Monday, February 28, 2011

What a night at "The Owl Acoustic Lounge"

Saturday February 19th saw the band take the stage with Sonis Mcallister and the Barracuda Orchestre again, this time in their home town of Lethbridge.

What can I say, but what a great show, what a great location, what a great crowd.

Let me give you the review from the LA Beat eMagazine (http://labeat.ca/);

(credit to LA Beat and Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor who wrote this) Click here to read the original article.

"battle of the strange between Bubba Tres and The Barracuda Orchestre
Wednesday, 23 February 2011 12:55 Richard Amery

It was a battle of the weird at the Owl Acoustic Lounge, Feb. 19, with local experimental art folk jazz combo Sonis McAllister and the Barracuda Orchestra and Fernie’s Bubba Tres.

Sonis McAllister and the Barracuda Orchestra put on their usual unusual show. They were all dressed in white, applied a variety or percussion.

Sonis McAllister recited his strange poetry through a megaphone while tapping a rhythm on the floor with a 2x4.

In the background, artist David Hoffos played the drums, as Jana MacKenzie added extra drums and cymbals. They added a variety of strings and horns to the music as well and got the crowd involved adding extra percussion.

Bubba Tres was a whole new level of strange — the best kind of strange.

They added a variety of sounds from a couple tubas, French horn, an omnichord and other unusual sounds, coming across as a more modern Velvet Underground.

The frontman, Troy “Big Bubba Cook” sported a black Russian style fur hat and looked like a crazed mountain man as he alternated between strumming a guitar and a pink ukulele.

He sounded like a even more drugged up Lou Reed and Dr. Hook’s Ray Sawyer as he sang about zombies in the snow and two headed crows and a lot more off kilter subject.

Yet I could not take my eyes of them. I only wish I could have heard the lyrics better. It was as entertaining as a hellbound hayride.
— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor"

Wow!

Upcoming shows

March 12th will see the band headlining the 3rd annual Zombie Festival - this year at 'The Central' in Fernie. Bring your best Zombie outfit and be prepared to have a raging good time.

March 18th will see the band break into the Calgary market with a show at the Marquee Room. Listen for information on local Campus radio and on bills posted around.

Bubba is going on a solo tour with Ben Sures (http://www.bensures.com/) in April, so the band will not be performing as the flowers bloom this year.

The Long weekend in August should see the band performing at the Wells BC Music Festival. Let's hope a tour evolves around that performance. Here is their website - hopefully Bubba Tres will be added soon! http://www.artswells.com/line-up

More dates to come, I'm sure.

Wee-Fest 2011

This year's version of Wee-Fest happened on Friday February 18th. Acts as varied as Sonis McAllister and the Barracuda Orchestra (from Lethbridge, a spacey-jazz, spoken-word group), Big Joe Young (blues covers of old standards, with great audience rapport), and of course, Bubba Tres.

Bubba played a solid set (ok, War Pigs was a tad off, but still fun) including such staples as Peanut Butter Tongue, Bigfoot (such a great rocker), Two-Headed Siamese Crow, Specky Spectacular, Zombies In The Snow, and Polka Johnny along with their cover of Like a Virgin, and newcomers Wonder Woman Theme Song, and a cover of Spirit Ditch.

The crowd was subjected to confetti, balloons, an Abominable Snowman, a giant rabbit, and videos - another show not to be missed.

Glad I was there.