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On a cold, Thursday night in Winnipeg the last thing you want to be doing is leaving your house. But the temptation of my new favorite band is too much to resist, so the lady-friend and I head to the Pyramid Cabaret for a night filled with the most fun I’ve had at a rock show in about a year.

Bumping into friends, well wishers and random characters from the Winnipeg music and film community, we anxiously await Kelowna, BC’s Ladyhawk who’ve revived the rock lifestyle of old with stories of beer soaked parties, awe-inspiring high kicks and the bass player’s mammoth head of hair. Eventually, the band takes the stage to what seems like disappointment. Ladyhawk, you see, is a buzz band; but not the buzz band that the art/bar star crowd is here to see tonight. They are touring with alt-prog darlings Black Mountain. Ladyhawk actually gets heckled at some points (much to my embarrassment) but the band play it off like it’s another day at the office. Starting with the opener from their new record Shots, “I Don’t Always Know What You’re Saying” gets the heads bobbing and the hips swaying. The band blows through songs from their two and a half disc catalogue like they’re jamming in their basement, totally confident and improvisational. They make banter with each other and the audience. They seem to be enjoying themselves. They play “S.T.H.D.” (a personal favorite) and “Fear” (a sing-along delight) and prove that the record is, as they have put it “fucking dark.”