So what do you do on a Sunday night? Why, you go to a punk rock show, that's what you do. So it was last Sunday I made my way to The Buckingham on Whyte Avenue for a triple bill of music.
The first band of the evening was a Madball cover band fronted by JFK of E-Town Beatdown, also featuring members of Run With The Hunted and Sleeping Girl. Madball is a hardcore band out of New York, but this was Edmonton's version. I thought they sounded great, JFK certainly had the vocals down and the rest of the band were damn good as well. A great set.
Madball cover band.
Second band of the night and the surprise guest was a band called Seas out of Brampton, Ontario. This band is made of two former members of the band Moneen. Led by Chris Hughes of Moneen, he with the long ass dreads. Chris is a crazy front man whipping his air around and jumping around all the while singing and playing guitar. Also from Moneen was drummer Peter Krpan. Sitting in on bass was Clay Shea whom used to be in the Edmonton band Choke. Their music is a mix of pounding heavy shit shifting to psychedelia all in the same song. I rather enjoyed their set.
Seas.
Headlining the night was The Devil's Voice which is an SNFU cover band made up of members Jesse Zaraska from (Misery Signals/Compromise) on vocals, Brent Connolly (Sleeping Girl) on guitar, Garrett Heath Kruger (Fire Next Time/The Allovers and more) on drums, Braden Sustrik on bass (Compromise) and Shawn Moncrieff on guitar (Choke). of course The Devil's Voice is an SNFU song title from their If You Swear, You'll Catch No Fish album.
The Devil's Voice came together for a Halloween show where local bands did sets of bands being bands. These guys chose the iconic Edmonton punk band SNFU. It went over so well that they have now played a hand full of gigs since. This was my first time seeing them, and knowing most of the guys in the band I was looking forward to seeing them perform. I thought they did an excellent job. Lead singer Jesse might not have Chi Pig's (Kenn Chinn) voice but he did it justice and he had Chi's moves down good to his prancing, dyed hair, high kicks and the way he held his mic. You could tell Jesse was having a blast as were the band cranking out these old punk hits. Songs like "Cannibal Café", "She's Not On The Menu", "Where's My Legs" and "Time To Buy A Futon". Their 30 or so minute set was full on punk rock, I just wish I could remember what other songs they played but I am drawing a blank. I guess that's what you get when you don't write a review in a timely matter. I had a lot of fun at this show. Good times!!!
The Devil's Voice.
In concert news...The Devil's Voice will be playing their last gig on New Years Eve in Edmonton at The Temple in the Starlite Room, Also, Jesse Zaraska's band Misery Signals are working on a new album and touring Europe in 2019 with a couple of warm up shows in Alberta. One of them being at the Starlite Room on Sunday March 17th.
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