Wednesday 18 April 2012

Anagram's Last Stand!


Anagram played their final show this past Friday the 13th at the Silver Dollar, preceded by solid sets from Cut Flowers and The Soupcans. I don't know what to say except that it was a great time and I saw some old friends and Anagram were fantastic. I woke up drunk the next day and felt pretty sad and confused for the next 48 hours or so, knowing IT was all over now. As if I hadn't lost enough clarity for one night, my prescription sunglasses vanished at the show too.


At some point on Saturday, I remembered that I might have bought Ivy Lovell's tribute zine on my way out the door of the club; I checked my coat pocket and there it was - "What A Mess", a lovingly compiled little booklet of live photos over the years with a bonus link to "RIP ANAGRAM", a collection of demos and live tracks. I'm listening to the songs right now and of course they're great stuff. I'm very glad I fumbled for that toonie. It's a shame I didn't pick up the very nice poster by Michael Deforge as well. I meant to and simply forgot, I guess.

I have a couple of crappy phone camera photos of Anagram's set. I have no memory of taking these at all.



RIP ANAGRAM 2003-2012

Sunday 8 April 2012

Sleazy Meanz - Elias Hell

The recent death of Ronnie Montrose had me contemplating some kind of loopy evisceration of Montrose's Rock Candy. Long story short, that didn't happen - but this did: a similarly bloody grafting of Elias Hulk's 1970 classic Nightmare with the soundtrack of Ron Ormond's 1974 Christian scare film The Burning Hell*.



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For visuals, I used anything Hell or hellish - whether that be ancient Japanese Hell scrolls or already-crappy modern CGI. I put it all together over March, and then let it sit a week or so before I decided to unleash it here -- on Passover Weekend (!).

I hope you enjoy.

*let the record show that Vomit Squad** used footage from the film before this in their brilliant video for "Burning with Beelzebub".
**the last band No No Zero did a show with, back in December of 2011. And fun times were had.