It was more than a spectacular delight to see Germans perform in Toronto for the first time in over a year. The band had gone through rough patches with their old label, Arena Rock. Now, with less members but the same sweaty fun, Germans are back with some new tunes and some old habits (ie. broken strings, but who complains when you have someone to entertain you by balancing a guitar on their chin?)

Germans plan to play more shows now that frontman Leon Taheny has some time away from drumming with Sebastian Grainer. To those who want to hear new Germans put down onto a shiny recorded disc, get your hopes up because it’s likely to happen sometime soon!

SummerWorks is done for another year! The 2nd year which involved a music portion seemed to fair positively to the all-ages crowd that had attended each night. Despite sweaty confines, people enjoyed themselves and that was pretty-much the point. Respect goes out to Eric Warner for booking all the bands and dealing with tech/band/whatever problems that came from every direction. Also, to all of the SummerWorks volunteers (in and out of the Theatre Centre), you all did a great job keeping the program going every night.

Looking forward to next year? I’d say so.

For a detailed write-up on the festival, visit Narratives.