The 2010 Christmas season continues to get even more stacked, with another big concert now confirmed for Monday, December 27th! In what is being called "The Nightmare After Christmas", three local bands will hit Foggy Notions for a night full of punk and metal! Your headliners are local horror punk/metal quartet Frightlight, in their first gig since opening for Total Chaos last month! Expect a great set from these local veterans, who'll bring "Fright Night" to their fans over the holidays! Also on the bill are local hardcore metal band WinkStinger, making their first concert appearance since last month's Breaking The Fourth Wall show at The Rosie. These guys always impress, and will be sure to help with the cold northern winter by melting your face with their fast-paced and very heavy original tracks! Opening this concert will be, in their live return, The Scary Uncles! I don't believe they've played a live show since last year, so it's great to see this very talented punk trio back on-stage! Their classic lineup, minus ex-guitarist Matt Sibilo, is intact, and I'm sure they're hoping for a big return on the 27th! This concert will take place at 10:00 PM, with a $3 cover charge and a 19+ age limit. For more details and to check out the announced bands, visit the above links and the Facebook event page! This sounds like a great concert for the holidays, pencil me in to attend! Hope you guys can make it too, and stay tuned for updates if they come in!
Next up, here's a long overdue story I had meant to share for days now that might interest you guys! During recent Google searching for new and undiscovered local bands, I came across the MySpace page for Sault Ste. Marie native Paul Melanson, who now lives and plays music in the Calgary area. He has played guitar in a number of bands like Malediction, Gutwrench, Under The Gun, and Daemon Rage, that I'll likely research more on just in case there's something online to share! But one thing really caught my attention, and it's this: On his "About Me" section, Paul mentions that he recently had a stint with the Calgary bar band Igniter, formerly known as Caveman Morrison. Wait a minute, how does that work? Caveman Morrison are still very much active, what's going on with this "Igniter" band? Well, I came across this band photo of Igniter from April 2009, which features Paul with former Caveman Morrison bassist Corey Day & drummer Greg Sutherland, along with, I assume, frontman "L L Cool Dutch" (anyone know his real identity?) It looks like the remaining Calgary members of Caveman Morrison (minus Dean Duguay) regrouped as Igniter following Tym's return home, and played metal covers at area bars in recent years. They don't appear to currently be active, and they don't have an internet page that I know of, but this is still interesting to note! If I hear more on Igniter or Paul Melanson's various projects, I'll let you guys know!
Thirdly today, the end has came for one fondly remembered local concert venue. This picture shows what was left of The Eastgate Hotel during demolition of the former metal concert spot & hotel, as snapped by SooToday reader Jeff Russon. I believe Algoma Insurance will still be using the property as a parking lot, although things might have changed without me hearing. 11 photos from the demolition have been uploaded onto SooToday at this location. This must be sad for music lovers who remember attending metal shows at "The Gate" way back. Numerous touring and local bands played there over the years, including notables like Helix, Lee Aaron, Kim Mitchell, Slik Toxik, Nazareth, Bret Michaels, and numerous others. I was never old enough to attend concerts there when they still occured, but had I been around during The Eastgate's heyday, I would surely have many of the same emotions as many of you have. In recent years, it's appearance did deteriorate, and some will probably say that it's good to see it gone, but it all depends on who you ask. I thought it would have been nice to turn it into low income housing or something, but hey, things happen for a reason. R.I.P. Eastgate Hotel, I'm sure the memories will live on!Fou
rthly, I'd like to mention five more band removals from our band listings. I continued crawling for bands yesterday that were lacking enough info or material to be worth keeping, or had dead links, and I came up with five more. These are probably our last band cuts until a local band deletes their page knowingly, so you won't have to worry about a paragraph like this again for a while! So these three defunct bands were removed from our band listings because they didn't have sufficient band information, audio/video material, or quality profile design elements to really add much to our band links: Sault Ontario hardcore quintet Orchestra of Wolves, and the Sault Michigan metal bands The Arch Angels of the Apocalypse and Burn the Day. No offense is meant to members or fans, but really, what could we say about these bands? Also, I deleted two other bands due to their links expiring. One was Gates of Winter frontman Lee Maines' Septicon solo project, which I honestly forgot to delete after GarageBand closed, as it was hosted there. The other deletion was for Kincheloe metal quartet Silent Despair, who quietly deleted their Facebook page at some point this year. So those are the last band removals from our band links, and hopefully things are more qualitative on our listings from here on out!And finally for today, let's end on a positive note with three quick news stories! These are, as usual, in alphabetical order by band name:
- Local hard rock trio Browbeat recently posted their cover setlist onto their official Facebook page! 14 covers are listed, including everyone from Metallica and Judas Priest to Green Day and The Cars, not counting their originals! Sounds good, click the above links for more from Browbeat!
- Garden of Bedlam are hitting the road for their furthest show ever from town, as they rock The Sinton Tavern in Thessalon on December 17th! Full details are at the Facebook event page. Nice to see, hopefully Thessalon enjoys this metal onslaught! Stay tuned for more Garden of Bedlam updates, especially concerning that supposed Foggy's show on the 18th!
- I apologize for missing this for so long, but two weeks ago, SooToday's "Friday Hot Shot" was from the Grady concert at The Grand Theater on November 16th! Taken by SooToday's own Donna Hopper, it features frontman Gordie Johnson with double guitar in tow! Great shot, hopefully Donna posts all her photos from the concert somewhere soon!
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