XPost: alt.music.alternative.female, alt.music.independent, alt.music.canada   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Tonight I caught a triple bill at The Ship Pub (still listed in the   
   new phone book as The Ship Inn) here in St. John's,   
   Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, of   The Firewires,   
   Coast Guard and Trimmed Naval Beef.   
      
   First up were The Firewires, a young new trio without   
   a web page yet but they now have a demo.   They have   
   great potential for major success.   The lead singer/guitarist   
   (a young woman named Lindsay) has a powerful voice   
   reminiscent of Sarah Slean/Mae Moore with a touch of   
   John Belushi (Rawhide tinged) and belts out outlaw rock,   
   sort of funk/hillbilly/soul/alt rock with some grunge on some   
   songs.    It was my first time hearing them and I was quite   
   impressed, and Wallace Hammond did a great job on sound.   
      
   Next up were The Coast Guard, and they were great as   
   usual with weaving rhythms and melodies, great   
   songwriting, and soaring wise-little-girl (though she   
   is a strong young woman and not a girl) vocals from   
   Rhiannon Thomas, a Sailor Moon lookalike.  :-)   
   Their newish web page is   
   http://www.coastguardmusic.com/   
      
   Finally up were rap-and-rollers Trimmed   
   Naval Beef who I had not heard before and   
   they do rock and roll and at least two styles   
   of rap all interweaved with loads of humour.   
   They are a trip of drums/bass/guitar and   
   all three sing/rap.   Great party band.   
   Patrick Boyle does the most humour and   
   is also probably the top electric guitar player in   
   town from my ears and also plays trumpet but   
   didn't bring it along tonight.   Their web page is   
   http://www.trimmednavalbeef.com/   
      
   Give them a listen if you like high energy zany   
   hip-hop and some rock.   
      
   David   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)