup action!



Bonus Guilhem!



Up next, Part II!