As the second night of Canadian Music Week rolled around, I found myself running just a wee bit behind. I got to Lee’s Palace just in time to catch the tail end of Rebekah Higgs‘ set. I’m not sure what the rest of her material’s like, but it’s pretty obvious that I’ve caught her and her band on their “rockin’ out” number, which seems to consist primarily of Rebekah wailing wordlessly into a microphone with far too many effects while the band bashes one chord as enthusiastically as possible. Pity.

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I just can’t get to the el Mo early enough anymore. Case in point: I tried checking out an act there a couple of weeks ago that was scheduled for 10:00pm. I showed up just a couple of minutes late only to find out the act had started at 9:20 and I had just missed the whole thing.

It happened again last night. All the CMW literature said that Toronto’s Automatic Dub Riot were kicking things off at 10, so I showed up at a quarter to only to see they were already playing. Oh well, the singer was still wearing his leather jacket, so I guess I couldn’t have missed much.

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