Music Beat
I couldn’t pass up a chance to see a full band version of
local folk/rock act the Necessities, who had a full house moving at
Henotic, April 9. They played a typically tight set full of some pretty intricate musical parts.
Devin Gergel played about a dozen instruments and singer/guitarist Steven Foord sounded uncannily like Rob Thomas.They work well together, trading vocals and adding harmonies. Having a drummer and Matt Robinson on bass fills out their sound really well.
—By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat editor
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There was a lot of really impressive and enjoyable music this past week,however, London, Ontario based Dirty Love band blew pretty much everybody away with really cool and energetic blues/rock/ R and B sound at the Slice, Saturday.
while saxophonist Sean Thomson writhed and blew a crazy saxophone line which was drowned out by the rest of the band.
ander at the Slice, who played my radio show earlier that night.
But Ottawa’s rockabilly/ garage rock band Gunsmoke were second with a lot of fleet fingered Gretsch picking and machine gun fast drumming which sounded like Duane Eddy meeting the Cramps in a dark alley. The stand up bass player was totally digging in on his big white bass and the band played unbelievably tight. And before I knew it, their set was over.
The crowd stayed on for Alley Cat Blues, a local band who are neither a blues band nor have anything to do with alley cats. However they did prove themselves to be an adept garage/pop punk band with plenty of razor sharp power chords, some claw sharp guitar solos whoa whoa whoah shout along choruses and a dark sense of humour as they were singing about a variety of things like the Grim Reaper, goalies and a ghost at a party.
