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10-4 Blog

All Photos & Descriptions by Aimee Power

Sunday from Sappyfest 4 August 2.09
Sunday morning was a whole new start. My feet were tired from the night before and I spent the day relaxed in the Vogue Theatre or main stage tent and didn't try to cram too much into my day. I'm lazy like that. We all witnessed the confusion that was Gambletron. Our entire group left the theatre puzzled afterwards as we weren't sure what really happened. It looked interesting enough as they had bike tires set up on stangs and were playing them with violin bows. We stuck around through the longest sound check ever and I don't think anything was going their way. They eventually just played a song on a discman and proceeded to text and talk to their friends during the last song. Bizarrrrre.

My favourite discovery of the weekend is hands down going to Luyas. I was stoked to hear that Jesse from S.S. Cardiacs was in this band so maybe I was instantly inclined to enjoy. Her and members of Bell Orchestre kept me intrigued with french horn as a leading instrument and some sort of weird guitar/sitar hybrid? Still unsure on that one, by the way. Regardless, Jesse kept me intrigued again with her cute, quirky style of vocals. Their rock-pop (and sometimes abstract) songs were not only catchy but interesting to watch and I feel like a damn fool for not buying a CD. I got too caught up, I guess.

The cutest smile in Sackville, i.e. Shotgun Jimmie, closed out the afternoon and got everyone out of their chairs and dancin' on their feet. At one point he got Simone (from $100) to get on up and sing my favourite track off his new record, "Quicksand". I think at this point, everyone in the crowd caught his infectious smile.

The last evening led way to me being stupid and missing Clues (fuck!) but catching lots more. Attack in Black seemed to have a revolving door of guests on stage, including Julie Fader, Julie Doiron, Shotgun Jimmie and Simone (again, from $100). I should note that next to Julie Doiron, Simone seemed to be always popping up on stage with people, and I was glad for it. Her voice is incredible and $100 may be my country girl crush. Whoops. Anyyyyyways, Attack in Black were incredible and I don't care how uncool it is to like Wintersleep, I love 'em! Maybe I have a soft spot since they were the very first bar show I attended, but they bang out a great show and their new songs sounded heavenly.

Our car crew was heading back late that evening, but a little birdy tipped us off and we were told that the Constantines were playing a secret show at George's Roadhouse. We get there nice and early and attempted to secure one of the best spots in the joint. We waited patiently and the rumours were true! And it was all Neil Young covers! The Cons were joined on stage by Ladyhawk guitarist and miss Simone yet again. They danced, sung and everyone took a turn belting out their favourite Neil song. We danced as much as our tiny confines allowed but eventually got shoved out of the way by dumb bitches and pushy photographers so we took our happiness to the parking lot. They ended the night with "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" and we all felt awesome to have just been Sappy'd.

The photos I have are what I could manage to capture between all of the craziness that went down over the weekend. I didn't catch near as much as I wanted to, but sometimes fun gets in the way and it feels so good.