Priestess/The Illuminati w/ CHUBBIE - Dec 8 at Elixir

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Rock Crew Productions and Elixir Nightclub (14 Garrett Street) are very proud to present Priestess and The Illuminati, with special guests Chubbie, on Thursday, December 8. Advance tickets are $6 and on sale now at Brian’s Record Option, Zap Records, Chumleighs, Destinations, Renaissance Music, Elixir, or online at www.rockcrew.ca

“Buzz building. Tight, heavy, punishing. This Montreal band has urgency, huge hooks†- Montreal Gazette

“Okay, Montreal, you were right about these guys – they totally bring the rock and do it with style†– NOW Magazine, NNNN (4 out of 5 ‘N’s) review of Hello Master

“…with the wallop of this debut, they prove that big things are in store. Gas-guzzlin’ rock gets tangled up with some serious songwriting†– Montreal Mirror, Disc of the Week

“Montreal hasn’t heard a straight-ahead, metal-edged, monstrous melodic rock band like this, well, ever… ‘Hello Master’ is solid the whole way through with far too many stand-out tracks to list†– Hour Magazine, 4.5 / 5 stars

Having just released their debut album, Hello Master, to raunchiously raving reviews across the country, Montreal’s balls-to-the-wall Priestess are hitting the road to give you their own live version.

"I like Priestess a lot. To me, they epitomize the escape from banality and redundance in present day rock'n'roll without pretense or gimmickry. It is the positive intensity and true passion with which Priestess conveys a distaste for the mundane that has already built her a reputation as a force to admire and to reckon. Along with guitar riffage powerful enough to brand itself into brain tissue, this band achieves pure sonic bliss through genuine heaviosity and uncompromized melodic hookery."

The Illuminati are not a typical modern band. There is no gimmick. There is only the consuming roar of elegantly crafted rock music. Taking their name from the shadowy secret society purported to control the world, The Illuminati are the majority share of the now-defunct garage metal band Tchort.

They offer a refreshing return to musical virtuosity - conjuring wild spectres rock 'n roll's greatest legacies. Sneaky details like moments of metal-blues fusion and impeccably written noodley jazz codas recall a time before today's genre-bound constraints. It is time to expect more music. It is time to return to a sense of wonder. It is time for The Illuminati.

Chubbie was one of Kingston’s strongest local acts. They relentlessly worked the punk and indie rock scene in Ontario and Quebec, and were featured on Ottawa’s The New RO, and in the Ottawa Citizen. Chubbie won X-FM’s “Women Who Rock†contest in Ottawa while gigging to support their first EP “The World’s A Bitch Todayâ€. The EP was recorded in Kingston and released independently. They broke up a while ago, and just got back together in October with members of I Hate Sally and The Massacre.

www.priestessband.com

www.theilluminati.net

www.elixirnightclub.com

OTHER SHOWS COMING SOON:

Chris Koster & The Lonely w/ Bullmoose - Dec 15 at Elixir

Kyra & Tully, The Lady Racers, Derek Downham & Erick Turnbull - Dec 22 at Elixir

Great Lake Swimmers & Christine Fellows w/ Stephanie Leah Gora - Jan 12 at Elixir

Brian Borcherdt & Wax Mannequin w/ Nich Worby - Jan 27 at Clark Hall Pub

Ember Swift - Feb 9 at Elixir

Fred Eaglesmith - Feb 23 at Elixir

Metric - Feb 28 at Grant Hall