Year disappear

As 2018 vanished into the distance, I went to Black Squirrel Books to see a trio of local acts: Future News, Offers and Mushy Gushy, Ive seen them all in the recent pass, and decided I wanted to see them again, starting with Future News. Here's Adam, waiting for the pre-show banter to end!



Guitar action with Jacob!



Bass action with Kurt (the band was paying as a trio, since regular bassist Jonah wasn't available).



More Jacob!



Extra Adam and Kurt!



Futuristic action!



Extra Adam!



On to the Offers, the new Bytown supergroup featuring members of Average Times, Million Dollar Marxists, and all those bands Davey played with (Fucked Corpse, Quebexico, etc.). Here's the Times' Seiji!



Davey sings!



The whole lot, with Tim on drums!



More Davey!



Extra Tim!



And a bit more Seiji!



Mushy Gushy brought the night to a close with a ripping set. Here's Daniel, Cory, and a bit of Jonathan!



More Daniel!



Pat hits!



Singalong action with Jonathan and Daniel!



More Jonathan!



Guitar action!



The whole lot!



A fine way to end the year.

The single life

On Tuesday I toddled over to House of Targ to check out some Single Mothers (the nice people at Hive Mind PR got me on the guest list), alongside local combos Curl and Mushy Gushy. Curl kicked things off with some shouty bedroom sounds. Here's Brandon!



Man of many bands (Holy Christopher, Celery Troff, etc.) Andrew hits!



Neo-Tokyo action with Brandon!



The whole lot!



Extra Andrew!



Microphone devouring action!



Mushy Gushy were on next; they've been crafting some new tunes for an upcoming release and premiered them for the crowd. Here's Daniel, and Pat (also of Steve Adamyk Band and many more), on drums!



Jonathan sings!



More Pat!



Kneeling action with Cory!



Mushy action!



More Daniel!



Rhythm section action!



Guitar action!



Single Mothers finished the night off with an active set. They've been around awhile and apparently go through band members at a cracking pace. Here's singer Drew, preparing to jump about!



Bass action with Riley!



Rhythm section action with Ross of Life In Vacuum!



Single action with Peter on guitar!



Riley sings!



Extra Drew and Peter!



Bendy Peter action!



More Peter and Ross!



Closeup action!



Most entertaining!

Party for promotion

Last week I popped over to Ottawa South for an album release by Telecomo and a debut performance from Mushy Gushy. I haven't seen either band before, but there were plenty of familiar faces, starting with party rockers Mushy Gushy. Bassist Jonathan fronts Winchester Warm, singer David did time in The Gallop, drummer Kyle backed Kalle Mattson and guitarist Cory is also in Baberaham Lincoln. In fact about the only person on stage I hadn't heard before was DJ Lamb Rabbit, who seems to share my fondness for foreign language covers of popular 1960s tunes.



Guitar action with Cory and Daniel!



Bass action with Jonathan!



Hairy action with Kyle!



Extra Cory!



David sings!



The whole lot!



More David and Jonathan!



Extra Kyle!



Telecomo is another bevy of scene veterans, starting with frontman Adam Saikaley, who's most recently been spotted in Silkken Laumannand the Acorn.



Also in the trio, Bondar's Gary, who has also performed in an electronic duo with Adam and fellow Acorn Pat.



And so on!



Pat hits!



Adam sings!



Rhythm section action with Pat and Gary!



Feedback action!



Hot stuff all around.