Most Of This Weekend's Local Metal/Hard Rock Concert Previews, Including April Wine!!

Finally, we're back with a new post today! This week's been oddly quiet (especially with so many big events and happenings in the coming months), so I apologize for the recent lack of updates from the SMS camp, but I strive to never go 3 days without a new post, and I'm keeping to that today with this weekend's concert previews! Well, most of them, as I'm moving the Banned preview to our next post to spread everything out and give proper emphasis to the April Wine concert. There's a solid lineup of local metal & hard rock bands in the area tomorrow and Saturday night, so let's get right to it with the first of this weekend's shows!

We'll start with two Sault Ontario hard rock bands playing all weekend, including local classic metal trio Caveman Morrison's return to The Roosevelt Hotel tomorrow night & Saturday night! The band's first shows of 2013, these come three weeks after a cancelled concert weekend at The Rosie that would have been among the first regional metal shows of the year, so it's great to see Tym and company back on the live stage despite the delay! I'd expect them to have a lot of great metal and hard rock covers in store, as usual if you've seen Caveman Morrison before, so keep a trip west to The Rosie in mind for your weekend plans! Admission should be free for both tomorrow & Saturday night's gigs, you must be 19 to attend, and there's no announced cover charge. For more details, visit the official Facebook event page! It should be a nice weekend of metal covers from Caveman Morrison, so go check them out if you can tomorrow or Saturday, and for a preview, here's their current lineup covering Living Colour's "Cult of Personality" at what's now Coch's Corner!



Also in Sault Ontario this weekend is the next two shows from newer hard rock quartet The Suicide Kings, who'll make their Docks Riverfront Grill debuts tomorrow & Saturday night! Originally scheduled to play their first gigs at the higher end Foster Drive venue on January 12th & 13th, those shows were quietly cancelled on the 12th (possibly due to singer Mike Gaetano falling ill), but a month later, they'll finally rock Docks this weekend with their fast rising blend of originals and varied hard rock covers! It'll be good to see the upcoming Rockstar Bar Battle of the Bands competitors back on stage, and hopefully the Docks crowd and their fans all have a great time! Admission for these shows should be in the $4 range, with 10:00 PM start times and 19+ age limits to be expected. For more details, visit the official Facebook event page! Hopefully this weekend's shows are a huge hit, and maybe it'll help open the door for more heavier bands at Docks? For a preview, here's The Suicide Kings playing their original song "Into The Fray" last fall!



We close today's post with the third hard rock/metal show at The Dreammaker's Theater at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino on Saturday night, including three 1970s hard rock pioneers that are ready to rock! The headliners are the Juno nominated multi-platinum Halifax hard rock quartet April Wine, who'll bring their classic repertoire of hits like "Just Between You & Me" and "Enough Is Enough" for what should be a long awaited appearance in the area! After all, I don't think they've played in the region since rocking Sault Memorial Gardens on their 1985 "farewell tour", so this has been a long time coming! Their widely varied and often hard-edged sound should be easily welcomed to the area, and with the great Myles Goodwyn still up front, expect a great set! Support bands include the Steve Priest-led version of British glam/hard rock trailblazers Sweet (not the original version led by Andy Scott), who helped define glam rock in the 1970s with hits like "Ballroom Blitz" and "Fox On The Run", and even if this is a new version of the band, the lineup is promising, and the songs should rock all the same!

The openers on Saturday will be Illinois hard rock veterans Head East, who saw their own successes in the mid-1970s with songs like "Since You've Been Gone" and "Love Me Tonight", and their classic take on fun hard rock should be hard to beat this weekend! This should be a huge concert if the ticket availability is any indication, as just 19 tickets are left for the show (all but one in the 6th-8th rows), so if you don't have your tickets yet, get them A.S.A.P. at this location, in person at the Kewadin Casino box office, or by phone at 1-800-KEWADIN! This is an all ages show, everything starts at 7:00 PM on Saturday, and I'd call ahead in the event of a meet & greet, as you rarely hear advance online word for them. Classic hard rock fans should be all over this event, and with good reason, as these bands combined to give us a lot of well remembered and catchy original songs in their heydays, so don't miss April Wine, Sweet, and Head East at The Dreammaker's Theater on Saturday night! For a preview, here's April Wine playing "I Like To Rock" live in Montreal in 2010!



That's all for today, but stay tuned tomorrow or Saturday for a new news post featuring the Banned concert preview and more recent updates! Thanks everyone!