Artist: Triples
Songs: unknown* + Hillslide
Recorded at The Baby G (MFS 10th Anniversary Celebration / A Night of Rock Music!), March 2, 2019.
Although I don't get out to as many rawk shows as I used to, the 10th anniversary of this blog felt like enough of an occasion to warrant a special Saturday night kind of celebration. With a limited preview run of a new best-of compilation tape on the merch table quickly selling out (side note: second batch coming soon!) and a mini-remount of my MFS listening station, it felt a bit like a party, but what really made it was seeing so many familiar faces out for the hang.
When I started booking this show, it had a retrospective tint, focusing on musicians that I've been following over the lifetime of the blog. Even if all of them are still creating vital work, I wanted to celebrate a different stream as well, of discovery, of seeing something new coming together in a satisfying way. It was lucky, then, that I'd caught Triples a few weeks previous at Long Winter — this was exactly what the show needed.
Madeline and Eva Link brought a briskly-paced set of catchy guitar-rock confections, and even managed to inject their own historical footnote in the proceedings by covering a tune from Calgary 90's garage rockers Shinolas (which just happens to be the band of the sisters' father Pete Link). Over ten tears, I saw a lot of great stuff and made some friends by showing up early enough to catch a night's opening band, so it felt befitting to offer the audience an opportunity like that at this gig.
* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!
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