LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (Tym Morrison & Soundcheck) And Weekend Concert Previews!!

Let's dive straight into our (non-Tarnished) concert previews for this weekend! Due to the amount, I am holding our preview of Peril's St. Ignace Kewadin concerts for our next news post, which will hit the site by Friday morning. Also, note that the Sault Music News Letter page lists both classic/hard rock veterans Fluid 5ive & cover rock quintet Chunks of Manh as playing at The Esquire Club this weekend, shows that neither band nor the venue have corroborated online. If we hear confirmation re: Fluid 5ive there, we'll let you know. Now, here's most of the hard rock previews, starting with LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS, some on SHORT NOTICE!

Local classic/hard rock cover quartet Soundcheck will return to Reggie's West for concerts TOMORROW & SATURDAY NIGHT, while also returning to The Rockstar Bar on Friday, February 21st & Saturday, February 22nd! Apologies for the short notice on this weekend's Reggievelt gigs, they were only confirmed via their Facebook event page yesterday. TOMORROW & SATURDAY's concerts will be Soundcheck's first at Reggie's West in four weeks, and the guys are hyping up new songs in their setlist, so what's added this time out? Be there this weekend to find out, and of course, at The Rockstar Bar next month, in their first shows there with new frontman Cameron Oliver! Speaking of which, Cameron will be playing a solo concert at The Water Tower Pub next Thursday (source here), though his solo shows tend to skew towards country. All four of these shows are 19+ affairs with no cover charges and 10:00 PM-ish start times.

Despite the short notice this weekend, it's great to see Soundcheck back in the west end TOMORROW & SATURDAY, but circle those February dates on your calendar if you want to make plans to see Cameron, Terry, Paul and Glen's classic and hard rock mix downtown! See above and The Rockstar Bar's Facebook event page for more details, and here's Soundcheck live!

Next up, prolific local hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison (pictured with his old hair) will return to Gliss Restaurant for matinee concerts TOMORROW & SATURDAY, as well as a regular nighttime show at The Roadhouse Bar & Grill TOMORROW NIGHT, but we might as well add his February concert slate to our calendar today too! Saturday the 1st aside, obviously. Tym will return to Gliss like clockwork for evening matinee gigs on February 7th-8th, 14th-15th, 21st-22nd, and 28th-29th, so if you enjoy his dinner-time acoustic jams at this popular restaurant, you know where to go next month! Tym will also hit The Roadhouse Bar & Grill on Trunk Road twice in February, playing Friday nighters there on the 7th & 28th, so nighthawks and east enders won't want to miss those! Finally, Tym will play his second gig at Northern Superior Brewing Co. at 50 Pim Street on Saturday, February 22nd, giving double the downtown matinee action on this day.

A busy month lies ahead as usual for Tym, but he has the talent, experience, and extensive setlist to pull everything off flawlessly, so don't miss him at any of the above dates! The Gliss shows are at 6:00 PM, the Roadhouse concert is at 10:00 PM, and the Northern Superior taproom gig is at 3:00 PM. The matinees are all ages, the Roadhouse show is 19+, and while none of these have cover charges, remember where they are all being held. Visit the official Facebook event pages linked here, here, and here for more details, and here's Tym live at Gliss last year!



Also this weekend, TOMORROW is the kick-off for this year's annual Bon Soo Winter Carnival at The Machine Shop, and the opening night's musical entertainment will primarly be comprised of finalists from last year's Soo's Got Talent competition, including third place finishing party metal trio The Apocalypse Afterparty! It's great to see Paul, Amanda, and the presumed guest bassist back for the first time on a public stage since the finals, and they should add a solid blast of irreverent heaviness tomorrow night! Five of the seven finalists will perform at The Machine Shop, including winner (and Uncanny Valley frontman) Adrian Sullivan, runner-up Juliana Regan, beatboxer Robert "Killabeatz" Drolet, and vocal group The Dancing Divas, so if you missed the finals, this could be seen as an encore! Note that an earlier plug by organizers indicating that The Lock Cities Chorus of the Sweet Adelines would also be performing has quietly been removed for unannounced reasons. They wouldn't have fit the the Soo's Got Talent theme, but hopefully nothing bad happened to force their withdrawal!

Of course, there's much more going on for Bon Soo opening ceremonies beyond music, including guest speakers, a fire show, and fireworks, so click here for full details on that front. Also, country veterans The Jeff & Jeff Show will be playing in The Machine Shop after the fireworks, but this is being advertised as a separate concert from The Soo's Got Talent block.  The concert proper starts at 6:00 PM, this is absolutely ALL AGES, and admission is free with the purchase of an $8 Bon Soo button either upon entry or from select local retailers. Bon Soo's a wonderful event, and this should kick it off right, so see above for more details, and here's the finalists live!



Finally for today's previews, we'll head to the aforementioned Rockstar Bar, where local funk/hard rock quartet The Elements will headline a concert TOMORROW NIGHT! This one-night-only event marks a rare, though not unheard of, solo showcase for this fan favourite group, which coincides with frontman Rob Speers' birthday. What better way to celebrate than with a live concert and all of the frills therein? If you enjoy The Elements and have missed them as The Wyld Stallyns have gained more and more live dates, don't bypass this show to help end January on a high note with their hard rock, funk, and punk covers & originals! If there's a musical act playing at The Rockstar Bar on Saturday, I don't know who they are. Tomorrow's Elements concert has a 9:00 PM start time and no announced cover charge, and you must be 19 or older to attend. Visit the official Facebook event page for more details, and here's The Elements live!



That's all for now, but stay tuned for our Peril previews and more in our next news post, either before or after this month's CD review! Thanks everyone!