This concert weekend isn't as busy as last week, but it will still take three posts to get through everything with metal, hard rock, and punk bands in the Twin Saults and area! This first preview post looks at most of the heavier-leaning shows taking place tomorrow night (all thankfully with advance notice), with Bone Yard 225 and Saturday-only events coming in the next two posts. Here's what you should know to start off!
Four local metal bands will descend upon Robbie Adamson's old church in Leeburn TOMORROW NIGHT! This special concert is the replacement event for Crucifest, a planned metal festival promoted by Deciduous Events & Decor that was cancelled due to health concerns with the main organizer. As such, the five planned touring Ontario metal bands (Beguiler, Salem Trials, Seagrave, Drugwolf, and Dead Roots) will not be here tomorrow, but the four local openers will rock on, including the long awaited return of death/thrash metal trio Pillory in their first show in almost five years! Robert, Blair, and Bret's comeback has been teased a few times, so hopefully they melt many faces tomorrow! Skate punk/crossover thrash quartet Hails (who played in Leeburn at the It's The Pits festival last month) and metal trio The BAG (fresh off of opening for Vaegon at Jay's) will also keep up their recent local momentum by making the hour's drive east.
Finally, the debuting (and online page-less) Sault Side Squad will open things tomorrow, featuring As It Stands' Justin "Nadj" Pregent, A Dire Setback's Chris Nielsen, Jack Spades alum Anthony Orazietti, The Haze's Jordan Wardlaw, and Winkstinger's Jonas Gasperas in their stacked lineup. This concert has no age limit, a 7:00 PM start time, and a $20 admission fee (camping tomorrow night is encouraged as you'd expect at 5756 Highway 638). If you love local metal and you're able to drive out to Leeburn tomorrow night, you won't want to miss this stacked concert, so visit the above links for more details, and for a preview, here's Pillory live!
Next up, let's head to Sault Michigan for another Friday nighter, as local blues/hard rock quartet Project 906 will return to The Merchants Bar TOMORROW NIGHT, but in a relatively unusual twist, they'll be sharing the stage with another band for a nightclub gig! For this latest stop on the "#summerof906", the guys will be performing alongside Ann Arbor power pop trio The City Lines, who are fronted by Saultite Patrick Deneau. It's always good to see relocated local musicians come home for concerts, and while I'm not overly familiar with Patrick, he seems thrilled to be playing in the Soo once again, so don't miss The City Lines' upbeat indie rock-leaning originals tomorrow at The Merch! It's not clear who's headlining, as even the official poster lists both bands first in different spots. Note that, according to fellow local hard rock band Exit 808's Facebook page, their drummer Jackie Moon will be filling in for Jason VanLuven tomorrow, but 906 have not publically confirmed that. If true, Jackie should fill in nicely!
This show has a 9:00 PM start time, no cover charge, and a 21+ age limit. Visit the above links for more details, and for a preview, here's a new video of Project 906! This (sadly) vertical video comes from their outdoor show at The Well Diggers Watering Hole & Feed Lot in nearby Kinross on July 13th, and was posted to their Facebook page the following day. It features 51 seconds of the ending jam from Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird", which notably features guest hand drums from Paradise Excuse alum Brian Duford (no word on if he was present for more than this song but he has guested with 906 before). No Billy to hear here, but this is a fun snippet off what went down two weeks ago, so give it a look below!
Back to Sault Ontario now, as local classic/hard rock solo musician Tym Morrison will continue his weekly summer arrangements at The Mike Case Memorial Stage outside of The Trading Post TOMORROW NIGHT and Misty's Fifties on SATURDAY! No Gino's gig this week, so if you want to see Tym's vast array of unplugged covers, you'll have to head to the outdoor stage beside the ice cream parlor at The Trading Post tomorrow or the Second Line West nightclub for his weekly Saturday matinee. Either way, fans will get a good show! As usual, tomorrow's show is at 7:00 PM, Saturday's is at 4:00 PM, the former is all ages, and neither has an announced cover charge. Weather-wise, 9&10 News is calling for partly cloudy weather at about 26° tomorrow, so prepare for a warm one if you're seeing him then. Visit the official Facebook event pages linked here and here for more details, and for a preview of these shows, here's Tym live!
Finally for these previews, let's head back to Michigan for local hard rock quintet The Nameless' St. Ignace debuts TOMORROW & SATURDAY NIGHT at The Northern Pines Lounge at their Kewadin Casino! Last seen two weeks ago at the aforementioned Merch, this weekend's shows will be The Nameless' first at a casino (Kewadin or otherwise), and hopefully the guys get a good response with their hard rocking covers, even if they don't have hair metal fans outside to make up the numbers later on like last week! No frills to mention here beyond the usual, with 9:00 PM start times, 21+ age limits, and no announced cover charges. Despite their lack of public videos (their unembeddable debut concert livestream aside), The Nameless are a talented group with familiar faces in their ranks, so keep these shows in mind, and visit the official Facebook event pages linked here and here for more details!
That's all for now, but stay tuned for our previews of Bone Yard 225, Neither Could Dylan, and HeadFirst's shows this weekend, along with the Go North Music Festival and the Salty Marie Trails Fest, in some form or fashion in the next day or two! Thanks everyone!
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