I arrived at the Owl just in time for the Void to kick off their tribute to the Ramones, which is more my kind of music. I was pleasantly 
surprised.
They had huge wooden letters spelling The Void set at the front of the stage and they looked the part of the Ramones wearing leather jackets, torn jeans and T-shirts, even trying to speak in New York accents.
Tall, lanky bassist Johnny Little dressed as Ramones lead singer Ramones complete with tight jeans and hippie sunglasses, writhed as he wound himself around the microphone stand.
Jon Vornbrock sported a short black haired wig and played the role of bassist Dee Dee, who he eerily resembled, and completely overkilled the “Did anybody order pizza,” joke from the Ramones movie Rock and Roll High School.
They even did a “Ramones” version of a Void song “North Side” which sounded more like a catchy pop/punk tinged Ramones song than anything else.
Rob Cooper played the role of lead guitarist Johnny Ramone, crashing away at his power chords.
Drummer Dean Wilson sported a Ramones T-Shirt and played Marky Ramone, I guess. The other three joked about being dead and wanting pizza and played entertaining covers of Ramones classics including “Rock and Roll High School.,” which they revisited at the end as well as my favourite “Beat on the Brat,” plus “The KKK Took My Baby Away,” “I Wanna Live,” I Wanna Be your Boyfriend,” “I Just Want to Have Something to Do,” and much more including Blitzkrieg Bop and “Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio.”
They played them quite well, winding things up around 2 a.m.
