Gillian Moore

Two of T&T's top bands teamed up for a mem­o­rable night of mu­sic and good vibes at Casa de Ibiza in Wood­brook last week Thurs­day night.

In fact, the show was such a hit, a re­peat per­for­mance was "de­mand­ed" by fans, at the same venue, last evening. First up on the night was 12 the Band, led by charis­mat­ic lead singer Shel­don Hold­er. Just back from a suc­cess­ful tour of New York, the unit was in fine form. Hold­er was in his el­e­ment, look­ing fit and fired up, his con­fi­dence ra­di­at­ing from the stage. The band played some ten songs from their reper­toire, in­clud­ing the ti­tle track of their lat­est al­bum Streets & Av­enues, Saga War­riors, Chil­dren of the Twi­light, Pros­per and a cov­er of Spar­row's 70s hit, Car­ni­val Woman. They in­tro­duced one of their sig­na­ture songs, Imag­i­na­tion, with John Lennon's Imag­ine�but with spe­cial lyrics cen­ter­ing on T&T's im­pend­ing elec­tions.

The ca­pac­i­ty au­di­ence re­galed 12 with loud ap­pre­ci­a­tion, and more was yet in store. Kin Sib­ling Ri­val­ry was next up, and turned the en­er­gy up even fur­ther with their dub-rock sound. The crowd went wild, as the band, who re­cent­ly re­turned from a tour of Mi­a­mi, belt­ed out song af­ter song. Vo­cal­ists Ki­wan (Ki­wi) Lan­dreth-Smith, Michael (Wa­jang) Abra­ham, and Adam (Mar) An­drews took turns on lead and back up du­ties, de­liv­er­ing songs in­clud­ing Trip In­to Baby­lon, Blood a Run, Rain, Cold Love, Walk­ing Across the Sky and Pharoah.

Fans sang along and danced the rest of the evening away to the mu­sic as Kin rocked out. (GM)