The Digital Grotto


Good god are there a lot of pictures in this gallery--73 in total, which is one below my record (Evaporators show, if you're wondering). For this show, I had three bands to worry about. Well, I missed the Skinny because I was over at another show taking pictures of Death by Dawn, but I took a lot of pictures of the Skinny girls drinking and flashing me. And let's not forget the Drastics and Von Zippers.

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When I got there, I couldn't find Jenn, who was supposed to be there. The first person I ran into was John Rubuliak. We went to a United Nations camp together, SUNIA. While there, we met White Thunder, a local right-wing bigot who goes to the U of A.

Then I ran into Rhoneil.

The Drastics!!

There's that crazy girl.


Here's Four-Fingered Mike.

And Phil Duperron, my counter-part from Vue Weekly.


The Skinny!


I was trying to get a good picture of Phil, and I don't think he ever noticed. In this picture, it looks sort of like Four-Fingered Mike is taunting Phil, but I think he was talking to somebody else.


The band has stopped, and now we're all waiting around for the Von Zippers.

Jebus finally showed up.

And oh my god! Emilia! This girl works at AP!RG, the only department of the Students' Union more despised by the executive committee than the Gateway. And check out Stephan in the background.

She took this picture.

I don't know who these people are, but I wanted to take a better picture than Emilia.


It's Stephen the Angry Notley!

And there's Erin, working. Too bad.

Gaah! Emilia/Amelia from the Skinny flashes the camera!

The Von Zippers

My camera started screwing up and taking 2-second exposures no matter what I told it. I was worried, but I bested the beast.


This guy has the best guitar face ever.


At this point, Jenn told me to take close-ups. Well, I was planning on it anyway.

After a while, a fourth member joined them on harmonica, which is too small to see behind his hands.


See if you can put these celebrity cameos in order: Todd Rocket from Wednesday Night Heroes, Chris Andrich from Velvet Grotto, Mick Sleeper and his muu-muu, and the Great Pumpkin.