Calgary stoner hard rock quartet Woodhawk will make their long-delayed local concert debut on Wednesday, September 10th at Soo Blaster! If the name sounds familiar, it may be because this isn't the first time that Woodhawk have attempted a local booking. The former Oh!No Collective planned to host them at LopLops Lounge in April 2020, only for that show and its associated tour to be cancelled due to the first pandemic lockdown. Like then, Woodhawk are touring in support of their latest album (in this case, "Love Finds A Way"), and their classic rock-influenced brand of stoner originals with strong guitar riffs should find a welcome audience next month, even with the mid-week scheduling! After Oh!No planned for a genre hybrid lineup in 2020 (the tabbed local openers then were A Dire Setback and DJ Seith), this concert will stick closer in genre spirit, including hard rock quintet HeadF1rst in their first show since the Northern Vibe Festival.
As well, online page-less metal quintet The Sault Side Squad will play their first show of the fall as the opening band, and given their stacked lineup, you won't want to miss them! This concert begins at 7:00 PM two weeks from now with a $15 cover (up from $10 in 2020) and no announced age limit. It's still rare to see touring bands reschedule local dates cancelled back in 2020, so keep that angle in mind, let alone Woodhawk's distinct doomy hard rock attack, in two weeks' time at Soo Blaster!
Next up, if you're a fan of The Hair Scare on Saturday nights on Rock 101, how does a live version sound? I don't know if the radio show will be linked in any official capacity, but if you love hair and glam metal, you'll want to stop by The Dreammakers Theater at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino on Saturday, October 25th! Your headliners in two months are New Jersey hair metal veterans Trixter in their local debut, though bassist P.J. Farley backed up Mr. Big's Eric Martin's acoustic show here in February 2020. Fans will know Trixter from hits like "Give It to Me Good" and "One In A Million". Co-headliners here are Illinois glam metal quartet Enuff Z'Nuff in a local stop seventeen years in the making, as they were supposed to open for Skid Row in Sault Ontario at the cancelled Runway Park outdoor concert in June 2008. If only L.A. Guns had also rescheduled up here before they broke up!
Enuff Z'Nuff will be best known for classics like "New Thing" & "Fly High Michelle". Also coming to the Soo in October are two Hollywood-based glam bands, including Pretty Boy Floyd (who hit the scene with songs like "Rock and Roll (Is Gonna Set The Night On Fire)" and "I Wanna Be With You"), and the more modern hair revival band Permacrush. There's a lot of talent, glam rock, and vintage sleaze to take in from this package of bands, so don't miss out in late October! This concert will be the first in over a year from local promoters Allstar Promotions, who last brought Ratt's Stephen Pearcy to The Dreammakers Theater this past September. Tickets (including fees) run for $33 in the center section and $28 everywhere else, and there's loads of good available seats available at this link, at the in-person box office, or at 1-800-KEWADIN. This show starts at 7:00 PM and it has no advertised age limit.
It's hard to believe that, in all of the successful hair metal shows to take place at Kewadin, none of these bands have played at Kewadin before, so if you're up for a night of old school late 1980s-early 1990s hard rock, you know where to be in two months! Visit the official Facebook event page for more details on what should be a fun night of hair metal action!
We'll close today with a topic that straddles both of the twin Saults, as the now-defunct Sault Michigan punk trio The Sole Aggressors posted a video of their set at The Distraction in Sault Ontario in January onto their YouTube channel at the time! Apologies again for the delay in their full-set videos from the past year being so late to get covered here. This was at an all-locals show headlined by Hails, and marked The Sole Aggressors' debut in Sault Ontario, one of a handful of Canadian dates of theirs this year. That was and still is very encouraging to see. In order, their all original set saw them play "Tale Of An American Hero", "Kill A Celebrity", "False Hope", "Kill Thy Neighbour", "Heil Artificiality", "Time To Commercialize!", "Reject", "Melted Plastic", "Teenage Guide", "State Of The World", "Fool", "Hypocrite", "Fast Punk For Fast Food", "Down By The Bay", and "Ventilation".
The set ended with two new songs that weren't played in prior concert videos, namely "Burning Down" and "Humans Aren't Ordinary Monkeys". The lighting in the basement on this night was very blue, so be advised of that going in, but Calvin, Brett, and Isaac are on form here with a nicely varied sound with solid lyrics and punk attitude to spare, so give this full set video a watch below, and there's two more to come!
That's all for now, but stay tuned for weekend concert previews on the site next! Thanks everyone!
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