I got to see my two favorite Australian bands on
the one bill last night. the Living End were on first, I didn't realize what a
big following they had in Toronto (I kindof assumed 95% of the crowd
were there to see silverchair). This is their 3rd time playing in
Toronto in 12 months. I think these guys must spend 10 months a year
touring, their live perfomance is pretty faithful to how they sound on
their cds. I was glad they played a lot of the songs from their first
CD, I like their newer stuff too but theres something about 'Prisoner
of Society' that reminds me of when I was in grade 4 & pretended
to be an anarchist. i'd forgotten how much i liked 'wake up'. at one
time that was the highest played song on my itunes. they played a
couple of songs I hadn't heard before, I'm not sure if they were new
songs, or covers, but they sounded pretty damn good. but it was their
classics - Who's Gonna Save Us, Second Solution, West End Riot - I
think everytime they started a new song I jumped up & yelled 'f*ck
YEH!'. Hopefully they'll come out with a new cd soon, and they'll be
back in Toronto again in 2007.
during intermission Jamie & I got chatting to two aussie
backpackers. they had been backpackign around Canada & the USA for
the last year & were supposed to go back to Australia last
month, but decided to extend their stay an extra month when they found
out silverchair/the living end were playing. Jamie & I were
telling them about the big day out & the hottest 100, there were a
lot of australians at the kool house (maybe 20%?), I have a knack for
spotting who the Australians are in a crowd. I have to say though
Canadians, and Toronto especially love the chair. I've seen
silverchair four times, in four different countries (Auckland,
Melbourne, Seattle, and now Toronto). considering diorama came out 4
years ago, it is pretty amazing that their T.O. concert sold out in
just a few days. during the show Daniel said they had recorded their new CD in Toronto, how cool is that?
the crowd were chanting 'sil-ver-chair', I think they were expecting
the guys to come out with one of their heavier rock numbers, their
first song was ... without you. eh, wouldn't have been my pick, but
the fans obviously loved diorama. Tune in the Brine, and Luv Your Life
sounded a bit weird to me ... I like those songs, but at a live show I
would have rather seen the chairs heavier songs. in fact most of the
songs were from diorama. Emotion Sickness sounded amazing, my
highlight was Greatest View. There weren't any songs from frog stomp
not suprisingly, but they did play the Door & Freak. Jamie tried
in vain to stop me from singing along to Freak. there were a new few
songs, Straight Lines was easily my favorite, I am definitely looking
forward to the new cd, Young Modern.
they are very different bands but I would have to loved to see the Living End come back on & see the
two bands do a few songs together (imagine silverchair + the living end
covering some ACDC or Midnight Oil?). but thats not how it ended up, Freak was the last song.
well
I got my dose of Aussie rock for now, I know my mates in Brisbane were
spewing when I told them about the show. I hope silverchairs new cd
does well, I don't think diorama did as well as their earlier stuff,
but what bands are still selling CDs these days? one thing going for
silverchair, they don' have any problems selling out shows.
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