shrill thrill

aaah i love today.

i love today because i was so wonderfully granted the night off! that means many lovely things but it especially means that i do not have to work a student night at the pub! ...and that leaves my evening open to see the super-groovy mellotones at the seahorse pub.

my first visit to the seahorse was exactly one week ago when childhood friend m. took me to see the mellotones, his favorite cover band in halifax. i had heard his rave reviews of their past shows but never seemed to get the right nights off in order to experience them for myself. truthfully, i am not a huge fan of most cover bands. mind you, there are a select few cover bands floating around halifax that i genuinely adore. the pub only seems to book cover musicians so i've learned enough about who plays what to know who can get me excited to go downtown. soul kitchen, for example, is my favorite band to play the pub as their talent is huge but their ego is not. anyway, i was a little leary for the mellotones because i felt as if i'd seen what there is to see of cover bands. i had my favorites and that's that.

um, i was completely blown away.

they had about nine people on stage. the singer switched back-and-forth between his vocal chords and his sax. there were a row of brass players and every single person on stage looked to be having the best time. could have been the whiskey but i think i fell in love with a new band last week, and, like a young pup in love, am so freakishly eager to see these fellas play again.

mostly, i'm looking forward to more marvin gaye covers...everyone needs a little more sexual healing anyway.