The Geomatic Attic plut on their last show of a busy year — The Good Lovelies debut Lethbridge performance, not including last year’s Vinyl Café appearance.
But local singer/ songwriter Karen Romanchuk and lead guitarist Pete Watson were up first with a sneak peak preview of Romancuk’s new CD, which is due out in January.
She played a lot of songs which were new to me and most of the packed Attic, all in the heartfelt country/ folk milieu.
Some of the highlights were my favourite, which I had heard before, “Go On Now Go,” and the title track of the new CD “ 15 Angels,” which is an homage to the fallen angels of music like Elvis, Jim Morrison and John Coltrane.
A song about differences between couples appealed to a lot of the audience as well.
The aptly named Good Lovelies’ “Christmas show,” didn’t start out as such.
The Juno Award winners cracked jokes and grinned ear-to-ear and introduced the receptive audience to music from their new CD due out in February.
Frontwoman Kerri Ough talked about how they all quit their day jobs to pursue music and how their parents supported the, then played Old Man Luedecke’s “I Quit My Job.”
Ough also spoke of going to the Junos and not expecting to win, then going up on stage to accept the award with a mouth full of cake.
Throughout they traded instruments and lead vocal duties and joked with their bassist for this tour, Ben Whiteley.
They did play a couple Christmas songs including a hot version of “Santa Baby,” and Sue Passmore introduced a sweet a cappella version of “Chipmunk Christmas,” by saying she had reservations about doing the song, but contacted the “Chipmunks,” who okayed it as long as it didn’t sound like the Chipmunks.
“That was my concern about it too,” she laughed.
