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“At 2 a.m. you can’t come home after a night out and act… but you can write a song.”  – Tim Robbins.

We tend to return to the roost after a night out and eat microwaved pizza and fall asleep on the couch, but we may take a page from Tim Robbins’ songbook after hearing his first album, Tim Robbins & the Rogues Gallery, released at the tender age of 51 (what else is a guy to do after breaking up with Susan Sarandon?). In fairness, Robbins has been fiddling around with a guitar for a long time, with a musical family, experience co-producing the soundtrack to Dead Man Walking, and under-the-radar shows in small venues. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the folksy, storytelling songs by Tim Robbins & the Rogues Gallery are actually really good. We won’t miss his Montreal debut tonight at Club Soda.

But we’re probably just going to pack it in with a poutine and leave the song writing to Tim.

Tickets ($32.50) available online and by phone 514-286-1010. Wednesday July 13, 8 p.m. at Club Soda, 1225 St. Laurent Blvd., Montreal, www.timrobbins.net