Hardcore/Punk
Grimelda Electrifies Toronto’s Bovine Sex Club as Part of NXNE [Photos]
Saskatchewan noise-punk brigade Grimelda brought both fun and fury to the Bovine Sex Club in Toronto as part of North By Northeast.
“What the hell was THAT?” This was shouted by someone in the crowd at the Bovine Sex Club immediately after the last note of the set was played and was an apt assessment of what was just witnessed.
Saskatoon punk/alt pop/rock duo Grimelda rolled into town for night two of the North By Northeast music festival in Toronto. The small confines of the Bovine Sex Club was the venue. Dressed in their finest ladies’ sundresses, drummer/yeller Blair Colwell and guitarist/yeller Skyler Cafferata (their terms) took the stage for 40 minutes of utter mayhem. Touring behind their 2023 EP It’s So Feeling When You Rock, the band also worked in tunes from their previous releases.
Self-proclaimed lovers of bad punk, bad pop, and bad metal, Grimelda pours it all into a cauldron and comes up with a feast for the senses. Pigeonholing the band into one nice little package is impossible. Inside each tune, it’s like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. And elements that have no business being together are displayed in all their glory. It works. Somehow.
The guys make a hell of a full soundscape live for just being a duo. With both on yelling duties, it leaves Skyler to venture out to the crowd mic stand and guitar in hand for some crowd participation. At one point a fan was wailing into the mic with Skyler hammering away on the guitar. Blair also took his turn in the crowd with his 100-foot mic cord and a couple of bags of dollar-store tinsel-covered noisemakers tossed out for the fans to blow for the last song.
Ingredients from the likes of Jack White, Flaming Lips, Ramones, Layne Staley, Red Hot Chili Peppers and all manner of other glam sludge metal tropes were on full display. Standouts from the show included “Dirty L’ll Dirtbike” and “Dootin’” both from the new release.
Check the band out if they’re in your neighbourhood. Live music shouldn’t be boring, and Grimelda gets it. “What the hell was that,” indeed!
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