Bought The Shirt - Doin' It Saturday
Last week, I had the chance to see a performing act that I've
become endeared to over the past 4 or 5 years - Apostle
Of Hustle. Andrew Whiteman and his trusty sidekick drummer
Dean hit Peterborough last week and rocked the Montreal
House with a latin-infused rock fury. It was almost easy to
forget that Andrew is the lead guitarist of Broken Social
Scene (who sells out massive crowds anywhere) as it was
a very sparse crowd in attendance. My friend Derrick and I
sipped a few suds and watched Andrew and Dean do their
thang as a newly transformed two-piece from the original
3. Right from the get-go, you could tell that these two were
in a trance and so focused on the performance that they
could have been playing to an empty room or a crowd of
thousands. They did their thang. They lit up the stage with
a presence and a sound that was so full, you'd have sworn
there was a band of 6 people up there blasting.
Recently having interviewed Andrew here, I got a guest
listing (well - a partial one that was once again saved by the
drummer), and had a grand old time in the borough of Pete.
Andrew was very chill and talked afterwards for a while
about gear, songwriting, Emily Haines, Broken Social,
bad interviews and lots of interesting topics. Derrick
also had a good time and fired a lot of q's in Andrew's
direction about bands, music, (as Derrick is a member
of 'The Gentlemen Husbands') and oodles of random crap.
All in all, The Apostle once again set the bar high.
