The Slice had a big night of punk and power pop, Saturday, May
18. I only caught one band, who ended up being Calgary’s Homeless in Hawaii and was really impressed if only because I loved that the frontman Tanner Cyr had a speckled silver Gretsch guitar just like mine.
They played a really tight set of mid ’90s style power pop along the lines of the Lemonheads and Gin Blossoms and a touch of Jimmy Eat World, but also added a funky groove and plenty of hot guitar solos, through a set of mostly original music that had my toes tapping. Cyr put his Gretsch to good use on a solid cover of Queen’s Crazy Little Thing Called Love.”
— By Richard Amery, L.a. Beat Editor
