ART BERGMANN, BRIDES, CONTROLLER.CONTROLLER, MOST PEOPLE (covering Broken Social Scene), DELTA WILL (covering Caribou), HERVANA (covering Constantines) LOCKBOX FT. LAURA BARRETT (covering Owen Pallett), MORE OR LES (covering T-dot hip-hop classics) and SKELETONES FOUR (covering Jim Guthrie) as part of Wavelength Festival at Sneaky Dee’s (431 College St), Friday (January 13), 7:30 pm. PWYC. See listing.
Wavelength is celebrating its sweet 15th birthday this year with a four-day festival kicking off this Thursday [see our first preview for the fest here].
Reason #1 to go to Sneak’s on Friday: living legend punk pioneer Art Bergmann is headlining. Reason #2? Brides and Toronto’s own dance-punk heroes (and former NOW cover stars) Controller.Controller are reuniting for this show.
And the third and possibly most important reason is that the civic love will run deep, with six acts playing covers of some of their favourite Toronto bands. Hervana, the city’s all-female Nirvana cover band, will play Constantines for a change, Caribou will be reinterpreted by shimmering pop artists Delta Will and More Or Les, co-host of Hip Hop Karaoke, will cover classic T.O. rap. Soft singer-sonwriter genius Jim Guthrie gets the Skeletones Four treatment, Lockbox takes Owen Pallett and Most People – with a mere two members – are taking the Broken Social Scene challenge.
Here’s Lockbox, featuring Laura Barrett, covering a fellow burgeoning local band – Girls Rock Camp’s Rock Talk:
Find out more about Wavelength Festival here.