CKXU 88.3 F.M rocked it hippie style with a ’60s themed night at the Slice to kick off Lethbridge’s independent radio station’s annual FUNDrive  on Friday, Oct. 30 with a sold out show featuring several local bands reinterpreting ’60s classics.
 Most of the audience was dressed in ’60s hippies garb. I arrived as a new band called Lotion was playing garage  rock versions of girl group songs like “My Boyfriend’s Back.”
 A new band including the Grow Show’s Dan Espelien, called Mint Tea  brought a case of ’60s psychedelia to the Slice by playing some impressively weird  Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd. There was impressively mind-expanding bass playing and some plenty of trippy  delay laden guitar action going on.
But I was impressed as always with  the Record Holder, who featured Nicole Hembroff  on violin and doing a bang up job and vocals  for a variety of Beatles classics including“Taxman” among others. They had the Beatles’ vocal harmonies down and showed some tight musicianship. Last, but not least, Lustre Creme with Tod Robinson on keyboards carried on with some psychedelic progressive rock that had lots of wild guitar playing and more than enough energy which kept the audience rocking, ’60s style.

— by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor