It took a few days after I had heard about the senseless fatal shooting
of rock club goer Bailey Saveda before I sat down to write this review.
I had attended a benefit concert for breast cancer research at the Hard
Rock Café in downtown Toronto held the same night.

Sometime between my watching a phenomenal and precociously gifted young
band called Moeraes Fate (Dame) perform on the stage and seeing local favourite Basia
Lyjak do her set, Ms.Saveda, aged 23, was shot to death, a victim of
criminal violence simply because she was in the wrong place at the
wrong time. She had been attending a show across town.
I was completley oblivious to the tragedy. Not merely for the duration
of the show but for the morning and afternoon which followed. Upon
hearing of the sad event I debated whether I even wanted to continue
with writing this review. It gave me considerable pause. But then I
remembered why the show I had attended was held. Ms.Saveda was a young
woman taken before her time. Victims of breast cancer are also almost
exclusively women taken before their time. This was brought home to me
during the show when some members of the bands onstage spoke personally
about a female relation they had lost to the disease.


Dame - now Moeraes Fate - three teenage girls all under the age of 18 performing
with a skill that many rock musicians twice their age cannot equal
opened the show. Quickly one learns upon seeing this power trio to look
past the gimmick of their collective age (48) and find similarities
with the very popular and well-established acts they open for.
At times one can detect similarities to acts like Four Non-Blondes and
Pearl Jam. The band itself draws considerably from legends Pink Floyd.

It has been a difficult year on the local rock scene in Toronto. A fire
ripped through the part of Queen Street West where some of the best
rock clubs are early in the year. A not insignificant member of the
band Oasis recently fell victim to a random wacko who football tackled
him during his performance on a Toronto stage for no apparent reason.
Some clubs have been raided and others have had their liquor licenses
suspended. But that’s rock n roll and that's life. If at some point you
can find something to make you forget about societies ills you are
lucky. Local bands like Dame (now Moeraes Fate) Lysia and Scarl;et Sins,offer a delightful
interlude.