It's now time to dive into another busy weekend of concert previews in the Twin Saults! However, due to the length of this post, I'm holding our preview of this weekend's Fluid 5ive concert(s!) for our next post, coming either tonight or tomorrow morning, so look for them and more then! Now, let's kick things off with SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS!!
Kinross/Mount Pleasant, Michigan hard rock musician
Alex Traynor will return to
Biggby Coffee in Sault Ste. Marie for another afternoon matinee concert THIS SATURDAY! Apologies for the short notice, this show was only announced by the venue on
their Facebook event page on Monday. It appears that the Banned frontman's quietly announced show there this past weekend was a hit, as the Ashmun Street coffee shop is bringing him back for an encore just a week later, and hopefully Alex's unplugged covers play well with shop patrons and fans alike on SATURDAY! This show is a part of Biggby Coffee's expanded weekend concert schedule, with the hook being that performers will play 2 hour blocks on weekends for tips and complimentary coffee. You may have seen an open guitar case for tips in videos from last week's Alex Traynor and Tyler Dettloff shows, so it's clear those sets were part of this seemingly new series.
For what it's worth, Biggby Coffee is looking for performers for extra dates this weekend, namely a 10:00 PM set tomorrow and a 12:00 PM set on SATURDAY before Alex takes the stage, so contact the venue at
this link if you're an E.U.P. artist looking to play for tips and coffee this weekend! Alex's 2:00 PM matinee on SATURDAY has no cover charge or age limits. Visit the above links for more details, and here's Alex at Biggby Coffee!
Next up, a pair of local tribute band sets will hit The Rockstar Bar in Sault Ontario THIS SATURDAY NIGHT, headlined by the second live concert set by new local HIM tribute
Poison Girl! Again, apologies for the short notice, this show was only announced via
it's Facebook event page yesterday. Over six months after their debut at the same venue over the Halloween weekend, this union of all 3 members of
Stegadeth and ex-Gates of Winter keyboardist Brian Holmes will finally dust off their gothic metal and hard rock renditions in this headlining set, and it'll be interesting to see how things look for Poison Girl on SATURDAY! The other band on this night is Stoned To Deaf, a new (and online page-less) local Rage Against The Machine tribute band! A Rage tribute isn't brand new around here, as Dysfunkshunal Kemistry can tell you from 2009, but as far as I can tell, this band is completely unrelated.
As per videos of jam sessions floating around on personal Facebook accounts, their most familiar member is
Elements/ex-Redundant bassist James White, and he's joined in this new band by singer/guitarist William Jordan Wardlaw, guitarist Spencer McGillivray, and drummer Jamie Labreche, who previously played with James in the Blind River hard rock band
The Disciples of Rock. I won't embed videos I've seen of Stoned To Deaf, as none are publically posted yet, but the guys have the sound down from what I can tell, and William's a better match to Zach de la Rocha's vocals than I saw with Dysfunkshunal Kemistry. I'll be curious to see how Stoned To Deaf perform in front of a live audience, and you can see for yourself on SATURDAY NIGHT! A presentation of
(Choose) Maxx Entertainment, this concert has a 10:00 PM start time, no announced cover charge, and a 19+ age limit.
See the above links for more on this double blast of local tribute action on SATURDAY, and when videos of either band surface, we'll let you know! I don't recall public videos existing of either band at press time, sadly, not even Stegadeth covering HIM pre-Poison Girl's launch.
We'll close this preview post with the previously announced continuation of local hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison's arrangement at
Gliss Restaurant, as he'll return there for matinee concerts TOMORROW & SATURDAY, with a nighttime gig at
The Roadhouse Bar & Grill on Trunk Road tucked in between TOMORROW NIGHT! While fans can regularly see Tym's unplugged cover action at Gliss each week, tomorrow's Roadhouse concert will be Tym's first there in over a month. He'll be back one week after all three of these shows at the same venues, so you'll get other chances if you miss out, but Tym's diverse and prolific setlist should provide ample entertainment at the downtown restaurant or the east end bar this weekend! The Gliss matinee gigs are at 6:00 PM, the 19+ Roadhouse shows is at 10:00 PM, and none have a cover charge. Visit
the Facebook event pages linked
here &
here for more details, and here's Tym live in concert earlier this year!
That's all for now, but stay tuned for our Fluid 5ive previews and more next! Thanks everyone!
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