Saturday, Nov. 17 was probably the most eclectic night of music I’ve heard in a long time.
There were three massively different shows at the Slice beginning with a surprisingly laid back set from Lethbridge progressive rock trio Lustre Creame, they played a lot of notes, featured some very cool guitar playing and bass tapping, backed by unstoppable drums. They played some of their more complex songs including “Battle Metal” and featured a couple brand new songs featuring some pretty wicked playing.
For something completely different, Moncton punk band the Motorleague played a balls to the wall, no holds barred, all too brief set of original intense punk and rock music in what had to be close to one of the best rock shows of the year as far as unbridled fury and energy went.
They played a lot of catchy riffs and even had some very cool vocal harmonies in an ear-blisteringly loud and blindingly fast set which sounded like a blend of fellow Maritimers, the Monoxides and the Offspring.
They played pretty much all of their CD “Black Noise,” and many others, finishing up in about 45 minutes max.
For the complete counterpoint to that, popular Lethbridge band the Turncoats, featuring Andrew Scott on vocals and guitar, Paul Holden on bass and Kyle Harmon on drums plus Arlen Wutch's hot country licks fused country with jazz and a lot of weirdness for their set, which included Scott singing through a megaphone.
But they had a good portion of the audience dancing in front of the stage.
They will be back at the Slice for New Year’s Eve.
