24 HOURS



THE PROVINCE

It's been a while since I last saw Vancouver's Elizabeth. The band was always really tight and high energy. Now it's even more so, with a finer edge to the group's British post punk-influenced sound. There is no doubt this act is right and ready for bigger venues and tours. It delivers. Particularly the lead guitarist who totally shreds.Elizabeth even got the trees dancing.


THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT

Elizabeth has—perhaps not surprisingly—improved immensely since the first time I saw it it battling things out in the Shindig finals at the Railway Club. A Mohawked dude sporting retro-chequered shorts and an obviously-into-it chick in a blue-satin jump suit did their best to one-up each other in the interpretative-dance sweepstakes as the band gave every indication i t’s outgrown all the early Joy Division comparisons. The beyond-postpunk guitar violence unleashed by guitarists Reggie Gill and Davor Katinic was good. The efforts of Rickenbacker-slinging bassist Rory O’Sullivan was totally great.