Monday, June 23, 2003 :: 7:00:00 PM

Song of choice: If I Had a Million Dollars - Barenaked Ladies

Wow... well here I am, 2 days after the big Concert for Toronto, and my ears have just finally healed back to their usual level off goodness.. and all I've gotta say is...

DAMN

not damn as in "AWWWWWW DAMN!", but damn as in "DAMN, GINA!"

the show was awesome... absolutely awesome.

The show took place at Skydome and the Air Canada Centre. Huge video screens linked the venues together, and performances at each venue alternated, allowing both crowds to catch the acts down the street on a live, giant-screen feed while the stage is set up for the next act.

It seemed that when the ACC groups were playing, though, that the majority of the Skydomers thought that it would be a great time to hit the food and 'money grabber' stands.. ($35 for an Avril Lavigne tshirt? PUHlease... robbie, how about I get you a glowing avril dog that walks uphill (or was it downhill) for your birthday?)

a lot of stuff could have stood to be booted - ie. swollen members...

I could have handled a little less avril... she did 7 songs, including her 4 singles...

BNL was ***FRIGGIN FANTASTIC***... of course I LOVE them to begin with, so they could have stood up there for a half hour scratching themselves and dancing to polka music and I still would have loved it just as much. They opened with My Appartment, then followed with (in no particular order) Pinch Me, One Week, Brian Wilson, an impromptu freestyle solo which that turned into the Chicken Dance, if you've seen them on TV in concert before, you know what I'm talking about... the freestyle consisted of a nice little SARS cheerleader cheer (gimmie an S, gimmie an A, gimmie an R, gimmie an S... what do you have? SARS!)... they jammed for a while and had white face masks put on... all great fun... and ended with If I Had a Million Dollars... Absolutely great.

Sarah McLachlan... even after making her thoughts on the media's dealings with SARS ("they fucking piss me off because toronto is such a beautiful city") clear, she was incredible. Absolutely incredible. That's musical talent and desire right there. She loves doing what she's doing, she has the most beautiful voice, and is actually quite diverse in what she CAN sing... I admire that, and think she hasn't really gotten the recognition that she deserves. Not yet, anyway, considering her last performance was at Lillith Fair in 1999, that's understandable. She was the headliner for the ACC show, and for a good reason. Singing classics like I Will Remember You, Innocent, a few songs off of her new ablum set to hit stores in September, and encored with an almost haunting rendition of Angel.

The Hip was good... put on a good show, but the sound was horrible.. the band was almost eardrum numbingly loud, and you could hardly hear the words to the songs, which is too bad because they're pretty well known for their clarity... but all in all they were a good show, playing classics like my fav: Poets. they closed.

so yea, it was a great show, something I'd like to go see again if similar groups got together again.

This is the summer for concerts, I tell ya.. and it doesn't stop with these names.. With groups such as The Rolling Stones coming to town at the end of July and, get this, U2 might be coming to town!!!!!!!!! it cant get much better than that!

The Stones' concert is going to cost somewhere in the area of $20/person... but that will be announced tomorrow for sure. there's talk that it might even be a FREE concert...

but I would assume that U2 would cost big bucks...

anyway, that's all I have for now... I took pictures of the event, but they didn't turn out that well, so I'm not gonna bother posting them right away =(

Until next time.......
*Fade to Black*

note: just to clarify - the story of U2 coming to town was just that, a story. they are NOT coming to town, as far as I know, any time soon.

:: Eldorado ::