Things got a bit fuzzier for me this evening.
During the day I walked along the water front, which smelt fishy and wandered around the city which was filled with buskers, homeless people, and students aplenty. Not unlike a smaller humbler T.O.
Tonight we spent most of our time between jager bombs and Keith’s (the east coast beer) at the Kelp Records showcase. Kelp Records is an Ottawa based indie label. Their artists are mainly folk singer songwriter types, which happens to be my favourite kind of singer songwriters.
Laura Borealis and her banjo welcomed us to the venue with cute earthly hums and hymns. Jessie Kussin’s acoustic set was overloaded with his nasal vocals, which was quite painful to listen to. A definite highlight of their showcase was Andrew Vincent’s heartfelt set. He is surely Canadian, sounding much like Warren Spicer (lead singer of Plants and Animals) or Jason Collett but depressed and heart broken.
This all makes for some great lyrics like “when you get high, you know that I get low”. Unfortunately we leapt on to the streets to take cabs home before the much buzzed about Hilotrons took the stage. Keep your eye on this up and coming collective of great artists.
Sorry for such a short report. I had dinner at this wonderful restaurant called Fire Side and if I were a food reviewer I would probably have a whole essay to write about that –it was delicious.
