Wednesday, April 07, 2010

The other woman

The next band on stage were The Mistress. I had heard the name but knew nothing of the band. Then I went and checked out their Myspace and saw that two of the members were named Sammy and Wolfgang. Clearly this wasn another project of the brothers from Girlfriends. And so it proved to be. They have some of The Girlfriends helter-skelter appeal, but with a more hard rock, propulsive sound.

Sammy Automatic at left, Coupe DeVille at right and Jimmy "Naked Jim" Jr. at centre.

The Mistress at Mavericks

And Wolfgang, in his long underwear,  makes four.

The Mistress at Mavericks

Singalong action!

The Mistress at Mavericks

Wolfgang frets!

The Mistress at Mavericks

Jimmy rocks the Travis Bickle look.

The Mistress at Mavericks

Shouty action!

The Mistress at Mavericks

Coupe works the axe.

The Mistress at Mavericks

Jimmy stands up, Sammy sits down ... don't they know it's supposed to be the other way around?!?

The Mistress at Mavericks

Everybody's doing it.

The Mistress at Mavericks

Shirtless action!

The Mistress at Mavericks

Rolling around action!

The Mistress at Mavericks

Hair-shaking action!

The Mistress at Mavericks

Wolfgang works the crowd!

The Mistress at Mavericks

Unfortunately, somehow Wolfgang managed to yank the Marshall head off the half-stack, causing erious difficulties with the input. This led to some onstage wrasslin' with Chris Wild, of RottawaY, owner of said head.

The Mistress at Mavericks

The set concluded with some audience participation.

The Mistress at Mavericks

No word on when they play next. Unfortunately when I google Mistress nowadays 99% of what I get is about Tiger Woods ...
  • Show reminder: See Joe Smile, Joe Zambon, Ami Jette bring their acoustic guitars to Zaphod Beeblebrox; Kele Fleming and Komatose are at The Rainbow; Big John Bates and The Rockalilly Burlesque rock Mavericks; the Elmdale House hosts the 18th Great Canadian Song-along.

1 comment:

Tyson said...

Thanks for the mention. We'll actually be doing a full band set tonight, hope you can make it!

Tyson
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