After a brief spell of feature posts, I realized that we have quite the backlog developing, partly due to seasonal commitments on the personal end of things, so let's slowly start remedying that! Luckily in that respect, this is a quiet weekend for announced hard rock concerts, so let's also including some LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (two on SHORT NOTICE) to fill things out. Here's what you should know!
The acoustic gigs have 8:00 PM start times, the rest all begin at 9:00 or 9:30 PM, none have an announced cover charge, and all are 19+ events. If you like Bone Yard, you will enjoy their final shows of 2023, so visit the above links for more details, don't miss them first off at Jay's Piston Broke Pub TOMORROW & SATURDAY, and for a preview, here's Bone Yard live!
Next up, local party metal trio The Apocalypse Afterparty have been added as openers for another otherwise rap concert at Soo Blaster, this time opening for Guelph rapper Robbie G on his latest tour! The show takes place on Friday, December 8th, and is along the lines of the past rap concerts at Soo Blaster that The A.A. opened, only now featuring Ha!ls' Mikhal Muto as a second bassist. Robbie G will be familiar to local hip hop fans for opening for Tech N9ne, Afroman, and Madchild here (all shows at The Apocalypse Afterparty opened), but this is Robbie's own headlining tour, and while I'm not a rap scholar, he does have a strong flow and rhymes to match! As usual, The Apocalypse Afterparty are the sole rock band outliers next Friday, with Sound Syndrome, Sawbe, Bold Noize (likely not in a reprise of his punk turn from last summer), Jaay Sheps, Lumberjack Pat, and Lil Clout. Occxpied & King Mickey are advertised on Eventbrite but not the poster, but I don't know which source is currently accurate.Presented once again by R-Evolution Media, I do apologize for the month-long delay in plugging this show on here, but I was waiting for the final poster listing the opening acts to be shared publically (initial posters only mentioned Robbie G). This all ages show has an 8:00 PM start time and tickets run for $20 at the door or via this link (with processing fees/taxes), while VIP packages for $50 or $140 also exist. These rap shows at Soo Blaster do seem to do well, and The Apocalypse Afterparty definitely enjoy playing them, so hopefully they continue their cross-genre campaign with style and intensity next Friday, and visit the above links for more on the (mostly) rap festivities ahead!
Finally, let's go back to weekend concert previews on this seemingly quiet hard rock concert weekend by previewing the previously announced show by local classic/hard rock cover quartet Soundcheck, who will return to the aforementioned Shooters Downstairs Lounge for one night only TOMORROW NIGHT! Soundcheck (no space) even lead off the Dennis Street nightclub's December concert calendar from their Facebook page, which is the first formal schedule posting that they've made to confirm their Saturday DJ nights that began earlier this fall. As hard rock goes, they and Bone Yard are the only largely amenable bands playing this month, but Lime do have a few SMS-friendly covers. New Year's Eve will there will be a karaoke night, for the record. Last seen at Shooters over Halloween weekend, hopefully this proves to be another fun night of classic and hard rock cover action for them there tomorrow!
I am well aware of Soundcheck's New Year's Eve concert for this year, check back for that in an upcoming post. Tomorrow's concert at Shooters has a 9:00 PM start time, 19+ age limit, and no cover charge. Visit the above links for more details, and here's Soundcheck live!
That's all for now, but stay tuned for more (overdue) news and notes on the site in the coming days! Thanks everyone!
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