Made my way to Rochester this past weekend to see Ryan Adams & The Cardinals play at the Auditorium. A very nice venue, in a very sketchy town. An armed security guard in the Wendy’s (the only place we could find to eat dinner at) was a first. Anyways, after eating we headed to the venue. Our seats were perfect. Dead centre, about halfway back just before the balcony overhang started. Though we didnt use our seats that much since everyone was standing. Ryan and crew got things started around 9pm and played for almost 90 minutes before taking a 10 minute intermission. They came back on stage and played for another 30 minutes. We were waiting for an encore but i guess because of the 11pm curfew it didnt happen. All in all, it was a great show and well worth the drive from Toronto. Looking forward to a hometown show next year.

Setlist: (117:23)
Set I:
01 Cobwebs
02 Two
03 Come Pick Me Up
04 Magick
05 Wonderwall (Oasis)
06 Fix It
07 The Sun Also Sets
08 Off Broadway
09 Peaceful Valley
10 Bartering Lines
11 Goodnight Rose
12 Go Easy
13 Dear John
14 Mockingbird
15 Natural Ghost
16 Freeway To The Canyon

Set II:
17 Crossed-Out Name
18 Let It Ride
19 Please Do Not Let Me Go
20 Everybody Knows
21 When The Stars Go Blue
22 What Sin
23 I See Monsters

Some pictures are located here.

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Links: website | myspace | fan site | live music archive

Tags: Live Music Archive, Recording, rochester, Ryan Adams

Sigur Ros performed last night at Massey Hall to a full house and it was one of the best shows all year. The band had my attention for the whole 90-odd minutes they were on stage. The band started out slow, almost in complete darkness, and picked up the pace. They would again slow things down only to erupt and send waves of beautiful noise towards us. My favourite part of the night was the encore. Illgresi was beautifully performed and Gobbledigook, at the request of Jonsi, had us all standing up and clapping along throughout the whole song. For the finale huge plumes of confetti fell upon us like snow.

Hopefully someone recorded the show as i didnt take my gear with me.

Setlist:
01 Heysatan
02 Glosoli
03 Ny batteri
04 Vid Spilum Endalaust
05 Hoppipolla
06 Med blodnasir
07 Festival
08 Fljotavik
09 E-bow
10 Inni
11 Saeglopur
12 Popplagid

Encore:
13 Illgresi
14 Gobbledigook

Thanks to the Sigur Ros forum for the setlist.

Reviews: chromewaves

Parachutes: website | myspace
Sigur Ros: website | myspace

The Pack A.D. stopped by Criminal Records for an instore performance last Friday afternoon. They played for about 40 minutes before hitting the road for a show in London later that night.

Setlist:
01 Snow
02 Gold Rush
03 Build
04 Oh Be Joyful
05 Making Gestures
06 June
07 Dont Have To Like You
08 Stalker Blues
09 Blackout
10 Whats Up There > Cabin

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Links: website | myspace
Buy Stuff: Best Buy, Maple Music

Thanks to Maya and Becky as well as the guys at Criminal Records for letting me record, again!

There was a full night of music at the Horseshoe Tavern this past Thursday. Starting the night off was Shitt Hott, who were playing their last show. After them was the Schomberg Fair, followed by The Pack A.D. The Speaking Tongues closed the night but i left before their set because it was a work night, unfortunately.

Shitt Hott played a bunch of songs for their final show, regrettably im not that familiar with them so its going to take some time to fill out the setlist.
Setlist:
01 ?
02 ?
03 ?
04 ?
05 ?
06 ?
07 ?
08 ?
09 ?
10 ?
11 ?
12 ?
13 Law & Order
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The Schomberg Fair took to the stage quickly and jumped right into their fast paced set. They played a full set which included some covers of some old gospel tunes.
Setlist:
01 Dark Was The Night
02 Magdalene
03 ?
04 Poor Me
05 Last Train
06 This Is The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance (Sinead O’Connor)
07 Aint No Grave (unknown)
08 ?
09 ?
10 John The Revelator (Blind Willie Johnson)
11 ?
12 Wade In The Water (Unknown)
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The Pack A.D., a bluesy garage rock band from Vancouver consisting of Becky Black on guitar and vocals and Maya Miller on drums were up next.
Setlist:
01 Snow
02 Gold Rush
03 Build
04 Oh Be Joyful
05 Making Gestures
06 June
07 Dont Have To Like You
08 Stalker Blues
09 Blackout
10 Whats Up There > Cabin
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Links:
Shitt Hott: website | myspace
Schomberg Fair: website | myspace
The Pack A.D.: website | myspace
The Speaking Tongues: website | myspace

Tags: horseshoe tavern, Recording, schomberg fair, shitt hott, the pack ad

I made my way to the Music Hall last week to catch the Final Fantasy show. Opening the show was Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon, Doveman, and Nadia Sirota. They all took turns doing eachothers’ songs and played for alot longer than i had expected. Around 90 minutes. After them was Owen Pallett aka Final Fantasy. He played for about an hour doing a mixture of old songs and some news ones that are on his two new EPs coming out this fall.

