Good Shows
They can be hard to find.
Truth be told, I don’t go see much live music because I’m a pitch snob. Far too many bands these days are altered in the studio. If you can’t sing, I just kind of hate it. I’ve spent too many shows cringing at flat notes to generally take a risk on someone I don’t know.
I know, there’s this amazing je ne sais quoi to being at a live show that listening to a CD just can’t replace. It’s all so special and I’m so glad we were all there to share it together.
Great. Learn to sing.
That being said, I just came back from one of the best shows I’ve ever been to: Dan Deacon. Not only was his music great, he put us hipsters through our paces. I love nothing more than seeing a group of los too cool for school being made to do funny things.
He made the entire audience move to one side and then perform a huge ‘tunnel’ - you know where two people put their hands up, and then the next pair goes through and joins the end of the line? He also made a number of individuals dance ’sassy’ in the middle of a huge ring of us.
In fact, this performance was second only to Les Savy Fav at Intonation ‘05, when Tim Harrington made 10,000-20,000 hipsters in ironic sunglasses sit down in unison. It was like magic.
Anyway, I am sleepy, but Dan’s show is definitely worth checking out (and now I’m about to cross-post). He’s performing tomorrow at the St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival (good luck getting tickets -boo, I wanted to see Gotye) and also on Tuesday somewhere that I’m not telling. And it’s only maybe because I don’t remember.
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