Local Metal Video Showcase!!

After a day or so to build up some stories, we have an all-video post on the SMS today, featuring two recent live-streams, a solo project's studio teaser, and a live concert video from last year from an angle you don't see every day. Here's what you should know!

Local/Thompson, Manitoba alt-hard rock musician Mike Haggith's third #LockdownLive post-show took place on his Facebook page on Sunday, primarily to announce the winner of the share contest from Saturday's #LockdownLive IX festivities! After running through what happened the previous night and discussing the idea of patching in other live-streamed viewers for live collaborations, Mike announces that #LockdownLive IX had 209 shares, with the winner sharing the video 128 times. Mike changes rooms to contact the winner on his laptop due to technical difficulties, and the winner was Re:Born frontwoman Elly McWatters, who nominates "The Pussy Cat Song" by Connie Vannett. Afterwards, Mike listens to the song live so we can see his reaction, and it's definitely amusing! To close, Mike covers "MorningStar" from "If Ever Comes The Day" as requested by Elly, before recapping everything and promoting #LockdownLive X on Saturday, theme to be revealed.

A bit more concise than the prior two post-shows, despite Mike's technical issues with his tablet, but all of the pertinent details are included, and that will be quite a cover on Saturday! Give everything a look below, and stay tuned for more on the next live-stream after it occurs!

Next up, local hard rock solo musician Tym Morrison's 18th live-streamed concert took place on his YouTube channel yesterday, though technical difficulties reared their ugly head once again, as ("Starting Soon" card aside) this installment only didn't even run for 20 minutes! You could tell something was off right away, as Tym's opening rendition of Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" was joined in progress, the audio track jumps ahead at points, and the visuals look like a slideshow with only occasional motion. That song is cut off before it ends too, moving right into Tym's cover of Roxette's "It Must Have Been Love", also already in progress. After spending a couple of minutes working on the stream, Tym covers Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise", but with issues ongoing, there's a 4 minute wait for Tym's last song, Kim Mitchell's "All We Are" in it's third straight appearance in Tym's live-streams. Afterwards, Tym abruptly ended the show due to the ongoing technical issues.

Aside from the audio skipping ahead at points, Tym's performance were on par with his past live-streams musically, but the choppy video quality and lag was clearly not optimal, and definitely the worst I've seen for this series. Hopefully Tym sorts out the issues in time for his next planned live-stream tomorrow, as the videos have looked fine far more than not, but give yesterday's abbreviated show a watch below!



Also, here's a cover from a perspective you don't see a lot of, via a GoPro-style camera mounted on the head of a bass! This comes from a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" by country rock cover quartet Bone Yard at Reggie's West in May of last year, as uploaded to bassist Brad Stephen's YouTube channel at the time. It's always nice to see Bone Yard tackle songs outside of the country spectrum, as they tend to nail it with them, and the relatively unique camera angle adds some spice as well, especially if you haven't gotten a good look at the stage at the former Roosevelt Hotel since Reggie bought and remodeled it in 2014. Check this cover out below!



Finally, here's the latest from Sault Michigan hard rock solo project Hubbard, who have made their first Facebook page postings of the year in the past couple of weeks! True to form, posts there have tended to be sporadic teasers attached to photos of instruments and gear that don't give much away. However, project leader (and 415E/ex-Nixxon Dixxon guitarist) Chris Hubbard has revealed that it's "almost time to record some music", and in their first ever video upload, you can see Chris (I assume) warming up on a drum kit with "a bunch of nonsense". Sounds good while it lasts, but will we be getting more updates soon on the Hubbard project? Give it a watch below!



That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site in the coming days! Thanks everyone!