Monday Roundup #207

Community notes:

• The call is out for next round of Tranzac residencies for April through September. Hit the link and get yourself a stretch of dates in Toronto's best music room!

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Concert announcements:

Peripheral Vision (Lina Allemano Four) 2025-01-07 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Audiopollination (feat. Rabia Agha/Yoshi Maclear Wall/ Meryem Alaoui / Mike Smith/Em Wright / Matthew Endahl/Matt Collins / Mickle32/Elizabeth Lima) / Array Space 2025-01-10 (Friday). $10 (cash or card), livestream available. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Tranzac New Year's Eve (feat. Joseph Shabason & The Welcome To Hell Tentet / Sandro Perri & Friends / Jane Inc) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-12-31 (Tuesday). $30 Adv. / $32 door. [FB event]

Tania Gill Quartet [Tania Gill/Lina Allemano/Rob Clutton/Nico Dann] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-01-03 (Friday – early). $pwyc. [FB event]

Diane Roblin's Life Force [Diane Roblin/George Koller/John Johnson/Kevin Turcotte/Colleen Allen/Tim Shia] / The Pilot 2025-01-04 (Saturday – 2:00 p.m.). $15. [FB event]

Josh Cole 4tet+ string(s) [Lina Allemano/John Oswald/Nick Storring/Blake Howard/Josh Cole] / Sellers and Newell 2025-01-04 (Saturday). $25. [FB event]

Adjacent Spheres (feat. Michael Davidson/Emily Steinwall/Germaine Liu/Aidan McConnell/Blake Howard) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-01-05 (Sunday)

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It happened this week...

• ...on December 30, 2018 at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge).

The Titillators - If I Were a Bell

• ...on January 4, 2019 at The Gladstone Hotel's Ballroom (Long Winter, Vol. 7.3)

Katie Sketch - unknown

[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]

Recording: Katie Sketch

Artist: Katie Sketch

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at The Gladstone Hotel's Ballroom (Long Winter, Vol. 7.3), January 4, 2019.

Katie Sketch - unknown

Though she's popped up playing in Vag Halen, it'd been over a decade since I last saw Katie Sketch playing her own material. After a debut at the Basement Revue late last year, this was the second outing for this new five-piece band, sharing a short but elegantly-constructed set of ace stuff. The presence of a new website and instagram account add some momentum to the claims that some long-awaited solo material will officially surface this year.

[Long Winter Vol. 7.5 will be at Workman Arts on Friday, March 29th. Lineup Announcement Coming Soon!]

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

Recording: Light Fires

Artist: Light Fires (feat. Katie Ritchie)

Song: Dependent

Recorded at The Piston, August 1, 2013.

Light Fires - Dependent

Full review to follow. Celebrating the release of her debut album Face, Regina the Gentlelady pulled out all the table-climbing, high-kicking stops. The whole night was a worthy sweaty party to mark the occasion. And as a bonus, for this track (which shows up on the album as a duet with Owen Pallett) Regina was joined by Katie Ritchie (once of The Organ, currently playing in queer feminist cock-rockers Vag Halen).