LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (Tym Morrison), The Tea Party Concert Preview, And New Videos!!

As promised, here's those mid-week concert previews on this Monday morning, but to go along with them, I have some videos to share from a recent metal concert. Now, here's what you should know, starting with SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS!!

Local hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison will return to Mark's Breakfast Plus at the Market Mall for the first time this year with special matinee concerts TODAY, TOMORROW, and WEDNESDAY! Apologies for the short notice, these shows were only announced via their Facebook event page on Friday. A frequent venue for Tym Morrison's acoustic solo gigs since Mark's opened in 2017, Tym is known for typically playing at this west end diner on early weekday bookings, but these will actually be his first public shows there since last June. I'm surprised he didn't play there more often when Gliss was relocating, but it's great to see Tym back at a familiar locale TODAY, TOMORROW, and WEDNESDAY, even on late notice! As usual for his Mark' Breakfast Plus gigs, expect these to have early 4:00 PM start times with no announced cover charges or age limits, but mind the locale. See above for more details, and here's Tym live a few years back!



Next up, here's a preview of a huge concert with lots of advance notice, as Juno nominated Windsor hard/world rock trio The Tea Party will return to Sault Ste. Marie THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT at The Machine Shop! Following their successful free concert at The Roberta Bondar Pavilion last July, the band behind such hits as "Psychopomp" & "The Messenger" are back for another show full of hard rocking songs from their long career, including their new single "Black River", and hopefully there's a strong turnout for Jeff, Stuart, and Jeff's return to the Soo on Wednesday! Joining The Tea Party as openers (though only quietly acknowledged in local advertising) are Winnipeg southern rock quintet The Proud Sons, whose country-inflected original sound will prove an interesting contrast on Wednesday, but they have the talent and musicianship to go around nicely! Presented by Cabin Media, this is unfortunately not a free and all ages concert like last year, with tickets running for $40, but they are still available!

You can buy tickets at this link and presumably in-person/at the door, attendees must be 19 or older, and a 7:30 PM start time is advertised. After a 19 year wait for The Tea Party to rock Sault Ste. Marie ended last summer, it's great to see them back so soon, and hopefully they deliver another skilled and fan-friendly set on Wednesday! Stay tuned for updates and hopefully some local news coverage, and here's The Tea Party in the Soo last year!



We'll close today with some new concert videos shot by the ever-generous Christopher Paci (who also filmed the above Tea Party video), as he was in attendance for Saturday night's OZbourne concert at The Canadian Nightclub, filming 11 videos that night for his YouTube channel. Kudos to Chris as usual, he goes above and beyond when he's at a show regarding filming the bands! Regarding the headliners, Chris filmed the Winnipeg-based Ozzy Osbourne tribute band covering Black Sabbath's "War Pigs", "Paranoid", "N.I.B.", and (part of) the song "Black Sabbath", plus five of Ozzy's own solo songs, namely "Bark At The Moon", "Flying High Again", "Crazy Train", "I Don't Know", and as embedded below, "No More Tears." Generally, OZbourne deliver the goods on these videos for Ozzy fans in music and presentation, and Chris got a nice close view of the band too, so fans should enjoy these clips! Give them a look above & below!



Lastly, Chris also filmed two videos of opening blues rock cover trio The Paul DellaVedova Band on Saturday, and it's clear that Paul & company are fans of Paul Rodgers & Simon Kirke, as their filmed covers are of Bad Company's "Rock & Roll Fantasy" and, as embedded below, Free's "All Right Now." Nice to see the guys break out some hard rock classics for the occasion, and while Chris wasn't as close to the stage as he would get with OZbourne, you get some good angles on these solid covers! No, I don't know if the stage setup with the speakers behind metal barriers on the floor is permanent or just for this concert. Give Paul's videos a look as well!



That's all for today, but stay tuned for this month's YouTube Channel Profile next! Thanks everyone!

LOCAL CONCERT ALERT (Pop Evil), Tym Morrison Concert Previews, And New Videos!!

A new work week is upon us, so here's a new news post for your Monday afternoon! Today, we have some new YouTube video discoveries from a pair of inactive notable groups, special previews for some upcoming matinee concerts, and first, here's a huge LOCAL CONCERT ALERT for early next year!

