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OH IT IS ON: Summer Concert Season 06

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Johnny C:
Fuck yes!

I just got back from Bright Eyes in Saskatoon (three hour commute each way) and it was a very damn good show! Gruff Rhys, guys, is officially pure awesome. He messed up during the first song and the audience was all "YEAH IT'S OKAY YOU STILL ROCK" and he finished it and it was devastatingly beautiful like most of his set was. Also, I won't ruin it, but when he offers to play the song with the birds in it you should accept heartily.

Bright Eyes themselves were pretty good. They played "Train Under Water," "Poison Oak" and a rather spare version of "Lover I Don't Have To Love." Also, Oberst definitely played "First Day Of My Life" solo. I was sad there was no "Bowl Of Oranges" or especially no "Road To Joy" but he's got such a massive catalogue that I guess you can't have it all. It was still pretty radical though.

The venue kinda sucked ass; it was basically part of the city's exhibition grounds and thus was a big concrete room with enormous curtains separating us from backstage and a big beer garden that I hated because it meant that we were in that shitty venue so some promoter could set up a beer garden and make some additional scratch, gahhhhhhhh. And there was no merch. So going into it, there were two strikes, but they managed to hit a decent triple, if not an inside-the-park homerun.

Oh, and most of the audience members were girls, but they weren't complete idiots. The guy in front of me was kind of a different story; after all, Bright Eyes post-Morning is not an appropriate band to throw up the horns for.

I am very excited for Wilco now. Mostly because while Oberst didn't seem to really encourage a lot of audience participation, Wilco's live record indicates they'll be all up on that.

What about you guys? Hit up any of your summer concerts yet? Excited to attend some of them?

Joseph:
No summer concerts yet, I missed out on the Bright Eyes show here, but I don't mind that all too much.  I don't dislike him, but I'm a fan.

  I plan on going to see Neko Case in early July, and as of now, due to age limits at most of the better venues, that's all I'm going to go to at the moment.  I'm out of town for pretty much all of July, and the begining of August, so I'm missing the Vancouver Folk Festival, as well as Broken Social Scene and Sam Roberts with the Stills, which I'm really not happy about.

  However, I do plan on going to the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle in the begining of September, the line up is fairly amazing, so I couldn't resist.

  And damn you on being able to go see Wilco, Johnny.  They somehow decided to hit basically every major Canadian city except Vancouver.  I'm stilly slightly pissed about that.

Johnny C:
Well, I actually have to drive out five hours to Winnipeg to see Wilco, so hell of inconvenience right there. Although I'm surprised they aren't playing as lucrative a locale as Vancouver.

brandie:
I'm debating about buying tickets for the Flaming Lips/Sonic Youth, but I'm having trouble convincing myself to cough up $35 for it.  Which is particularly lame since I had no problem shelling over for Ani Difranco coming up later this month.

KharBevNor:
What's the difference between summer concerts and not summer concerts?

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