Today's SMS post mostly wraps up some unfinished business from a YouTube channel that was first featured here not too long ago, but leading off, here's one more hard rock concert preview for this weekend, so here's what you Yoopers should know!
We'll start by wrapping up this weekend's known local hard rock concert previews, and that means a trip south to Rudyard, Michigan, where newer local hard rock quartet Unfortunate Sun will return to Huck's Pub & Grill for one night only TOMORROW NIGHT! This will be the first stop for the Fake Chow successors at the former Joe's Bar since rocking their Halloween party three weeks ago, but there will still be a theme tomorrow, as the concert will be a "hunter's widow party". Basically, a hunter's widow is a spouse or significant other temporarily "widowed" when their partner goes on extended hunting trips, so this is essentially being marketed as a ladies night to coincide with the beginning of firearm deer hunting season in Michigan today. Of course, Unfortunate Sun aren't "widowing" anyone tomorrow, so they'll entertain with their nicely varied and performed covers, and hopefully there's a solid turnout!
Note that the official Facebook event page also refers to this as a "comeback celebration", but as three weeks isn't a huge turnaround to call something a "comeback", I don't know what Unfortunate Sun are referring to. Tomorrow's concert is a 21+ affair with no announced cover charge and an 8:00 PM start time. Visit the above links for more details, and for a preview, here's Unfortunate Sun live!
The rest of today's post concerns the other SMS-relevant videos from veteran Sault Ontario punk drummer Adam Sauve's YouTube channel that didn't fit into our last post covering his videos from his old bands Talk Shit and Nebraska Arms. The four newest (public) videos on the Skwunch channel are of his current band Honest Work, who are essentially Nebraska Arms with Rising Tide alum Sheldon Jaaskelainen on vocals & guitar in place of the late Guy Thiffault. Only really active on social media via TikTok and Instagram, Honest Work have played just two public concerts to date, and the first one was filmed for videos on Adam's channel! As you may recall, this band (also featuring guitarist Dave Prendergast and bassist Wayne Watkins) debuted when they opened for the one-off Fuller reunion at LopLops Lounge this past December, and three videos from that night were posted on Adam's channel, though all three of them publically exist elsewhere.
One was cribbed from Jimmy Polnick's Facebook live-stream of their set, while the other two (of Honest Work playing their own "Dead Friends" and covering Nebraska Arms' "Lighthouses") were originally uploaded to Dave's YouTube channel last year. Adam only chose to upload part of the full content though, with Jimmy's full half hour live-stream still being on Facebook and Dave's channel featuring seven videos from that night. Also, Adam curiously chose to save them for his own channel via screen capturing a smartphone, not via a Facebook video downloader client, so they have in-app controls and buttons that appear in frame. All three videos have been acknowledged on the SMS in their original context, but I will embed Jimmy's copy of "Dead Friends" here because, for one reason or another, external embedding of his live-streams from the Fuller concert was quietly disallowed at some point in the past year.
To see Jimmy's full-set videos of Honest Work, Fuller, and The Gambit from this post-Christmas concert in 2023, click here! The visual quality isn't ideal given the vertical dimensions and Jimmy behind behind a lot of attendees, but he got some solid footage regardless, so check out "Dead Friends" below and more from Honest Work's live debut above!
We'll close today with the sole video of Honest Work on Adam's channel that I haven't seen publically elsewhere, which sees them playing "Dead Friends" at an apparent jam session. Uploaded in July, this video puts the camera at high vantage point, looking down at Sheldon, Dave, Wayne, and Adam, which is a unique visual, especially when they're placed where they are! A little cymbal-heavy in the audio mix, but this is a fun performance of a song clearly inspired by the loss of too many friends of theirs, so give it a watch below, and hopefully we hear more from Honest Work soon!
That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site this weekend! Thanks everyone!
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