Muskegon hard rock quintet Pop Evil will return to The Dreammaker's Theater at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino for their (at least) fifth live appearance here on Wednesday, February 14th! After previously playing this venue in 2010, 2013, and last February (plus The Satisfied Frog in the 2000s), this fan favourite band will return in support of their upcoming self-titled CD, and with rock radio hits like "Footsteps", "Deal With The Devil", and their newest "Waking Lions", you know you'll hear lots of familiar songs on this special Valentine's Day concert to kick off their Music Over Words Tour! Support bands will include Las Vegas/Toronto "fashion-art rock" trio Palaye Royale (not "Palace"), whose indie-tinged, up-tempo brand of rock should get a good reception in February, while San Francisco post-hardcore trio Black Map will open the night with their own high impact brand of alt-metal, so don't be late for their first regional appearances either! As first announced on Rock 101 this morning (and confirmed on their Facebook page), this is the first concert of 2018 from Allstar Promotions.

Tickets for this all ages show at 7:00 PM go on sale this Friday for $25 each at the in-person box office, online at this link, or via 1-800-KEWADIN, though stay tuned to pertinent links in case there's any VIP passes or tiered ticket deals. Kudos to Allstar Promotions for bringing Pop Evil back less than a year after their last show here, and they should deliver another fun night of hard rock action on Valentine's Day, so stay tuned for continued updates!

Next up, here's a special preview for a three-nighter of matinee concerts from local hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison, who plays at Mark's Breakfast Plus at the Market Mall TONIGHT, TOMORROW, and WEDNESDAY! Similar in scope and timing to his weekly Gliss shows (continuing Thursday-Saturday), these three shows were mean that Tym is playing an acoustic restaurant matinee gig for six straight evenings, kicking off at this west end venue before heading downtown on Thursday, so if you like his past early-week shows at the breakfast-centric restaraunt, here you go! Notably, Wednesday's show will be Tym's fourth straight at Mark's, though if he's playing there weekly now, it hasn't been firmly stated publically. Tym's three Mark's shows this week are at 6:00 PM with no announced cover charges or age limits, but remember that this is a restaurant. Visit the official Facebook event page for more details, and here's Tym live!



Closing today with some new videos, we'll start with some surprise new videos from inactive local Celtic punk quartet Dustin Jones & The Rising Tide's show at the Tracks Pub in Olds, Alberta back in June 2013! YouTube user Casselman Music uploaded 8 videos from this show (plus two of openers Frank Deresti & The Lake Effect) in July as part of a spree of new postings from older concerts in Alberta, so kudos to him for finally putting these online! Coming from The Tide's first tour run out west, these videos all feature Dustin and the Jaaskelainens alongside guest drummer Andrew McMullen (filling in for his Fairmounts/Merves bandmate Mikey Hawdon on this tour), while Frank Deresti also sits in with the guys as a guest banjo player in this footage. The videos include The Rising Tide and guests playing "Tick, Tick, Tock", "My Summer", "Half My Life", "Until We Drop", "Killtop Motel", "Gypsy Wagons", "Molly Malloy", and as embedded below, their eponymous song "Rising Tide", preceded by an intro rendition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525".

These are some of the best videos that I've seen of Dustin and company, with nice smooth video quality and good sound, and the guys are on point from their best older concerts! Frank and Andrew fit in fine too, and these are definitely worth checking out for fans who weren't able to see them on tour four and a half years back! Give these a look above & below!



Lastly, here's some new videos from defunct local alternative/hard rock trio The Din's "Suburban Sendoff" concert at LopLops Lounge last month! These come from Christopher Paci's excellent YouTube channel once again, as finally uploaded yesterday, and while he didn't get anything from openers Bizotic, kudos to him for getting a couple of clips of The Din's last set! Chris filmed them playing their songs "Potato (Should've Known Better)" and, as embedded below, their cover of Haggith's "75" near the end of their set. The angle is pretty jittery here, and fans heads can get in the way, but this was a big show in multiple ways, and it shows that there was a positive turnout and reception! The guys sounded good here, and while it's still a shame to know that this was their farewell, give these videos a watch to relive everything!



That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes as they come in to the site! Thanks everyone!

LOCAL CONCERT ALERT (The Noochin' Lanterns & Tym Morrison) & This Weekend's Concert Previews!!

If you're a long-time follower of the Sault Metal Scene, you'll know that our weekend concert previews usually start to go online on Thursdays. That said, with a slow post-Halloween news stretch and two SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS for TONIGHT connected to an artist already playing this weekend, I will make an exception and post our weekend concert previews on a Wednesday. I don't have a post lined up for tomorrow anyway, so hopefully this will work out this week! That all said, there's some intriguing concerts going down through Saturday, so here's what you should know!

