Trees and bees

Back in May I was at Pressed to watch Rob Snasdell-Taylor of King Kung fame return to the stage (incidentally, King Kung, The Four Frames and Double Pumpers will be at the House of Targ Sept. 27 for some en masse reunionizing). His performance was sandwiched between sets by Trees of North America (their first) and Dead Bees. Unfortunately, I goofed the night before, drained my camera battery and had to fall back on my iPhone. Fortunately, The Deads Bees and Trees of North America hit the stage again this Thursday at the House of Targ, this time with Saint Clare taking the centre slot. Here's Christine Chesser and Darrel Angus, with Patrick Shanks on bass.



Scott Terry - another King Kung vet - shows the black emtal love.



The whole lot!



Rhythm section action!



More Darrel!



Christine sings!



Darrel sings!



The end!



Saint Clare rocked the place with their brass-backed garage pop.



Nick DiSaverio slides.



Matthew sings!



Rhythm section action with Ryan Shannon and Daniel DeVries!



Casey Comeau handles the keys.



Morgan Grant rocks the tenor sax.



Richard Jeffries frets.



More Matthew!



Saintly action!



Jumping about!



More guitar!



And so on!



Richard sings!



Fretful action!



Grimacing action!



The audience thinned a bit by the time The Dead Bees hit the stage, but as before they put on a great show, really tuneful stuff from these guys as always. Here's Chris!



Here's another Chris.



Kosta sings!



Extra Chris!



Bass action!



More Kosta!



And so on!



Unfortunately I had to split early, but what I saw was top notch.

Punk and popular

Yet another long-overdue posting, once again from The House of Targ. School Damage returned to Ottawa (last time I saw them was at Cafe Luneta), and once again played with Neck on the bill. Also on hand were the oft-seen Bonnie Doon and Slim & Popular. Here's some serious bass-playing from Larry.



Last time I saw S&P was late last year at a Centretown Recording Alliance shindig at Gabba Hey.



Dave hits!



Extra Larry! His hot sauce company also uses the House of Targ facilities to manufacture.



Dave sings!



Staring action!



And so on!



Singalong action!



The whole lot!



Bonnie Doon were up next. Their garb of choice: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.



Madison strums!



Leslie sings!



Keltie hits!



Sara goes green!



More Keltie!



Half-shell action!



Singalong action!



Sara sings!



Leslie shouts!



More singalong action!



Neck were up next, rocking the Pac-Man look in their trademark matching shirts.



Grimacing action!



Johnny sings!



More Jeff!



Kevin sings! He's also one of the House of Targ's co-owners.



The whole lot!



Bonus Birger!



Jeff refreshes!



Johnny stances!



School damage rounded off the night with some punk rock rama-lama. Here's guitarist Brad and drummer Curtis.



And bassist Jon in a rare moment when he's not jumping about.



Brad sings!



Hair-shaking action!



Curtis hits!



Feedback and hair!



The whole lot!



Singalong action!




A good, full night's out.