Nu Music Nite on Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Outstanding night at the Horseshoe Tavern.

Join me for a trip back in time to this week's Tuesday nite!

We begin our journey into Nu Music Nite with a cool piano/drums duo, The Lovely Killbots, whose sound can get really jazzified:



The night moves on and Clothes Make The Man take stage to deliver approachable, gritty rock worthy of getting up and dancing to:



Ross and Ryan from Clothes Make The Man graciously join us in the basement for a jovial chat that includes some fightin' words from Ross for David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears!



We move back upstairs for a very tight, loud and flamboyant performance care of Winnipeg's Inward Eye:



Inward Eye is kind enough to talk to us downstairs, where we learn about these three young brothers, and some of their experiences being signed to a Sony label, such as withstanding input like, "Can you make it coooola"?!



The night is capped off by Guelph's Evil Genius. With big, soulful vocals and a tight blues rock style, this young band has a sound that reverberates beyond their years:



A great end to a great night. Thanks to all the bands that hauled their gear out on that cold Tuesday night to play their hearts out!

See you next time at the 'Shoe!

Band websites:

Lovely Killbots
Clothes Make The Man
Inward Eye
Evil Genius

Cheers,

Gary

Looking forward to posting tomorrow morning

Tuesday yielded some great, toe-tapping performance clips and also informative interviews with Clothes Make The Man and Inward Eye. Check in usual time, the "Friday morning after" (tomorrow morning) for it all!

Warm up at the Horseshoe!

Being in an emerging band is partly about working without pay, week in and week out, with a blissful, blind optimism. The optimism wanes a teeny bit tho when you gotta play to an empty house because the weather is bad, and yet you managed to haul all sorts of heavy shit down in that same weather and still put a smile on your face!

On the other hand, all we need to haul down tonight are our witty bitty cell phones, that we can use to text our friends and tell them how cool the performances are :)

Lovely Killbots at 9:10pm — piano and drums duo, wow!
Clothes Make The Man at 10:00pm — "hook heavy 90's rock"
Inward Eye at 10:50pm — cf. "Clash", "The Who"? Let's see for ourselves!
Evil Genius at 11:40pm — "riff-heavy rock" from Guelph

So, see you tonight at the 'Shoe! I'll be there! Will you, too?

Check in on Friday to take in the sights and stories.

Gary