Recording: Neil Haverty

Artist: Neil Haverty

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at July 3, 2025 at The Baby G.

Neil Haverty - unknown

Neil Haverty, best known as frontman for Bruce Peninsula, was canny choice to open things up for Rock Plaza Central — not only as someone who'd played before shared audiences in the past, but more pragmatically having someone in solo mode was probably a necessity on the rather crowded stage. Most recently sharing a film score with the world, Haverty was back in balladeer mode here, sharing not only some stripped-back tunes that he mentioned have more fleshed-out, electronic versions forthcoming, plus a few brand new ones (like the one posted here) freshly written in the lead-up to this performance. Haverty has always had a voice that took up space, and a few more years of milage certainly hasn't changed that. For someone that I was seeing, oh, back around the third-ever gig this blog covered in 2009 (when I was still mildly ambiguous about Bruce Peninsula), it was pleasing to share some reflections on shared experiences and time passing.

^* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!