Finish What You Started: Tropical Dripps, Moon Destroyer and Cryptids!

The Tropical Dripps welcomed everyone to “Jeff Fest 2013.” Ottawa’s premier surf rock band was at its finest, as they closed down night one of the awesome DIY local punk festival, Finish What You Started Fest. They were on point, noisy, rambunctious and had people dancing up a storm. And there was a lot of people! I was helping Ska Jeff manage the doors at Luneta and he was blown away by the turnout.  “I hope it’s like this tomorrow,” he said rocking a smile from ear to ear.

Moon Destroyer were dropping cosmic, instrumental jams before hand.  The ambient rock band, sort of like if Explosion In The Sky had a punk rock child. I loved this one part where the drum exploded and the band flowed from organized chaos into a grooving bluesy rock beat. (They did not actually explode, that would be a total fire code violation.) I don’t want to take anything away from their set, but I would not do justice to their set of I did not mention the guy trying to unzip the bass players pants a couple of times.

Opening the fest was Cryptids! No, they are not a psychobilly Riptides cover band, they are however great fun punk. I really enjoyed what I heard from them and dig their four song demo (find it below). I really can’t wait for them to get some more music written and see where it goes. Also readers know I’m a sucker for females voices in punk, and they have two female back-ups but I also LOVE ”oohs,” which they had a steady dose of. If you weren’t dancing you were sleeping.

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Day one was a total success and now for day two.  I will be heading to Robot House on Flora for an afternoon house party rager!