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Garcin:
Thought it might be nice to have a live thread for people to leave impressions re: concerts they recently attended -- not only the performance, but also the crowd, the venue, etc.

Just saw Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at Horshoe Tavern in Toronto.  Great performance, lots of energy & enthusiasm, which is unexpected because the band seems relaxed to an extreme point.  I like Alec Ounsworth's voice although for the life of me, I can't articulate why.  Seems to follow two rules: don't enunciate too much, and sound vaguely British.  Anyway, it works for me, and it worked for the crowd too, since everyone was pretty into it despite the fact that the crowd seemed to be made up largely of soused scenesters.  

In short, great concert, although the venue is a schizoid combination of tiny floor with tables (and table service!) behind it on the right side -- so most of the crowd gets funnelled to the left.  One of those venues where it makes sense to take a spot near the stage after the last opener & stay there, since it must really suck to be at the back.

Also, my brother says he saw no less than three BSS members there, which I can neither confirm or deny since I have no idea what they look like.  Kind of makes sense though -- I mean what else is there to do in Toronto on a Saturday night.

Gryff:
Just saw David Kilgour on the weekend in a dive bar in Christchurch called the Media Club. This venue is like a rundown working men's club complete with poker machines and sports on a tiny-ass television. the guy who owns it obviously has no clue about any of the music that gets played there... It's pretty cool.

Kilgour was touring his new album Frozen Orange which I heartily recommend to all you Clean and Yo La Tengo fans if you haven't heard it already.

The crowd was pretty small but the music was amazing. Chilled out, country freckled pop songs in that anasuming Kilgour way. A good time, basically.

TheSmirkster:
It's been a while, but I saw Reel Big Fish and Catch22 a while back at the Fillmore in Frisco.  It was a pretty awesome show, Catch22 was rocking like no other, and Reel Big Fish seemed to play forever, which I had no problems with, especially since they played mostly older stuff.  And who can beat the stink of sweaty ska kids?

This last weekend I went to a really shitty show, and left halfway through the first band.  They were this Metallica cover band.  And the lead singer, was basically talking, talking Metallica, it was so fucking lame.  I left the parking lot backwards in udder disgust.

Borondir:
I went to a show in the Student Union last night, the headliner was Allister, but one of the opening bands was a fun 80's style hard rock band. I stayed for most of their set before I left. They had a lot of energy and were really fun to watch, but the crowd was quite tame. There was probably only 40 people there for their set, and most stood with arms folded, though they did cheer at the end of each song. the venue was simply a stage set up in the end of the great hall, which was sort of an indifferent place for a show, not too bad, not too great. I left because I hate pop punk and had better things to do like hang out with the person I went with.

La Creme:
Last Sunday, I went to Reggaenight at the Hollywood Bowl. While 2 of the acts (Culture, Israel Vibrations) were pretty generic roots reggae (that means still pretty  awesome), and one act was total shit* (Maxi Priest), The second band up was one of my favorite ska bands, Hepcat. I expected a good show out of them. What I got was a FUCKING AMAZING SHOW. They have a ton of energy, three amazing singers, a great horns section, solid rhythm, great songs, and a great live vibe. They played just over an hour of some of the best ska and rock-steady I have ever heard ever.

If you get a chance to see Hepcat, do not pass it up. Even if you're not big into ska. It's an amazing show.


* But his guitar player (also sometimes plays with Fishbone) was totally fucking roof-off-blowing incredible. RAWK!

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