It is ironic when a fire hall gets set on fire almost literally as it did Friday,  Aug. 28 thanks to an incendiary show at Henotic with the Phantom Creeps and Calgary rockabilly trio the Hardtails on the main level, as well as  a farewell party for Jeremy Floyd Cowpar with the Void and Smoke Stack Jacks upstairs in the GCBC  Lounge.
 I was jumping between gigs upstairs, downstairs and across town at the Slice for Twilight Hotel and Scott Nolan, as per usual, but had almost perfect timing as I caught most of Scott Nolan’s  set of rough edged acoustic blues, coupled with harmonica and a little help from his friends in Twilight Hotel — Dave Quanbury and Brandy Zdan who lent their voices and slide guitar to the last couple songs of his set. Nolan returned the favour later on, lending his hand on drums  during  Twilight Hotel’s set along with Tyler Bird who contributed some stand up bass.

 Nolan’s set ended in time to catch a tight and energetic CD release party set from local psychobilly  trio  the Phantom Creeps. More notably I caught a  wickedly energetic set by Calgary trio the Hardtails, who are my new favourite band because of tight set of old school rockabilly mixed with classic punk which included a cover of the obscure Ramones  song “You’re Going to Kill that Girl,”  done rockabilly style. And you have to love a rockabilly version of Nazareth’s  “Bad, Bad Boy.”
 And the fire?  During one of  their songs near the end of their set included not only drummer, “the Infamous” Slim Skinner, lighting his cymbal on fire, but energetic upright bassist “Late Night” Mike  McCafferty used the cymbal to set his bass head on fire. All the while singer/ Gretsch wielding heavily tattooed  singer  Rocky O’ Reilly sang about alcohol, women and drugs in a  strong tenor voice which even suggested hints of Elvis mixed with some hard core blues.
 It was a good time enjoyed by an enthusiastic crowd.