NXNE Day Three: Astro-men, Shadowy Planets, and God’s Vagina

By Alex Nino Gheciu

Ghost Bees with members of Timbre Timber at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom. Photo by Mario Lunardo.

Ah, NXNE Friday nights. The elation, the madness, and the excessive ingestion of alcohol and drugs leading to fitful moments of confusion and disarray. Team Torontoist was in the thick of it all last night, observing Easy Tigers in their natural habitat at Sneaky Dee’s, helping surf-inclined extra-terrestrials better integrate with the human race at the Horseshoe, and peeing our pants in the dark at the Gladstone Ballroom. The latter, of course, refers to NOW‘s showcase, which saw Hamilton folk-twins Ghost Bees (soon to be renamed Tasseomancy) perform a dark, foreboding set while accompanied by spooky blues fetishists Timber Timbre and a clique of stone-faced women covered in shamanic body paint.
Out in the Torontoist Twitterverse, some of us experienced Queen West blackouts, some found late day sunlight, while others learned of the virtues of deific vaginal flatulence:
8:30 p.m. Dee’s in daylight is like being a kid and see your teacher outside of school. Or the Purolator guy outside of work, who is here btw wtf!
10:24 p.m Blackout at the Horseshoe! Legendary power outage! Beers still too expensive!
12:05 a.m. If you beleive in UFOs and aren’t at Man or Astroman? you don’t believe. CGB Spender is front row
1:06 a.m. Forget Broken Social Blah. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet are THE Toronto band. MOAM? know it!
1:26 a.m. Overheard: “so what did mm/dd/yyyy sound like?” “God’s vagina queefing.”
Need help planning the rest of your NXNE bender? Peep our hyper-expansive NXNE Guide. Or just go back to sleep and come back to us when your hangover’s gone.