All Photo Credit: Ashley Bellam

It’s hard to put into words what the TUKAN experience really is, but I’ll try. Let me set the scene. A year and a half ago, during Montreal’s Jazz Fest on July 5, 2024, my friend went to see Berlioz at MTELUS. After the show, she asked the band the classic question: “Where’s the afters?” In what felt like fate, they replied, “We’re going upstairs.” Upstairs was where TUKAN was performing.

It was a gloomy Monday when a line wrapped around the Beanfield Theatre, waiting for Ellie  Rowsell, Joel Amey, Theo Ellis, and Joff Oddie, also known as Wolf Alice, to light up the stage. 

*Warning: reader discretion is advised while reading this article, as the subject matter of death and the holocaust is mentioned often.”

Eleanor The Great  (Currently playing in limited release Cineplex Forum, version originale avec sous-titres français (Cinémathèque québécoise /Montréal, Cinéma Le Clap Ste-Foy/Québec, Le Tapis Rouge/Trois-Rivière,  with a wider release in the coming weeks )

Dir: Scarlett Johansson

Starring: June Squibb, Erin Kellyman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rita Zohar 

Run Time: 1hr38min 

No artist sounds quite like Spill Tab. The genre-blending songs merge alternative pop with jazz nuances. Claire Chica, the creative force behind these entrancing tracks, is a 28-year-old singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Born in Thailand, raised in Paris, and now based in LA, she crafts English and French songs layered with energetic rhythms, desire, nostalgia, and angst.