MIL-SPEC (CAN) + RESTRAINING ORDER (US) + WILD SIDE (CAN)

Mon Jun 16 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm UTC+02:00

Kavka Oudaan | Antwerp

Mendville Shows
Publisher/HostMendville Shows
MIL-SPEC (CAN) + RESTRAINING ORDER (US) + WILD SIDE (CAN)
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RESTRAINING ORDER (us)
Hardcore/punk from with a touch of garage/rock 'n roll to keeps things swinging! Surprisingly, they have managed to blend the straightforward classic 1982-style hardcore sound of Minor Threat, Circle Jerks, Jerry’s Kids with a '77 punk attitude into a fresher sound that leaves no one standing still. Coming home after a sold out show last year!

MIL-SPEC (can)
Since forming in 2016, Toronto's Mil-Spec has developed an inimitable, "intergenerational" hardcore sound and style — tuneful, erudite, allusive, and full of hooks — which they've taken to audiences all over the world, touring Canada, the United States (supporting Militarie Gun, Shelter, and Narrow Head), Europe (supporting Have Heart's 2019 reunion), and Japan. In the process they've become a formidable live act, with a rare three-guitar attack. Their 2023 sophomore LP, Marathon, improves on the melody and melodrama that made 2020's World House a minor pandemic classic. Produced by the band, with help from Ned Russin of Glitterer and Title Fight, Marathon contains nine heartfelt hardcore songs and one EDM monologue about opening for Power Trip at what would be their final U.S. show before singer Riley Gale's untimely death. Classic straight edge hardcore mixed with D.C. Revolution Summer mixed with the Great American College Rock Songbook and a touch of British post-punk — that's Mil-Spec. For fans of Rites of Spring, Husker Du, Supertouch, Leatherface, Turning Point, and Dag Nasty.

WILD SIDE (can)
Wild Side is a Canadian band, Niagara Falls born — Niagara Falls, that garish streetscape crawling with hawkers, hustlers, boosters, and bad boys, that profaned Arcadia where life-affirming vistas of sublime natural beauty yield to an enveloping motley of eye-burning kitsch. Wild Side go at things as they have taught themselves, free-style, and they make records in their own way: first to book studio time, last to submit masters. And now, after five years that felt like ten, Wild Side have released a full-length that commands its listeners to practise scales eight hours a day, comb Kijiji.com for under-the-table cash jobs, and lament once again what the third Warzone LP should have been. For those who were planning to hibernate during this long winter of mawkish ’90s-chug revival, here are 10 songs built on speed, heaviness (in the old sense), deadpan humour, and riffs that check in at the brain’s pleasure centres and never check out — all with a syrupy overlay of flamboyant lead guitar that serves up NWOBHM, Zakk Wylde, Dr. Know, Jay Skin, and most every vibe in between. Topping it off is vocalist Brandon MacFarlane — Wild Side’s heart, soul, brain, and trapezius muscles — who ruminates at length, in an enlightened-everyman vernacular all his own, on eternal subjects such as the paper chase, the human body’s essential frailty, the scourge of fake friends, and what to do when the lights go out. These are the facts of life in the Falls, and this is real hardcore music from the last real city in North America.

LOCATION
Kavka - Oudaan 14 - Antwerpen

Tickets:
In presale: 21,50 (incl. service fee)
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Kavka Oudaan, Oudaan 14,Antwerp, Belgium

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