Marconi Meets World & Tym Morrison Concert Previews, Plus A Couple Of Inactive Band Notes!!

(Updated at 9:16 PM) After a brief return to regular posts on the SMS yesterday, we are temporarily back in the concert preview grind today as there are a couple of mid-week hard rock shows to take note of! The backlog of recent stories will still get a bit of relief via some band link updates, but here's what you should know for your concert-going plans!

As recently usual, local acoustic hard rock musician Tym Morrison will (weather permitting) play another solo concert TOMORROW at The Mike Case Memorial Stage at The Trading Post as part of his summer season arrangement there! These Wednesday evening gigs seem to be going well for the prolific singer/guitarist, and hopefully Tym has lots more unplugged classic and hard rock favourites in store! Yes, I am well aware of Tym's Shooters shows later this month, we'll have more on those in this weekend's concert previews. Tomorrow's concert has a 7:00 PM start time, no cover charge, and no age limit, but be advised that 9&10 News is calling for light rain tomorrow during showtime. If the forecast is accurate, the thunderstorms will cease beforehand, but the rain alone may put the brakes on things. For now, visit the official Facebook event page for more details, and here's Tym live!

Next up, local funk/hard rock band The Wyld Stallyns will perform at the huge Marconi Meets World festival outside of The Marconi Cultural Events Center at 450 Albert Street West THIS THURSDAY! Of course, Marconi Meets World will unite multiple cultures for themed days of live entertainment, cultural heritage, and family activities this weekend, so be sure to visit the official Facebook page for full details on the daily events! The Stallyns will be the only hard rock-leaning band this year, and they're certainly no stranger to outdoor festival events in 2022, so hopefully Christina, Rob, Jesse, and Derek (and Alex?) have a good & rocking show on Thursday! As you can see in the schedule, The Wyld Stallyns are the openers at 5:15 PM on the Tenaris Main Stage, where musical performers will exclusively play (the Culture Stage is for cultural & indigenous performers). Artists include headlining country musician Brendan Hodgson at 9:15 PM, ...

...folk/roots band Unorganized Township at 8:00 PM, and new indie/blues rock cover trio All The Tired Horses at 6:30 PM, with Friday and Saturday's lineups themed around First Nations and Italian cultures and having music lineups in kind (also, Thursday's top two acts will pull double duty on other nights). Note that surf rock trio The Dynowaves were originally supposed to play at 9:15 PM with Brendan later (and on Friday too), but they were knocked out for the same health-related issue that forced them out of Rotaryfest. Tickets were once on sale for Marconi Meets World, but due to increased community support & sponsorship, the festival is now FREE for all attendees all weekend long, so definitely keep everything in mind extra now that tickets are not required!. Yes, this is ALL AGES, and Thursday's events start at 2:00 PM, earlier still on later days.

Weather-wise (as this is an outdoor event, the main stage is beside the Marconi Club proper), 9&10 News is currently calling for mostly sunny weather in the 22° range but that is two days out, so keep tabs on the forecast just in case. Marconi Meets World sounds extremely ambitious, but a weekend full of family entertainment and cultural awareness should be a winner for many, especially if weather behaves itself, so don't miss out on all of the action, including The Stallyns and crew on Thursday, and visit the above links for more complete details! Here's The Wyld Stallyns live!

Finally, we have a couple of Sault Ontario bands to move to our inactive band links, both featuring local metal guitarist Brendan Christie, namely his classic metal quartet Late & Loud and his progressive metal duo Kraken Mara. Both bands have passed our one year inactivity threshold, Late & Loud since releasing their "Late & Legends" score album in April 2021, and Kraken Mara since posting their EPs on their website in the early summer of last year (they look like they're on sale but neither progresses past entering an e-mail address). After being active off & on from 2010-2014 (with a further reunion gig in 2019), Late & Loud's members launched the Dungeons & Dragons podcast Late & Legends in 2020, whose score compositions by Brendan & Jonathan Tiberi led to the aforementioned new album, and while a follow-up is certainly possible, there's been no public hints that a second Late & Loud/Legends album is in the works.

As for Kraken Mara, their original run from 2015-2018 was curtailed when Brendan left to work overseas. They came back in 2021 with ambitious plans and new videos towards two EPs named "Press Start" & "Game Over", but social media updates were never plentiful even then, despite the EPs seemingly being done. Hopefully both bands resurface when the time is right, both are too talented to not get more from eventually, but best of luck to Brendan, Jonathan, Benn, Josh, and Jake no matter what! That's all for today, but stay tuned for some long-awaited Rotaryfest fallout & videos tomorrow! Thanks everyone!