Meanwhile, Cousin Harley was turning the Vine Street stage into a reasonable facsimile of the Yale on a Thursday night.
One of those could-have-been-a-contender stories. I had some trouble with the likes of him last year, due to some sunstroke-induced hallucinations, so I made a mental note to stay in the shade as much as possible, and to keep reminding myself that it’s only a dude in a costume.Īs for Cinderpop, the band's tightly played and well-crafted indie-pop tunes made me wonder why they seem to have never quite caught the ears of anyone outside of Vancouver. I also spotted my first anthropomorphic animal, Leo the Lion. In contrast, B-Monster’s trashy blend of punk, surf, and distorto-boogie, on the other hand, is so back-to-basics that frontman John Lee plays a guitar that has one pickup and a single knob on it.īy 2:04 I had wandered away, through a stretch of West 4th Avenue where nothing actually seemed to be happening, to find the local music-scene veterans in Cinderpop already playing on the Balsam Street stage. When it finally launched into its set a few minutes after that, it became obvious why the sound check had taken so long: the giant wall of speakers behind the band was actually a functional amplification system and not merely a prop.Talk about overkill. In fact, the black-clad trio was still sound checking, half an hour after its scheduled start time. When I showed up at the Stephens Street stage at 1:42 p.m., the band was playing its first of six sets of the day. But if it had been, B-Monster would have taken home a prize for endurance, if nothing else.
I mean that literally: there was no contest. No contest: the prize for the hardest-working band at the second edition of Khatsahlano! Music + Art Festival went to B-Monster.
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