Another review, some pictures, and a few more tracks from the show can be found at Bootlog

Setlist:
01 ?
02 The Lamb Sells Condos
03 The Man With No Ankles
04 Cockatrice
05 The Butcher
06 Flare Gun
07 ?
08 ?
09 Many Lives > 49 MP
10 He Poos Clouds
11 This Is The Dream Of Win & Regine
12 Lewis Takes Off His Shirt

Encore:
13 Hey Dad
14 Song Song Song

Links:
Nico Muhly: website | myspace
Sam Amidon: website | myspace
Doveman: website | myspace
Nadia Sirota: website | myspace
Final Fantasy: website | myspace

Tags: doveman, final fantasy, music hall, nadia sirota, nico muhly, owen, pallett, Recording, sam amidon

My Morning Jacket were in town the other night to play at the Kool Haus. Unfortunately. Anyways, the show was pretty good from start to finish. The Besnard Lakes got things going around 9pm and played for about 40 minutes. MMJ took the stage around 10pm and played for just over 2.5 hours.

Setlists
The Besnard Lakes:
01 Ride The Rails
02 Devastation
03 For Agent 13
04 On Bedord And Grand
05 Disaster
06 And You Lied To Me

My Morning Jacket:
01 Evil Urges
02 Im Amazed
03 Off The Record
04 What A Wonderful Man
05 Gideon
06 Highly Suspicious
07 Thank You Too!
08 Lowdown
09 Touch Me Im Going To Scream Pt. 1
10 Librarian
11 Sec Walkin
12 Golden
13 Two Halves
14 The Way That He Sings
15 Lay Low
16 Aluminum Park
17 Remnants
18 Smokin From Shootin
19 Touch Me Im Going To Scream Pt. 2 > Good Intentions
20 encore break

Encore:
21 Wordless Chorus
22 Steam Engine
23 One Big Holiday
24 Run Thru
25 Anytime

Downloads
The Besnard Lakes: 16-bit | 24-bit
My Morning Jacket: 16-bit | 24-bit | Live Music Archive

Stream via the LMA

Links
The Besnard Lakes: website | myspace
My Morning Jacket: website | myspace | live music archive

Tags: audio, besnard lakes, kool haus, my morning jacket, Recording

Kathleen Edwards played the Phoenix last week. She’s on tour in support of her new album, “Asking For Flowers“. Opening the show around 8pm was Justin Rutledge. He played for about 45 minutes and then Kathleen started around 9:15pm. She played for over 95 minutes. The show was really good. As well as the sound in the venue.

Justin Rutledge:
01 Robins Tune
02 The Wire
03 St. Peter
04 Come Summertime
05 Greenwich Time
06 Everyones In Love
07 Too Sober To Sleep
08 Does It Make You Rain

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Links: website | myspace

Kathleen Edwards:
01 Mercury
02 In State
03 What Are You Waiting For?
04 Asking For Flowers
05 Run
06 Oil Mans War
07 banter
08 I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory
09 12 Bellevue
10 Alicia Ross
11 I Cant Give You Up
12 Summerlong
13 Six O’clock News
14 Copied Keys
15 Oh Canada
16 The Cheapest Key
17 encore break

Encore:
18 banter
19 Good Things
20 Goodnight, California
21 Back To Me

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Links: website | myspace | fan site | canoe.org

Tags: audio, justin rutledge, kathleen edwards, live, phoenix, Recording

Drive-By Truckers were in town lastnight to play a show at the Opera House in support of their new record “Brighter Than Creations Dark“. Opening up the show were The Whigs who were back in town after their last gig at the Horseshoe. The show started around 9pm with The Whigs playing for about 40 minutes. As with the last show, i thought they were pretty good. The Truckers started around 10:15pm and played until 12:45am. They started off kind of slow with more mellow tunes mixed in, but the last 90 minutes were pure rock n’ roll. Im sure everyone there would agree that it was an amazing show.

