The other big Monday night show, Oct. 24 was the Deaner’s band Nightseeker who were playing to a rollicking crowd of metalheads at the Stone, Oct. 24.

 Deaner,  Aka Dean Murdoch, aka actor Paul Spence of the FUBAR movies fame, definitely lives the party and was definitely “given ’er,’” to borrow his catch phrase.

 I arrived midway through Nightseeker’s hot set in the middle of a surreal moment with the Deaner in all his flying black hair and bare chested glory, wearing a black bra, danced on stage with two beautiful women, while singing Poison’s  wretched ’80s hair metal hit power ballad “Every Rose Has A Thorn.” It seemed like the perfect Deaner moment.

Monday was a good night for some Monkey Junk — the Ottawa based blues band who made their Lethbridge debut at the Geomatic Attic, Oct. 24.

 I arrived near the beginning of their second set, with frontman Steve Marriner sitting behind a keyboard, laying down a solid, bluesy groove on what Marriner  described as  “one of our bummer songs.”

 They picked up the pace as Marriner donned a Danelectro baritone guitar to hold down the bottom end, and played some distinctive riffs and unusual solos.

 But lead guitarist Tony D provided all the guitar pyrotechnics on a variety of axes.
 They played most of the music from their latest CD “To Behold” as well as couple classic covers from blues legends like Muddy Waters.

Vancouver based band BuffaloSwans are coming back from all over the continent to play a three week tour in support of their new CD “The Body Electric,” which brings them to the Slice for a Halloween gig, on Monday, Oct. 31.

 “Then it is back to regularly scheduled programming,” said Scott Bell, a sound engineer in Oklahoma, who worked at a studio in Vancouver with drummer Stephan Mihajlovich.

“That’s where I met everybody,” he said.

They got together to play numerous festivals at the end of summer, then scattered to their homes all over the place.

Guitarist James Lamb lives on a farm in the Kelowna area, Keyboardist Jobi Mihajlovich lives in the St. Albert/ Edmonton area and is on the road for much of the year with her three other bands while bassist James Green is a Carpenter and sound engineer based in Vancouver.

University of Lethbridge community radio station CKXU, 88.3 FM, kicked off their annual FUN Drive by having a lot of fun revisiting some of their favourite ’80s movies during the sold out  ‘Don’t You Forget About Me,’  event at the Slice, Oct. 22, getting their annual fundraising week off to a rocking start.

However, thanks to the plethora  of the great events, Oct. 22, I missed Smell The Glove, playing Spinal Tap hits, Sophomore Jakes performing “Top Gun” and CKXU station executives ExExxx playing “Real Genius, but caught a very cool set of metalized music from Unicron, playing some of the ’80s metal from the soundtrack of the popular 1986 animated movie Transformers.

 They were outstanding, digging into a variety of synth heavy ’80s hair metal, but they added some thrash  the the Transformers theme and were having a blast, before winding down “Don’t You Forget About Me,” just before midnight.