It was keyboard night at the Slice, Feb. 1. While I missed local band Shipbreaker, I caught part of the set of Greyscreen, or Kevin Stebner. According to his Myspace page, he creates soundtrack to video games that never existed, using, among other things, a Game Boy. In which case he definitely succeeded. He stood hunched over a table full of video game and computer hardware emitting an array of bleeps, bloops and computerized sounds and effects, which had the good sized crowd cheering. He cut his set a little short after saying he couldn’t get some of it to work.
Lethbridge band Open Channels closed off the night with a more straight ahead set of garage rock/ punk music.
Jane Edmundson’s keyboards weren’t as loud as usual, but this time could have been punched up just a touch. But the band shone They played a very tight and entertaining set of original music.