AUXILIARY GLOW: CLOSING NIGHT

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5
9:00 pm to 2:00 am
All ages, FREE

AUXHAUS, ROTARY BANDSHELL

Cham

Cham is a quartet from Edmonton, Alberta. Their music blends proto-punk often with angular guitar, lyrically focusing on destructive personal behaviour expressed through irony. They stray from subject to subject exploring different facets of subversive lifestyles. Their songs are packaged into compact pop songs learning towards 70’s east coast garage and the fractured compositions of post punk.

Shukov

Edmonton’s Shukov started as the bedroom guitar pop project of singer Tim Biziaev. After releasing a couple EPs the project has matured into a powerful four piece indie rock band with their first LP, Healthy Somethings, now successfully behind them. While the addition of the band has brought a new energy to Shukov’s songs, the earlier sensibilities still remain: anthemic choruses are delivered humbly, swaggering instrumental sections build slowly out of off hand melodic flourishes, and a devotion to subtlety is observed that allows this band to pull off probably the only multi-suite guitar solo this author has ever enjoyed, never mind been moved by. Shukov performs detailed, thoughtful music aimed directly at your soft spots.

https://shukov.bandcamp.com/album/healthy-somethings

Bar and food provided by Red Beard.

Photos: Devon Lindsay