07.10.2009 Wintersleep / Mothers Children (Ottawa)

The Ottawa BluesFest is a bit of a misnomer, since it's hardly just music of the blues genre. However, it is a pretty wicked festival. spans almost 2 weeks and brings in all sorts of awesome musical acts. In addition to Stages on the streets of downtown Ottawa, they also have other venues doing smaller regular shows. Anyways, it appears Ottawa has the same problem with live venues that Vancouver does. Apparently this the second incarnation of the Capitol Music Hall. The first one met it's demise when someone decided to build condo's in it's place.



First up was Mother's Children. Possibly without the apostrophe. They were kind of a garage rock band. Lots of energy. However, substance wise, I wasn't really feeling it. Actually the people around me thought the same. As the someone around me pointed out, "all the songs sounded the same." Yeah more or less. Really not the worst opener I've ever seen.



Wintersleep took the stage at around 12:15. Yep past midnight. The crowd was really good. Less of the drunk 'agros' and more of the 'sing along' types. Wintersleep debuted 2 new songs. From the setlist I snagged, it seems like one's called "Experience the Jewel" and "Blood Collection" or "Cat Power", depending on which setlist you have. (My friend's setlist says "Blood Collection", mine says "Cat Power". Paul did say it was tentatively called "Blood Collection" though. The first new song was sort of a down tempo tune, that starts out slow then builds into a nice noisy breakdown where Paul makes a lot of noise on his guitar. Man that sounded like an awful description. I'm not even going to bother trying to explain "Cat Power", only that it sounds like a mid tempo Wintersleep song. They finished their main set with Orca. Sounded really good and really heavy. The encore included one of the new songs while Danse Macabre closed out the night.



Miasmal Smoke & The Yellow Bellied Freaks
Archaeologists
Caliber
Drunk On Aluminum
Astronaut
Weighty Ghost
Murderer
Experience The Jewel
Oblivion
Laser Beams
Jaws Of Life
Orca
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Blood Collection
Danse Macabre

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