HE SAID

By: Kenny MacDonald

The Exit Strategy

I demure from buying too many band t-shirts, but I cant resist wearing TES' yellow one with the sign language diagrams....I keep staring at that line drawing, what ARE those hands doing?!?  I watch and listen to lead vocals Mark Costantino's performance the same way.  The same affable guy who enjoys his beer, quietly standing on a wall at Mohawk Place can turn wolvie-bezerker on stage (and sometimes in the audience), belting out songs and lyrically smacking personal demons.  Speaking of the Failures' Union, Tony Flaminio also appears in this Fugazi-inspired rock band.  The other two members, Tim Turcott-drums and Steven J. Kabza-guitar now live in Philly and NYC, respectively so every TES show you see is like a little reunion show.