The Whigs:
01 Like A Vibration
02 Technology
03 Already Young
04 Nothing Is Easy
05 Violet Furs
06 I Never Want To Go Home
07 Sleep Sunshine
08 Hot Bed
09 Right Hand On My Heart
10 Need You Need You
11 Half The World Away

Drive-By Truckers:
01 The Living Bubba
02 A Ghost To Most
03 Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife
04 Daddy Needs A Drink
05 3 Dimes Down
06 Im Sorry Houston
07 Sink Hole
08 Uncle Frank
09 Puttin’ People On The Moon
10 Self Destructive Zones
11 The Company I Keep
12 Hell No, I Aint Happy
13 Checkout Time In Vegas
14 You And Your Crystal Meth
15 Goode’s Field Road
16 Women Without Whiskey
17 The Opening Act
18 Where The Devil Dont Stay
19 Lookout Mountain
20 crowd noise

Encore:
21 banter
22 Zip City
23 18 Wheels Of Love
24 Shut Up And Get On The Plane
25 Let There Be Rock
26 Buttholeville > State Trooper > Buttholeville

Downloads:
The Whigs: 16-bit | 24-bit
Drive-By Truckers: Live Music Archive | 16-bit | 24-bit

Links:
The Whigs: website | myspace
Drive-By Truckers: website | myspace | live music archive

Tags: archive.org, downloads, drive-by truckers, live audio, lma, opera house, the whigs

I made it out to the Chart Canadian Music Week showcase Thursday night. Immaculate Machine, Dog Day, Katie Stelmanis, Plants & Animals, and The Acorn, Sun Parlour Players, and Oh No Forest Fires were all on the bill. 7 bands for $9, cant beat that. I didnt stay for the last two acts as it was already 1am and had work in the morning. I really enjoyed all 5 performances. Im not sure if the show was soldout, but it was pretty packed. The room sounded great too. Go checkout these fine Canadian artists when they hit your city. You wont be disappointed.

I was planning on recording the 5 bands i was there for, but my battery didnt charge properly so i only taped 3 of them. Really regretting not taping Katie Stelmanis.

Immaculate Machine
01 Wo Xiang Tanbai
02 C’mon Sea Legs
03 Broken Ship
04 Wont Be Pretty
05 Nothing Ever Happens In My Town
06 Small Talk
07 No Such Thing As The Future

Plants & Animals
01 New Kind Of Love
02 Good Friend
03 Faerie Dance
04 Bye Bye Bye
05 Lola Who?
06 Guru > Sinnerman > Guru

The Acorn
01 ?
02 Crooked Legs
03 Brokered Heart
04 Dents (Glory Pt. 1)
05 Antenna
06 Feral Chile
07 Low Gravity
08 The Flood Pt. 1

Links:
Immaculate Machine: website | myspace
Dog Day: website | myspace
Katie Stelmanis: website | myspace
Plants & Animals: website | myspace
The Acorn: website | myspace
Sun Parlour Players: website | myspace
Oh No Forest Fires: website | myspace

Support the artists and purchase a cd or two. And if you like what you heard above, buy a ticket to the show.

Tags: Chart, CMW, Dog Day, Horseshoe, Immaculte Machine, Katie Stelmanis, Oh No Forest Fires, Plants & Animals, Recording, Sun Parlour Players, The Acorn

The Cowboy Junkies were in Toronto last weekend to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their Trinity Sessions recording with a show at Massey Hall. The band played the Trinity Sessions from start to finish and then after a very short encore break came back out and performed a few more songs. Unfortunately, Ryan Adams, who was scheduled to to perform with the band, did not make it due to illness. Everyone knows Massey Hall sounds great, but this show was probably the best sounding show i have ever been to, so far. The show was recorded by CBC Radio 2 and will air on May 11.

You’ll eventually find an audience recording of the show here: http://www.archive.org/details/CowboyJunkies

Setlist:
Mining For Gold
Misguided Angel
Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)
I Don’t Get It
I’m So Lonesome I could Cry
To Love Is To Bury
200 More Miles
Dreaming My Dreams With You
Working On A Building
Sweet Jane (Velvet Underground)
Postcard Blues
Walking After Midnight

Encore:
Powderfinger (Neil Young)
My Little Basquiat
‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel
Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning

Tags: CBC Radio 2, Cowboy Junkies, Live Music Archive, Massey Hall, Ryan Adams