{"id":10144,"date":"2015-09-24T20:12:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T20:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=10110"},"modified":"2015-09-24T20:12:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T20:12:37","slug":"live-bait-slim-twiggin-at-the-good-will-on-a-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2015\/09\/24\/live-bait-slim-twiggin-at-the-good-will-on-a-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE BAIT :: Slim Twiggin\u2019 at the Good Will on a Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photos by Kaitlyn Emslie Farrell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Kaitlyn Emslie Farrell<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On Sunday, September 20 at one of our local music hotspots, the Good Will Social Club<\/a>, I had my first Slim Twig<\/a> experience. It was your typical Winnipeg Sunday, with a cool breeze and most people at home dreading the fact that Monday was approaching. A few music lovers dragged their butts out to catch some tunes.<\/p>\n

The night started off with Winnipeg\u2019s own Odanah<\/a>. These local art rockers played it fast and slow to a crowd of Sunday sippers. They\u2019re a group that doesn\u2019t appear to conform to limitations and isn\u2019t easy to predict. It\u2019s hard to know the audience\u2019s true emotions on a day designed for doing nothing. This crowd included Slim Twig and his band mates. It\u2019s always nice to see touring headliners giving their attention to the local openers. Their set, which lasted over 45 minutes, set the tone for a night of mysterious music. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was a short break while the headliners set up and the background music was cut short with Twig\u2019s eagerness. \u201cAre you good? \u2018Cause we\u2019re good,\u201d Twig said to the soundguy. Now at first it seemed that Twig just couldn\u2019t hold back and needed to drown the crowd of less than 25 people in his guitar tones and heavy sounds. But it is possible the intention was \u2018early start, early finish\u2019 as the whole show was over by 11 p.m. I mean, it was a Sunday. <\/span><\/p>\n

He hit the stage with style. We knew this before the music started based on his satin varsity jacket that read \u2018BORN TO RUN\u2019 across the back, long wavy hair, and mustache (you can never be too sure about a guy with a mustache). I wouldn\u2019t mind sitting down with Twig and having a conversation. I bet he\u2019s got a lot of good stuff to say. It\u2019s hard not to notice how passionate he is about what he\u2019s doing. You can see it in his facial expressions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you like instrumental music then you would have loved this show. Each song promised an easy 60% of instrumental parts\u00a0for the guys on stage to jump around to. In fact, the openers had a lot of this too. There was one member of the crowd sitting in a booth reading a book. It wasn\u2019t an act of disrespect, but more of a comfort thing. This reader was just doing their thing with a live soundtrack. That\u2019s pretty cool.<\/span><\/p>\n

The show delivered a heavy rock atmosphere regardless of the stillness of the crowd. The experimental elements heard throughout the newest album <\/span>Thank You for Stickin’ with Twig<\/a> <\/span><\/i>weren’t\u00a0<\/span>very noticeable live. If you are currently unfamiliar with Twig\u2019s music then I would advise you to check out his recordings first because those seem to have more avant-garde effects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank You for Stickin\u2019 with Twig<\/span><\/i> is Twig\u2019s fifth release. The title is ironic, considering the attendance. However, I\u2019d say Twig\u2019s most loyal fan is Twig himself. Despite the tired Sunday he truly gave it his all. He takes great pride in his work, saying that\u00a0\u201cStone Rollin\u2019 (Musical Emotion)<\/a>\u201d was the greatest song title him and his band mates ever came up with.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twig might just be one of those artists you want to keep an eye on over the years. When I try to think of where he\u2019ll be in five or ten years I see him just as I saw him last: on stage. But the stage would probably be a bit bigger, the music a bit weirder, the jacket a bit shinier, and the hair much larger. You might want to stick with Twig.<\/span><\/p>\n

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