Sunday Feb 17 @ Sneaky Dee’s, 1am

aka Prince Nifty, Nif-D, N!fty, N.I.F.T.Y., Matt Schmidt, Matt Schmidth, John Wayner, Matt Smith and one-third of your favourite disbanded band, Les Mouches. Nifty is a man of many faces, and his recent Blocks Recording Club release “A Sparrow! A Sparrow!” is a haunting portrait of all those faces staring at you and commanding you to dance or be thrown over the edge or to dance while being thrown over the edge. Never playing the same song twice and bent on creating beauty and instantly destroying it, each live Nifty performance invites your soul up for wine, shows you its record collection, fucks your brains out, and then shows you the door with a cigarette and a really good diary entry. — Kevin Parnell