Saturday March 29.08
TK's, Aurora, Ontario - EarthHour
fan review by Janis
Another successful Slime Dogs event is in
the books with the band bringing down the house at the end
of winter ’Spring
Fling’ at TK’s Restaurant & Pub in downtown
Aurora. From the start of the night with the glow stick girls
to the end with the table dancing women a fabulous time was
had by everyone.
Credit goes to lead glow stick girl Laura Ivens for kick-starting
the fundraising by selling jazzy glow sticks for the upcoming
Relay for Life, Cancer Fundraiser taking place Friday June
13th in Stouffville, ON.
Although lead singer Michael all star Mangov was still feeling
a bit dizzy he never sounded better. We may have hot new
sound man, young Todd to thank for that. He was getting busy
twisting dials with the jealous hot breath from the ever
sober Roy man Showers at his back. He even had the approval
of hard to please ear Mad Dog Molherino.
The acoustic set, (can we call it that?) found the band....
well not quite unplugged as earth hour came to a close. Candles
on every table was a nice touch, but with half the televisions
on, the lights ablaze and the band half unplugged, the meaning
of Earth Hour was a bit lost on this partygoer. I think we
can take solace in the fact that we were all at least in
one spot and the lights were out at home. We were all glad
to see the beautiful JoJo back and looking, not like a she
Superman, but her usual glowing self, singing and sounding
like an angel (from Slime Dog Hell that is). It would have
been nice to hear just her gorgeous voice sing a tune for
earth hour.
Plans to clear the three tables in front of the band fell
through when a group of people (as it turned out Bubba’s
cheering section) plopped themselves into the chairs and
quickly filled the tables with canters of red wine and trays
of nacho’s.
Many of the gang looked a bit different than at the last
gathering in this establishment to celebrate Halloween. There
was no risk of fire with the handsome fire safety boys
in the house, but what was hot was Lester’s dancing;
who knew the man could shake like Elvis.
 Cheers of "Bubba, Bubba" echoed through the bar
and Bubba rocked it out and saved another horse. Kristen
caught the whole thing on digital video, hold your breath
for this folks.... coming to a website near you will be a
rundown of the whole Slime Dog band set.
The dance floor didn’t quite get the set up as the
waitress’s were not the quickest girls around. Let’s
just say they won’t be winning the restaurant server
race anytime soon. Perhaps it was a good thing everyone stayed
a little thirsty, probably fewer headaches next day, but
it may have affected TK’s nightly take as they couldn’t
seem to bring the drinks quick enough. A few went hungry
as well as tries to flag down the long haired server running
around with one beer on her tray went unheeded. They finally
seemed to get caught up at the end of the night.
The Slime Dogs tunes called out to the dancers in the crowd
and fans squeezed themselves between the tables and the band.
People created their own dance floor as people will do when
the Slime Dogs play. The dancers rocked it out in the small
space they had. With a dancing, bopping crowd squeezing together,
things got a little tight. Especially when a mysterious dancing
Casanova started spinning girls around and managed to tumble
one (who was already less then steady on her feet) into Mike’s
legs and music stand. A collection of song sheets and binders
fell into the band, but they played on. We all know how much
front man Mike enjoys inebriated party goers falling into
him. The band played on and on into the wee hours of the
night accommodating cheers for ’one more’ from
the crowd. Two revellers couldn’t contain themselves
and jumped up on a table knocking glasses to the floor to
table dance to the final echoes of the Slime Dog’s
last tune. The shindig came to a peaceful end with the crowd
piling in taxis and staggering off down Yonge Street. It
would seem things weren’t quite so peaceful next door
Big thanks goes out to everyone who pitched in to set up
and tear down and make the sound happen, to Tina for having
the Slime Dogs back in Aurora and to all the members of the
Slime Dogs for putting on another great show.
We love you
guys! Never stop rocking!
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