December 2 2002

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Grudge Match! Local Scene Comes to Life with a Vengeance!

By Kathleen De Vere

Is the local rock and roll
scene dead in Prince George?
Local bands like Ceremony,
Transgressor and We Killed
Him would say it’s not, and the
proof arose on November 16th
when those bands got togeth-

er and played an incredible
show at the YAP office.

For the uninitiated, the usual
local show is held in the
cramped space of Growlies
Pizza, located downtown on
3rd avenue, and while they’re
staged with good intentions,

there often isn’t enough space
to have a really good show.
The “Grudge Match” show, as
it was advertised as on the
posters around UNBC had
over 160 people attend, a
stunning success for the jaded
local scene.

The evening opened with
fresh blood in the form of
Transgressor, who played their
very first show in front of a live
audience that evening.
Transgressor are all under 20,
and don’t have too much musi-
cal experience, but they played

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incredibly well, considering the
circumstances.

Next up was Ceremony, and
let me tell you, this band will
make you smile. Ceremony
are trying to bring back cock
rock in a retro Danzig kind of
way. Clad in tight leather pants,
they took the stage, deter-
mined rock out. Ceremony
| plain and simple, are fun.
They’re quasi glam rock, but
slightly menacing at the
same time. Ceremony’s
vocalist Matt is quite good,
and brings to mind other
darkly seductive vocalists
like Danzig and Peter Steele.
Ceremony also put on a fan-
tastic stage show, with the
bass player Sasa impressing
all the women in the audi-
ence with his sweet stage
moves. The highlight of the
set was their cover of ‘Send
me an Angel’ which was not
only cool, it was really well
played, definitely rocking the
house.

The headliner of the show
was We Killed Him, a band
| that have been together for
over a year and half, but
have only played a handful
of shows, due to the lack of
venues. The benefit of this is
that We Killed Him is an
incredibly tight and talented
rock outfit. We Killed Him are
riff rock in the style of
Queens of the Stone Age,
with some funk thrown in for
good measure. We Killed
Him captured the attention of
the audience with their
straight ahead rock style,
managing to get the audi-
ence banging their heads in
time with the beats.
Frontman Jeremy captivated
the audience, with his pas-
sionate and powerful vocals,
and brought a really unique
twist to We Killed Him’s
cover of Led Zeppelin’s
Immigrant Song. Rather that
try to unsuccessfully copy
the higher register of Robert
| Plant, Jeremy sung the song
in a lower register, without
loosing the original great-
ness of the tune.

All in all, “Grudge Match”
was excellent, and the next
time you're looking for some-
thing to do on a weekend,
consider checking out one of
these fine local bands.