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Long Winter at the Great Hall

LONG WINTER with KING COBB STEELIE, BIDINIBAND, ELL V GORE, DOOMSQUAD and many more at the Great Hall, Friday, November 8. Rating: NNNN


Last year Toronto hardcore punk mainstays Fucked Up launched the PWYC Long Winter concert series at the Great Hall, with music, dance, film screenings, multimedia art, author conversations, food vendors and more. Thanks largely to its tightly curated music lineups and anything-goes spirit, the events were successful and warranted a second edition.

While Damian Abraham & Co. sat this one out, there was plenty of local talent spread over the course of the evening, taking over the venue’s top two rooms plus the Blk Box Theatre in the basement as well as adjacent restaurant, the Samuel J. Moore. The night featured Guelph dub-influenced rock veterans King Cobb Steelie and Rheostatics founder Dave Bidini’s new outfit Bidiniband, but the highlights were noisier newcomers like the moshpit-inducing punks Cellphone and the appropriately named drone-mongers Doomsquad. For those who needed a little extra help fending off the early November chill, Prince Nifty’s late-night set of experimental electro-pop got bodies moving.

There was also Vish Khanna’s faux late-night talk show, featuring a projection of the Toronto skyline as a backdrop, a house band and guests Zaki Ibrahim and Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow an arcade room and a performance piece led by Henri Fabergé.

The next edition goes down December 13.

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