I missed al tuck. It seems I always miss al tuck b/c he always starts playing while I'm still at work (conspiracy? hey marc, can you do something about this? :) Superfriendz were amazing! Better than at the funding drive in feb...no guest hip club groove appearances this time but lots of extremely tight renditions (esp when they paid me, I'm always surprised when they manage to coordinate all of the parts of that song b/c it seems so easy for the drums to get ahead of the guitar & then it just falls apart) of I think every song from the new lp, some new songs, something by al tuck, the rolling stones "start me up" (for which chris played bass & drew played drums) & a bit of a generic monoxides tune. Adam & I were sitting waaay back for the 1st half of the set so I couldn't see drew b/c a pole & jenny pierce standing next to the pole were in the way. Chris M appeared to be exorcising some serious demons with the way he was attacking the drum kit...his glasses kept slipping down his face until finally they fell off...I've never seen him have so much fun playing ever (tho tara lee & roderick said that this was reminiscent of the cafe ole show a couple of weeks ago)...matt did all sorts of double karate kick sorts of things (& I thought he reserved those for the lil orton shows) & kicked the cymbal into chris' face at one pt...adam mentioned to me that he thinks matt is starting to look & act a little like joel plaskett but that must be that "all hfx bands look alike thing" :)...it just amazes me that 1 of them can start playing a song & the others, all mouthing "what are we playing" can follow along seemlessly...the best band in hfx! While we were sitting on the floor for the encores someone started dancing using a hula hoop...it was the most bizarre thing...nothing really to do with the show I just thought it was weird.... Saw the monoxides at birdland afterwards...about 4 songs 1 of which was their faithful cover of kiss' "deuce" ...they're so "macho" it kills me! ") THey thanked the audience for not starting fights like "the last 2 times" they were here & the guitarist with the rosy cheeks was wearing the same treble charger shirt that he wore while playing the eric's trip moncton show....
Oh I also saw james & jim and a few others walking down towards birdland on my way home from work fri night & they looked very dapper in their white shirts, dark suits & skinny ties. WAs the rest of the coyote crowd so fashionable? .........kat, in the green velvet dress I was supposed to wear
