Killer Night

Friday night was a blast, more fun than I have had in ages.

Left Vernon at 3pm or just before, drove to Kelowna. Did a little clothes shopping at the mall, then visited my parents and had yummy dinner with them.

Drove out to Gallagher's Canyon Golf Course to pick up Shiray. We headed out to Dave's Sports Bar in Rutland, and settled in for the night. I drank ice tea's (driving, no alcohol for me - no big loss there, though), and we shared some nice appetizers.

The concert started late, of course. We can probably thank the opening act, the Sugar Coated Killers, for that, as they arrived late. Music started up at 9pm.

The SCK are a spacey glam-rock band, doing some originals and some covers. Lots of energy, great stage show. Fronted by Sevli Android (once known to me as Rob Salga), who I used to know from church youth group many many years ago.

Killers were followed up by Severed Serenity, whose members include both a long-time friend and my current boss. Surprise surprise, they got a new lead singer, and she is this little blonde girl! That was certainly a surprise, but one that the crowd seemed to like very much. As per usual with a Severed concert, all the musicians in the house rushed forward to be right in front of the stage so they can see the guitar wizards ply their trade. Consequently, I could see nothing - but they sounded great!

Last up was the mighty, the one and only, Thor. Thor dresses up like an Asgardian warrior, he uses a bunch of masks for props, and he conducts a heck of a stage show. He has been doing this since the early 80's, and this show was his first stop on a world tour, ending in Germany. This is his last tour, Thor is retiring, but he introduced his "son", who is taking over for him and carrying on the Thor tradition. Thor was a great show, a lot of fun, he worked the crowd great, he even had me up and rocking with him, it was a real blast. Thor is the man, not the band, so he used three of the members of Severed Serenity as his backing band. It was hilarious to see Steve on stage, who is usually so reserved and so stern looking, to see him rocking out his guitar to Thor tunes and laughing and having a good time too.

After the show, Shiray and I went up and talked briefly to Thor, thanking him for the good show and wishing him well on his world tour. Then we went and talked to Sevli from Sugar Coated Killers. It was good to catch up with him, I don't think I have seen him since the early 90's. We also got to talk to his bassist, Kurt, who seems to have gotten his love-gun set on Shiray; quite the little flirts, those band guys, lol. Oh well, all in good fun.

Other than the "crazy guy" at the bar who kept wanting to talk to me about how women cannot conserve energy, and about washing machines, and about why he is single, not too much happened.

Oh, one thing to note - when trying to impress people by wearing new clothing to a concert, it is best to make sure that one does not have a price tag danging out of one's left armpit! lol. Didn't know that was there until I got home at midnight. Oh well.

It was a fun night. Can't wait to do it again.