Montreal has seen its fair share of musical royalty over the years, and it's most recent was the founding band of the 1990's Riot Grrrl movement, Bikini Kill, who took the stage on Wednesday night at a sold out MTelus. Lead singer Kathleen Hannah told the crowd how in the early days of the band they would often get heckled and deal with all kinds of harsh comments from concert goers just for being women who dared to play punk rock music. We've certainly come far from that point, and Kathleen herself said that she has mellowed on stage as well. Once know to stage dive onto hecklers, she said that the band have even reworked a few songs to deal with their less confrontational nature. Even with a few little lyrical changes, the songs themselves have not lost any of their vitality or punch. The inspired countless
women to pick up a guitar and rock out, and for that, they have garnered a great deal of respect. This is another of those COVID shows that ended up being delayed a few times, but patience proved again to be a virtue as those years melted away in mere seconds as the guitars began to roar. Though the band broke up back in 1997, they've reformed a few times over the past few years in order to play some shows. There haven't been any rumblings of new music, but you can't go wrong with their back catalogue. The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 6400 at 24mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 6400 at 30mm. Here are several more photographs that I took of their performance.
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