Here's a new news post for your Saturday afternoon reading, and it's devoted to LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS on each side of the border, including a big returning festival! Before I get too far, just a reminder that
a musicians' mixer will be held at
The Canadian Nightclub TONIGHT where local musicians can meet, coordinate, and arrange musical collaborations. This is
not a concert, but it's being promoted by Jeremy Hannah's Sault MusicScene agency. 9:00 PM, 19+, no announced cover, so keep it in mind if you're looking for musicians to jam/work with! Now, here's those new concerts!
Kinross, Michigan classic/hard rock trio
Banned have announced a handful of new concert dates for 2018, as per new Facebook event page creations through
their Facebook page, and they start with
three gigs at the Jack Passmore Grandstand at
Kinross Speedpark
on June 2nd, June 23rd, and September 7th! Remember, Banned played
their hometown race track last September too, so this is nothing new for
them. They'll be serving as entertainment after Saturday practice wraps
up on June 2nd & 23rd (the practice sessions for the season
opener and Triple Crown events respectively), while the September 7th
show will follow the
Friday practice for the Memorial
Invitational race, so keep these relatively unique concert sets in mind
for later this year! In more traditional realms, Banned will also return
to The Rapids Lounge at
the Sault Ste. Marie Kewadin Casino on September 28th-29th and on December 14th-15th, returning there for the first time since March, so don't miss those either!
These
concerts also join newly confirmed gigs on July 3rd & 11th in
De Tour Village and Curtis, both of which are outside of our 1 hour
coverage range. The three Kinross Speedpark shows are listed at 9:00 PM
with no age limit or cover charge (though note that the races proper
have ticket admission), while the Rapids Lounge shows are at 9:00 PM
with a 21+ age limit and no cover.
Click here
for Facebook event pages on these and previously announced Banned shows
in 2018, and don't miss this talented group at The Northern Pines Lounge in St. Ignace next month!
Next up,
the Oh!No Music Festival is officially on for year #2, so what should you know on it? Taking place on Saturday, September 8th, the
Six, Two, Oh.-promoted
concert festival will return to "Robbie's Church" in nearby Leeburn,
Ontario, with much the same atmosphere of last year's event, with
overnight camping and "hangouts" available, and food vendors on site,
though no word yet on a prospective bonfire. The performer lineup is
expanded from 13 to 17 acts this year, with only four bands from last
year not returning for 2018 (The Elements, Handsome Sandwich, and out of towners Run Coyote
& Artificial Dissemination), so if you liked last year's
roster, you should be right at home once again! The seven out of town
bands will include Barrie punk quartet
Beaver Slap, Sudbury punk standouts
Lightmares, and Thunder Bay desert rock quintet
The Franquilizers (all back from 2017), alongside four touring bands new to Oh!No '18, so who are they?
The other 4 out of town acts include Peterborough hardcore punk trio
Cross Dog (featuring former Lion Ride guitarist Mark Rand) in their first local concert appearance in
five years, and Peterborough doom rapper
Garbageface (as seen at a few well received local shows last year), while Toronto indie rock quartet
Forest City Aurora and London post-grindcore trio
Fat Cop
will be making their local concert debuts at the Oh!No fest. This
lineup alone is stacked, and it's particularly cool to see Cross Dog
back after far too long! The 10 local bands this year include four
returning bands, they being punk/metal quintet
Jack Spades, alt-punk trio
A Dire Setback, death metal quartet
Winkstinger (in their first announced show of 2018), indie/hard rock trio
Vol.,
and drone rock trio Pointless, while 2017 solo performer Brenton
"Slumshine" Ellis will return in his new surf rock band
The Dynowaves.
The new additions for 2018 include local/St. Catharine's grindcore trio
Shit Liver and alt-hard rock quartet
Id Iota, plus indie/folk solo artists
Jackson Reed &
Shae Tull,
though no word yet on if DJ Seith will be back to spin tunes between
bands. Quite a stacked lineup full of familiar faces, including a much
sooner Shit Liver return than we anticipated (if only their splitmates
AlgomA were playing too!) More details, including full timeslots,
admission fees, and ticket locations are to be announced , but tickets
go on sale on July 1st. For reference, they cost $25 last year, but
there were also less bands. As well, with a shuttle bus likely not in
the cards, remember that promoters encouraged ride-sharing and cab
rentals for fans to get to Leeburn and back last year, given the
relatively remote locale. There are a lot of unknowns yet for Oh!No II,
but visit
the official Facebook event page for full details, and it's great to have it back on September 8th! Stay tuned for more details as they roll in!
That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and updates on the site next week! Thanks everyone!
The other two currently posted videos from this show come via presenting sponsor Rock 101's Facebook page, as a staffer filmed two Finger Eleven-involved songs before the concert proper began. One is a 33 second clip of Finger Eleven (minus singer Scott Anderson) playing their newer song "Living in a Dream" during their soundcheck, which sounds fine in this instrumental format! The other video, which is embedded below, is of Finger Eleven and I Mother Earth (I Mother Eleven?) covering Christopher Cross' "Ride Like The Wind" during the acoustic pre-show on Wednesday evening. Very unexpected cover, but for it's also short runtime, the song appears to turn out well enough! Donna noted in her SooToday article that the two bands also covered America, The Kinks, and Peter Gabriel during this unplugged set, which is surprising, but it does show the two bands' range & diversity, so give this video a look below as well!
