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Yukon Blonde w/ The Paint Movement & Megan Bonnell

Posted on July 9, 2011 | Leave a comment

A Nevado Records showcase featuring psych-rock band Yukon Blonde, pop-fusion outfit The Paint Movement and singer-songwriter pianist Megan Bonnell took place April 8, 2011 at the Horseshoe Tavern.

Megan Bonnell started things off with a set of songs about love and relationships, a bit mellow for the rock n roll type crowd on hand, but none the less appreciative of her talents.

Then it was onto The Paint Movement, a musical smorgasbord of sounds, rythyms and melodies. A very interesting band to check out.

The Paint Movement

And finally we had the headliners, Yukon Blonde. I’ve wanted to see them live since I first heard “brides song” on CBC Radio. This feeling was further enhanced when I heard ‘Wind Blows’ and ‘babies don’t like blue’.

The crowd was ready to be rocked, and with the radiators blasting out unnessary heat in the room, Yukon Blonde didn’t take long to get the place all sweaty and jumpin’. Please leave a comment, enjoy.

Brandon Scott

Jeff Innes

Yukon Blonde

Hardly ‘Plain’ and fully ‘Steel’, the Plain Steel play in Etobicoke

Posted on May 29, 2011 | Leave a comment

On yet another rainy spring night in Toronto, I had several choices on where to hear some live music, but in the end I chose to head out to ‘Hollywood on the Queensway’ in Toronto’s west end to check out my friends band play and hear some great guitar blues, cause that’s how I was feelin. I had the blues and I needed a fix.

This is all fine and all but then the opening act came out to warm things up. A band called “the Plain Steel” hailing from Hamilton, Ontario., Steel Town as it’s known around these parts. The place that direly needs a NHL hockey team. They made the journey down the infamous QEW slowway into Toronto’s suburbia to show us what’s happening back there and say Hey Man! check this out!

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A fourpiece consisting of Caroline Olsen on viola, Jay Lee on bass, Vince Waters on drums and Ross Lizotte on guitar/vox give us a blend of folk, celtic, blues and just good ol’ plain rock n’ roll with a little metal thrown in for good measure! Perhaps a little ‘Tullish’, as in Jethro, but this doesn’t quite cover it. I don’t know how to describe it to you, I guess I’m thinking just a refreshing original band with a hint of the 70’s thrown in. I love the enthusiam that Ross puts out on stage, showing he truly enjoys what’s happening, would be good if all members did the same, perhaps in time. We did have a rather unique guitar/viola tradeoff of solo’s which was really cool. I thoroughly enjoyed these guys and hope to see them again sometime. Check them out the next time they play if you can, it’s worth a look.

Ross Lizotte