This past weekend I trawled around the sights and sounds of the LOLA festival. I used my status as a community radio host to get some interviews with various folks (festival director Andrew P Francis, visual artist Mr Ghosty and Constantines singer Bryan Webb). I also managed to record a few special LOLA performances, and there’s even some pictures and videos to enjoy!
As can be expected when one lives so close to Toronto, there are a lot of shows (that is, concerts) coming up that I really want to see.
Yes.
Some I want to see more than others.
Italicized shows have been attended. (Parenthesized shows mean I probably won’t go, but are noteworthy). Starred shows I have tickets to.
Here’s […]
From Sept 17-21, I saw four of the best concerts of the year so far. Following is a lengthy but brief account of U2, Lal, Peoples Republic, Saul Williams, Amina, Sigur Ros, Annie and Royksopp live in Toronto and Hamilton over four sweetly consecutive days.
The Organ, Controller.Controller Live at The Underground in Hamilton - October 22, 2004
The Organ
Controller.Controller
Explosions in the Sky wsg Adem Live at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto - October 11, 2004
Adem
Explosions in the Sky
Last night I had the shit kicked out of me by the Arcade Fire.
In the afternoon Colin and Amy came up and they, I, and Brian saw the play ‘The Love List’ which had Colin’s uncle in it (so we got 2 free tickets which made it quite worthwhile). It was very funny, light-hearted, […]
The Arcade Fire wsg Heston Rifle, Belle Orchestre Live at The Underground in Hamilton - October 02, 2004
my camera became a bit of a community commodity this time, so only most, and not all, of the pictures were taken by my own hands
Heston Rifle
Belle Orchestre
THE ARCADE FIRE
The Sadies wsg Rick White Live at Call The Office in London - September 24th, 2004
Rick White
The Sadies
Expectations can be a real bitch. I’d been keenly looking forward to the Ted Leo show at Call the Office for a rather long time. It was a strange situation: I found out they were playing at CTO a month and a bit ago, and the name sounded familiar, so I looked into […]
Ted Leo/Pharmacists wsg The Reputation Live at Call The Office in London - July 17th, 2004 - Review
The Reputation
Ted Leo/Pharmacists
Manitoba wsg Junior Boys Live at Call The Office in London - June 19th, 2004
Junior Boys
Manitoba
THE UNICORNS Live at Call The Office in London - June 1st, 2004
This was one of the more disappointing concerts I’ve been to. I did have high expectations, though.
And one bonus, out of focus (because I forgot to use the flash) picture of the anti-racism consortium held on stage during the end of the […]
Quannum is an underground hip hop record lable, and my favourite one at that. At least for this show, Quannum consisted of: Blackalicious (Gift of Gab produced by Chief Xcel), Latyrx (Lyrics Born, Lateef the Truthspeaker), Lifesavas (Vursatyl, Jumbo the Garbageman), plus solo performances in various capacities by most of those involved, and other […]
I think I mentioned yesterday that i’ve really been into The Decemberists lately. Sunday was basically taken up by me falling in love with that thing they do. Songs that tell stories, often intriguing, varied and historical stories (one of the things I like about Nick Cave) which is something I love to […]
THE MATADORS Live at the Corktown Tavern in Hamilton - March 27, 2004
“Those pictures of ‘the midget blow-job queen’ are incredible! Great job!!!” - Joel “Hooch” Perkins