The 7th Annual Jay Brown Memorial/Hospice Benefit Show was fucking great, yet again. All the bands fucking killed it.
Orange Krush played their first show, and they were awesome. It's not pop as the name would suggest, although there is a fair bit of melody in the songs, as well as some lovely harmony leads on the guitars. This band is a Willy Jak production, with Mambo on lead vocals. See them next time they play. It'll be worth your while.
Car 87 pulled off their angry intense 80s style hardcore, making me feel like I was at the OAP Hall back in the day. Tight, aggressive, and in your face. I would love to play with them and Write Off one day, preferably an all ages show. They are not only a great band, but they are great people as well. Buy their record, assholes.
AWT were on their fucking game as well. Roy is possibly the best front man in this crackhole of a city we call Victoria, and Knuckles is one hyped up motherfucker on the bass. They are all excellent musicians. To be honest, I would never in a milion years write the lyrics that Roy does, but they are a fucking amazing live band, and believe it or not, Roy is one of the nicest guys I've met. See them also.
AK-47 had a great time playing, and I think people were surprised and amused that we ended our set with "Ain't 'Talkin' 'Bout Love" by Van Halen. Kent managed to be both Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth at the same fucking time. It was still fun to have vocal help from Hoon and Matt Lock (yes, it's his real name) for that song. 1700 bucks were raised for Hospice Victoria. Fuck yes.
Thank you to Hoon, Ange Trash, ALL of the bands, Scott Henderson for doing the difficult job of doing sound for us, to everyone who comes out to listen to this fucking noise, and to Logan's, for letting this happen year after year.
Much love to you all, and see you next time.
