Being from Montreal, you learn very quickly that there is a negative connotation associated with the word 'Toronto'. Luckily there are always exceptions to the rule, and near the top of the list of my favourite things to come out of the Queen City are the awesome ladies known as The Anti-Queens. They've been coming so often to the city over the last few years that we might as well adopt them. I always call them one of my COVID discoveries. Just before the dark days of 'The Plague', I discovered The Anti-Queens on the radio thanks to their monster hit, 'Worse Than Death'. They played an intimate show sponsored by local radio station CHOM 97.7 FM that I wasn't able to get in to, but I figured that they would be back around soon enough. That 'soon enough' quickly turned out to be three years. My schedule never seemed to match
during their previous visits, but that finally changed this past week when they played the Théâtre Beanfield, as one of the opening bands at the Bowling For Soup show. There have been a few roster changes since 2019, but the core of the band, singer Emily Bones and guitarist Valerie Knox, remain and still kick much posterior. Their website describes The Anti-Queens as 'ultra hard-working, punked up rock n' roll
quartet of super high-powered women.' That is absolutely the truth when you see them up on stage. The treated the crown to a mix of older hits and a preview of a few of the songs that will be appearing on their new album, 'Disenchanted', which is due to be released in May. I for one, and everyone else who was at the show, certainly can't wait. The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 24mm. Here are several more photographs of The Anti-Queens taken during their performance.
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