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.
I arrived in the middle of a frenzied piano and organ solo from Kent Merkley, while saxophonist Sean Thomson writhed and blew a crazy saxophone line which was drowned out by the rest of the band.
One of many highlights was “Love For Sale,” which though it wasn’t  the Talking Heads song,  did show off a strong Talking Heads influence, which  carried on throughout the sets especially in lead singer/ guitarist Dennis Habel’s voice. He played  some real tasteful blues solos alternating between touching and face melting.
What got me was a piano powered cover of Neil Young’s Needle and the Damage Done” which   bent my mind right around as it sounded like  Pink Floyd was covering it.
They played a slower blues number off their new CD called  “Dirty Man” which lead to the band to segue into a couple bars of “Hey Jude” and included a heart-wrenching harp solo played by Thomson who sat down in the midst of crowd to play it where he was joined by Habel.
They started their last  set of the night with a little bit of funk and a lot of material from their new CD “Generation Sex” which had a variety of sounds from upbeat rock, slower R and B and a touch of ’80s new wave with more Talking Heads influence. Fantastic.