Truth be told Victoria

Here we go! No nonsense feedback for arts and music in the Capital region. This will include the politics and clique critique of our fair maiden as well.

Let's start with Victoria as a whole (hole) for a nightlife city. Downtown is a mix of clubs and bars for the hopped up bopper in the night.The live music is limited to Lucky Bar-DJs mostly,some live stuff that gets repeatedly cut off early for the dj dance crowd.Real lame.  I can't keep up with name changes of the Straths live venue.9ONE9 I think.Sure it will change in a couple of months.
Sugar has the weekends to give for mostly overpriced mediocre music.They have a club night on thursdays that brings out all the Jaegerbombsters.
The one and only gay bar is Papparazzis.Sad.
Venture up town a bit,you get some neighbourhood pubs.Fernwood Inn,Christies,The Beagle. All sporty and kinda dull.Not much sense for night life discussion,however,if anything should ever happen in any of these places worth mentioning,I will.Mostly,they're depressing and dull.
Logans Pub in Fernwood/North Park is an exception to the norm.
It's a neighbourhood pub,but also a music venue that hosts bands & djs,open mics.
James Bay has the Superior.That's fine.Not much life there either.Jazz and bad rehashed rock and hippie shticky. They are a self proclaimed church of music.Fine.
There are some galleries out there that put on shows too.50/50,OpenSpace,Ministry of casual living(haven't done much in a long time).
This is a city that seems to think it knows something about arts and culture.Most nights do not reflect that.Some nights,magic happens.Barely.
DJs-pretty run of the mill and boring
Bands-pretty much the same.
The genres have maybe 1 or 2 bands that shine,the others are regurgitating shit that the machine spits out for them to lap up.Those that try something different are quite often ridiculed or alienated by their own.
This past weekend I checked out some bands at Logans,Lucky,& Open Space.
It was a lacklustre weekend. Po Girl on wednesday was a room full of girls trying to get with each other.The band felt like a rewind 10years to be Good Tanyas territory.Dull.
Well played musical dullness.
Lucky had some real crap on Friday,Guily about girls,Techromancer,Celebrity traffic-puke!
Bands that are all 'look at me,I've got a girl in the band and a keyboard! Now we dance to my shit!'-Puke!
Open Space had a Zombie Space thing going on.I got there half way I guess,they were doing thriller.Minus Michael! Lame-o! There was a girl rapping about Wikipedia-that was kinda cool-not that it had anything to do with Zombies.
There was some dudes who work at Logans that played,a freaky dude named Dieter rocked a miniature keyboard! The first real Zombies/space thing I heard.The visuals for this were awesome too! It was footage comprised from scenes of the norwegian zombie flick Dead Snow!
Then it was two guys fro logans dressed in yamakas and blue suits that did a couple of cramps songs.That was ok.
It seemed that this was mostly about the visuals,and most acts seemed to not play to that.
Ryan Beattie was up next,another Logans guy,and was good.His guitar sounded great and his somgs were great.The visuals for his part were real effective too.i liked the fact he complained about a lack of blood.
The room was getting pretty empty.Another example of lame night life.At midnight the last band came on,more Logans dudes! WTF! They were loud! Their set was instrumental and seemed to be focused on sound for the images.Truth be told,I enjoyed this the best.Most people got up and left,lots moved to the back wall and took in great visuals with real scary and effective music for a space/zombie night!
Let's see what this week brings.