Fund raising punx style.

Frank of lost youth and Thomas of The mudplot/Spilt Guts organized a show to raise money for the MS society. The Nummies, Mudplots, Lost youth, chest hair eagles and The sentries all played great sets, for a great cause.

Lost youth.

Chest Hair Eagles

The Mudplots

Unfortunately I missed the Sentries set and shot the Nummies on film that has yet to be developed (it might take awhile as I'm broke a fuck at the moment) So I'll do a part 2 later on with more of The Nummies and the Mudplots.

Police Funeral

East end Radicals

So I had an awesome batch of Digital photo's from several different shows. I tend to mostly shoot with one of half a dozen film cameras I've picked up over the past couple of years, but when I have the chance I'll bring along a digital SLR. The problem with digital is that you don't have a hard copy negative you can file away for future use. I had all my Digital files on an external hard drive, yesterday it died. I lost a shit load of pictures that had no back ups whatsoever. One of these shows was The east end Radicals.

So here is the only picture from that show that survived. If you have the chance check them out, they play a kind of updated nineties punk rock with a clear Rancid/Hellcat vibe.

Rattales

These were taken Last year at the Slave to Semen Fest.

Thee Nodes

This is Thee Nodes. All I know about them is they come from Montreal (there might be a couple of Ottawa natives in there) and they are fucking crazy as shit live. 

So a few words on the show. The guys putting on the show asked everyone to take of their shoes, so I obliged and went sans shoes for the first set. Huge mistake, because a bunch of people kept their shoes on and my feet got stomped on by big guys in boots, to the point that the toe nail on my baby toe was ripped completely off. during the first band's (Asile) set. The space was super small (a basement) and very hot and humid. During the second set I had to worm my way to the front to get any shots of the second band (Shot Nerves). When I finally got to a good shooting position my camera lens fogged all to shit because of the extreme heat and humidity. I did a photo shoot  in between sets (Asile and Shot Nerves) with the guys from Lost Youth. We decided to take some pictures behind some kind of community centre, and while shooting  two crack-heads hurled homophobic insults our way and threatened to kill us. One of them was clearly carrying a knife (I never saw it but you just sense these things) so we got out of there went back to the show and watched Thee Nodes play. While watching them ans shooting pictures the singer kicked me in the head (accidently) and thew a half full beer can at my camera (hit it). 

Thee Nodes. He is grabbing my pants and trying to pull them off., just seconds before he kicked me in the head.

Btw, this is not a complaint about the show. It was fucking awesome and well worth losing a toenail.

Whiskey Shits

Just some good old fashioned Drunk as fuck punk! I need not say any more.

The Rebel Spell

The Rebel Spell's a hardcore band that hails from Vancouver, and they're catchy as shit.. I was pretty much sold to these guys very recently (but they've been around since 2002) by a friend and this video. I love this video; it beautifully invokes all I love about hardcore.