The Dirty Love Band set to play The Office
Esa Keltamaki
Copy Editor & Master Jouster
Music fans are in for a treat. The Dirty Love Band’s [DLB] cross-Canadian tour makes its way to Thunder Bay this week.
This Thursday, April 1st, The Dirty Love Band will rock the downtown bar The Office. The show will mark the band’s first appearance in Thunder Bay. Hopefully, the first of many.
The London-based band comes to town with consecutive Most Popular Blues/R&B Group London Music Awards. If the DLB wins a third this year, they will be inducted into the London Music Hall-of-Fame. The fivesome is also a current Fan Favourite nominee for the Jack Richardson Music Awards.
A brand-new video for Moon Boy, the first single from the band’s recently released second album Generation Sex will also be available for preview at the show.
The well-liked DLB, a group that began five years ago with guitarist Dennis Habel and keyboardist Kent Merkley, is rounded-out by drummer Teddy Feica, multi-instrumentalist Sean Thomson, and bassist Lucas Johnson. Johnson, who joined the band for the current tour, works in former Our Lady Peace guitarist Mike Turner’s The Pocket Studio.
The group is known for wild, energetic shows involving “gang buster vocals” and keyboardists nearly falling from the stage. The band’s raucous tunes extend from traditional blues tracks to rock and punk influenced blues; their catalogue of music is rife with smash-tastic awesome.
In addition, opening for the DLB is… you? The Office will be holding an open-mic night prior to the main event, so feel free to bring a guitar and hop up on stage.