08.19.06 Pride Tiger/Lions in the Street

This is probably the first and last time I'll probably go to the Cobalt. The Cobalt is probably known as Vancouver's only Hardcore and Metal bar. It's also a dive. It probably has one of the Top 5 worst washrooms in the city. It smelled of heavy bleach, so i guess i'll give them some credit as i imagine it was at one time worse that it is now. It was advertised as 8pm doors and 10pm show. Show doesn't really start until 10:30.

The first band was "The People Versus". a white stripes like duo. playing a white stripes like sound. female drummer, male guitarist w/ the ability to make bass like riffs from his guitar. not bad. had a pretty cool sing along song w/ their closer "the lighthouse" (or lighttower or light something i can't recall...)

next band up was lions in the street. have heard a bit about this band. the had problems during their sound check w/ an acoustic guitar. they had to soundcheck it at least 3 times. they've got a real skynyrd feel to them. even dressed in a 70-ish manner. they definitely had the chops tho. excellent guitar work and kept me relatively entertained throughout their set.



east van's own pride tiger rounded out the night w/ a 35 min set (encore included) of fun times. this band gets better everytime i see them. they even had masa (from goatsblood and probably some other bands) come out and do a saxaphone solo. the band had the crowd eating of there hand the whole time. they're so good i'd (begrudgingly) probably see them again at this venue.

$9/$10