Remember how Edmonton metal quintet Striker are playing at Soo Blaster on Sunday, June 9th with locals Re:Born opening? Well, we know a lot more on that show now, as Striker aren't headlining: Toronto metal legends Anvil are! After headlining at The Canadian Nightclub in 2012 & 2014 and at The Rockstar Bar in 2015, the "Metal on Metal" icons and eponymous documentary stars will finally return to Sault Ste. Marie for another night of entertaining originals from across their career, including from last year's new album "Pounding The Pavement." It's great to have Anvil back in town after a 4 year wait, so don't miss them at Soo Blaster next month! As for the teased second local openers, they will be punk/metal quintet Jack Spades (fronted by co-promoter J.D. Pearce), who opened for Anvil at their last two local dates and at a short Northern Ontario tour run in 2014, so they're a great pick to reprise that role! For what it's worth, the new Facebook event page lists Striker between the local bands.As this is no longer just a Striker concert, the advance ticket price has doubled from $10 to $20 (or $25 at the door), and it now has a 7:30 PM start time, but it remains a 19+ event. A VIP package also exists that includes a private booth for 6 people costing $200, so keep that in mind also, and advance tickets of any stripe are on sale at Soo Blaster. Suddenly, this concert has been injected with a lot more metal, so don't miss Anvil, Striker, and locals for another big Soo Blaster concert in just over a month's time!
Next up, here's a new video from last night's Hells Bells (and Dave Evans) concert at The Rockstar Bar, courtesy of Christopher Paci's excellent YouTube channel once again! At press time, he has only posted two videos from Hells Bells' Dave-less set, but if he posts anything with the original AC/DC frontman, we will let you guys know. Chris' clips features the Barrie-based AC/DC tribute band tackling "Back In Black" and, as embedded below, their eponymous song, and while the vocals seem not as raspy as we know Brian to be with the actual band, the renditions are solid overall. Give it a look below, and keep watch in case videos with Dave Evans surface!
Let's wrap things up in Sault Michigan, starting with the latest from Banned frontman and local solo musician Alex Traynor, who recently got another local television performance under his belt! Like in March, Alex was the featured performer on the "Friday Sessions" segment on 9&10 News' lifestyle newsmagazine series The Four last week, where local viewers got to see him play the title track from his "Crazy World" EP. Similarly filmed as his March performance, this is a nice unplugged rendition of this harder rocking track, and hopefully it gets Alex lots of exposure across the Cadillac-Traverse City TV market! I can't embed 9&10 News website videos here, but you can watch it at this link, even if you're in Sault Ontario, and watch The Four on channel 10 (Spectrum) or 10.1 (antenna) on Fridays for more regional musicians! Now, Alex was back in Sault Ste. Marie this weekend for a Thursday matinee gig at Kewadin Casino, but that was't all for him back home!
I profusely apologize for missing this, but Alex played a special 2:00 PM matinee gig yesterday at Biggby Coffee at 2502 Ashmun Street, which was only announced on the venue's Facebook page on Thursday. Biggby Coffee tends to host solo acoustic performers in early timeslots, sometimes as part of open mic nights, so it's not a venue that often comes across our radar, but I do apologize again, we'd have covered it on the site had we known about it! For what it's worth, Insipid Brutality/Condemned alum Tyler Dettloff played an acoustic matinee show of his own today, though I don't know much about his music work nowadays. As it turns out, Biggby Coffee actually shot two videos of Alex's set for their Facebook page, including this distant clip of him covering Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary", but embedded below is a much closer, face-forward video of Alex covering Matchbox Twenty's "Push". Both are on a vertical camera angle, but that's fine for a solo performer.Alex seems to be in his element with these unplugged clips, and while the cover choices are softer than his studio originals, remember that this is a coffee shop (part of a big chain, no less) at 2:00 in the afternoon. Solidly done renditions overall, especially if you can get past the distant view on "Prud Mary", so give Alex's videos a look above & below, and we'll try harder to stay on top of Biggby Coffee gigs if they happen to fit the SMS' coverage!
That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and updates on the site this week! Thanks everyone!
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