Prolific local hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison will once again play a special Wednesday night matinee concert at Mark's Breakfast Plus TONIGHT, in addition to his ongoing matinee gigs at Gliss Steak & Seafood TOMORROW, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY! Apologies for the short notice on the Mark's show, it was only announced via it's Facebook page on Sunday, with Tym indicating on his personal Facebook page that he'd only just learned about the booking. TONIGHT'S return to the Market Mall restaurant will "mark" the third in an at least four week run of Wednesday evening shows there, with previously announced matinees coming there next Monday through Wednesday as well. I have no idea yet if Tym is playing every Wednesday (or beyond?!) at Mark's or if this is just a good fall run, but keep TONIGHT'S show in mind for acoustic hard rock cover action, not to mention his regular shows at The Quality Inn's house restaurant tomorrow through Saturday!

As usual for Tym's restaurant matinee concerts, all four of these shows (be they at Mark's TONIGHT or Gliss through Saturday) are 6:00 PM engagements with no announced cover charges or age limits, but mind the locale, these aren't your typical nightclub venues. Visit the official Facebook event pages linked here and above for more details, and here's Tym live!



Next up, here's one more surprise late notice concert taking place TONIGHT, as local rap/metal project The Apocalypse Afterparty and sister pop/hard rock quartet The Noochin' Lanterns will join forces for a show TONIGHT at The Speak Easy for what they're calling "Local Band Wednesday"! Apologies again for the short notice, this show was only announced yesterday via it's Facebook event page, and only came to our attention today. After months of these two bands only surfacing on stage for unannounced and intentionally short notice "pop-up shows", this at least has slightly more advance notice and advertising! In any event, it's nice to see them both back at it, so if you want to see how their current lineups sound, including new Noochin' Lanterns keyboardist Sarah Jackson, then head to Algoma University's campus bar TONIGHT! The two bands will be opening for an act known as The Oldest Soul, and while I cannot 100% confirm this is still the case, this was the name given to a prior acoustic solo project from Noochin' Lanterns frontman Paul Stanghetta. If so, this will be interesting to hear, and Paul has unplugged chops!

Also, this will be the first advertised show from these bands since the recent marriage of Paul and Noochin' Lanterns drummer Amanda Stanghetta (née Brown), so congratulations to the newly wedded couple! An early 8:00 PM start time is in effect for this presumably 19+ concert, though Algoma University students under 19 may be able to get in with student ID, and there is no advertised cover charge. Check the above links for more details, apologies again for the short notice, and here's The Noochin' Lanterns live!

We'll move to previously announced concerts next with a brief detour to the Eastern Upper Peninsula, as Sault Michigan classic/hard rock cover quartet Highway 63 are advertised to return to The Northern Pines Lounge at the Kewadin Shores Casino in St. Ignace THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY NIGHT! These shows will mark Highway 63's first announced gigs since rocking The American Legion in the Soo on Saturday, October 28th for their annual Halloween bash, the fourth straight featuring Highway 63 as musical entertainment. Profuse apologies for missing that show for coverage on the site, it was only announced by the band on their Facebook page that same morning, let alone on a day when we didn't have a news post scheduled. We'd have covered it on here had it we known with even a day's more notice, but hopefully it was a great time once again! As for this weekend's shows, these will be Highway 63's first at the Northern Pines Lounge in over a month, with only one more weekend scheduled there in 2017 after Saturday night.

Note that Kewadin's entertainment page does not list this weekend's concerts, but Highway 63 confirmed them on their Facebook page back in January. Expect 9:00 PM start times for this weekend's shows, which are both 21+ events with no announced cover charge. Check the above links for more details, and here's Highway 63 live!



Finally, we'll head to The Rockstar Bar for one more show, where local classic/hard rock cover quartet The 3 Day Millionaires will play a special one-night-only concert THIS SATURDAY NIGHT themselves! Three weeks removed from their last show here, this talented veteran band will provide the musical entertainment for a fundraiser event in honour of the Community First Wild hockey team, who compete in the Soo Pee Wee Hockey League's Atom Major A division. While not a sort of fundraiser that often crosses our radar, it's always important to support young hockey players, so hopefully the Wild get a solid boost from this event on Saturday! Also, note that this is The Millionaires' only scheduled concert before Toystock in 2 and a half weeks, so if you're up for their hard rocking covers, you know where to be this weekend! A special $10 cover charge is in effect for this fundraiser, which has doors opening at 9:00 PM, and I expect this will be 19+. Check the official Facebook event page for more details, and here's The 3 Day Millionaires live!



As for Saturday night's Doors & Fours concert that was originally in this post, I have bumped it to our next news post (likely coming Friday) due to the late notice Speak Easy concert, in order to spread things out and not overstuff this post. It will be back, I promise! That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news in the coming days! Thanks everyone!