Recording: Good Enough Live Karaoke feat. Chris Murphy

Artist: Good Enough Live Karaoke feat. Chris Murphy

Songs: Suburban Home + Bikeage [Descendents covers]

Recorded at The Dance Cave (DEATH TO T.O. V), October 30, 2015.

Good Enough Live Karaoke feat. Chris Murphy - Suburban Home

Good Enough Live Karaoke feat. Chris Murphy - Bikeage

For its massive fifth year of Hallowe'en covers, DEATH TO T.O. upsized from its home at The Silver Dollar/Comfort Zone to Lee's Palace and the Dance Cave. That allowed it to keep its sprawling two-stage upstairs/downstairs dynamic even as it accommodated a bigger crowd than ever. Besides curating no fewer than seventeen (!) short sets, Dan Burke and Elliot Jones also kept things running on schedule, with one set starting quite crisply as the one on the other stage ended for nearly the whole night. And as always, the bands put in a lot of work — not just musically, but a lot of the time in trying to capture the look and mannerisms of the band they were covering.

Back in their formative days, the Good Enough karaoke crew helped Sloan's Chris Murphy explore his hardcore mojo by backing him for a full set of Minor Threat covers. That loud fast rules dynamic returned for this set that saw the band tackle no fewer than eleven songs from Milo Goes to College in their twenty-minute set.

Recording: Good Enough Live Karaoke

Artist: Good Enough Live Karaoke feat. Jay Share-It

Song: The Passenger [Iggy Pop cover]

Recorded at Lakeview Stage ("Dundas West Fest"), June 6, 2015.

Good Enough Live Karaoke - The Passenger

For the second year running, The Garrison showed its community spirit, programming a day's worth of live music in the parking lot across the street from them. With a zero per cent chance of rain and the sun in that not-too-hot-not-too-cool zone, it was a pretty perfect day to stand in the street and take in some music. Top-notch sound kept heads turning throughout the day, and there was enough variety to appeal to various segments of the passers-by.

Quickly becoming Toronto's hardest-working live karaoke band, Tim McCready's rotating unit aspires to be "Good Enough" to be able to wing it when acting as the backing band for anyone brave enough to sign up and sing on stage in front of a crowd. With hundreds of songs in their book, they're becoming known for playing long sets for all comers. This rousing afternoon set on the festival's stage saw them playing with a few ringers, including Jay Share-It (of The Green Rays and Fill Spectre) as well as some members of the public.

[Good Enough are holding down the stage at Yonge Dundas Square on Sunday, June 21st from noon to 5:00 p.m., so if you've ever fantasized about fronting a band on the big stage of the city's living room, this is your chance. You can keep up on other Good Enough events at their facebook group.]