Car Crash, BANG! Already not a great day, now imagine it was your Cutlass Convertible from 1965. Ouch, again, that’s really bad. And now, just to compound the whole thing, imagine your buddies form a band and make a song about it. Just a bucket of salt right into that wound huh? Well that is the unfortunate story behind the debut track of an indie band from Delta called The Ziltches. The band is made up of singer Brian Gorecki, drummer AJ Munro, guitarist Tyler Bohl, and bassist Elliott Jorgensen. Now these four guys have been making music, and making money for charity like no ones business, you gotta check them out.

I saw them at a show they did at the Tsawassen Legion about a year and a half ago. It was a cramped bar, just filled with people. And because it was a bar, it was filled with people in their mid 40’s to 50’s, but because it was an indie rock band made up of high schoolers, the crowd was filled with teenagers as well. It was a strange crowd to be a part of, especially as one of the aforementioned teenagers.

But the band came out on stage, and you would not think these guys could bring down the house. I mean the guitarist was wearing cargo shorts for crying out loud. Doesn’t exactly scream “hard rocker”. But appearances can be, and definitely are, very deceiving. Because the minute the music started, the whole room was swept up in a tornado of sound. It was mostly a cover show, with a few originals mixed in, nothing you haven’t heard of for an indie band, but those covers became originals that’s how much fun this show was. Who could ever imagine that much talent could come from a crew like that?

But you gotta listen to this next part the best part of the show was that’s the charity aspect. I’m certain your life has been affected by cancer, and it sucks, which the band knows well. One of the band members had cancer not long ago, he beat it don’t worry. But that kind of thing sticks with you mentally, so the whole band came together and decided to raise as much money as they could for charity. And they somehow got seven THOUSAND dollars in donations that went to the BC Cancer Foundation. I mean what’s more rock star than that?

These guys put on a great show and I for one can’t wait to see what they do next, how about you?