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!