Lethbridge independent record store Blueprint celebrated their seventh birthday with a lot of loud
live music at the Slice, Nov. 30.
While I missed Chief Mountain, I arrived in the middle of an incendiary set by a ne
w punk/ alternative rock trio called Advertisement featuring Adrian Sutherland on guitar. They played a tight set of energetic rock along the lines of band s like Sonic Youth which impressed a lot of the full house, who were asking themselves what they just heard.
I haven’t seen Fox Eyes for a while, but was glad to see them again.
While I remember them as a metal band, their set was more ’90s style grunge rock along the lines of Hole.
Lead singer Fox Mandy leaped around the stage playing guitar and shrieked like Courtney Love. Her piercing voice was reminiscent of Fist City who were playing after them.
The music had a lot of shrieking feedback and a lot of intensity and a solid groove. They even sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to Blueprint.’
Fist City played exactly what everybody expected them to play — delay drenched surf inspired garage and punk rock music.
They played a lot of perky crowd favourites as well as some brand new song.
As they were still playing around 1 a.m. I called it a night before headliners Napalmpom took the stage to end the night.
