Concert Archive

This is a working list. Still a few shows I have to fill in.

2010

02-11- Owen Pallett/Basia Bulat (St. Matthew's Church, Halifax NS)

02-08 - Halifax for Haiti (Joel Plaskett, Classified, Rawlings Cross, Christina Martin, Rebekah Higgs, and others) (Halifax Metro Centre, Halifax NS)

02-05 - Joel Plaskett/Luke Levy/Steven Bowers (MSVU, Halifax NS)

02-01 - City and Colour/Two Hours Traffic (Rebecca Cohn, Halifax NS)

01-30 - Jim Bryson/Justin Rutledge/Catherine MacLellan (St. Patrick's Church, Halifax NS)

01-22 - Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees/Grahm Zilla (The Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)

2009
12-12 - Hey Rosetta!/La Strada/Jon Mckiel (The Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)
12-11 - Hey Rosetta!/La Strada/Jon Mckiel (The Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)
11-27 - The Most Serene Republic/Mardeen/First Aid Kit (The Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)
10-24 - Japandroids/You Say Party! We Say Die! (The Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)
10-24 - Jenn Grant/Timber Timbre (St. Matthew's Church, Halifax NS)
10-23 - MSTRKRFT (The Palace, Halifax NS)
10-23 - Hey Rosetta!/Oh No Forest Fires (The Grawood, Halifax NS)
10-22 - Herman Dune/Julie Doiron (St. Matthew's Church, Halifax NS)
10-21 - Bruce Peninsula/Valleys/The Got To Get Got/York Redoubt (The Seahorse Tavern, Halifax NS)

10-05 - Rich Aucoin/Windom Earle/Ryan Hemsworth (The Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)

09-20 - U2/Snow Patrol (Gillette Stadium, Foxboro MA)

09-18 - Hey Rosetta!/The Novaks/Boxer The Horse (Bridge Street Tent, Sackville NB)

09-11 - Joel Plaskett Emergency/The Mark Inside (Dalhousie University, Halifax NS)
07-04 - Virgin Festival: Metric, Dinosaur Jr, Hey Rosetta!, Plants and Animals, Handsome Furs, Arkells, In Flight Safety (Citadel Hill, Halifax NS)

06-19 - Matt Mays (The Seahorse Tavern)
05-28 - Joel Plaskett and Friends (Rebecca Cohn, Halifax NS)
05-16 - k-os/Lioness (Cunard Center, Halifax NS)
05-01 - Hey Rosetta!/Rich Aucoin (The Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)
04-26 - Joel Plaskett (+ Emergency, Bill Plaskett, Ana & Rose, Adam Baldwin) (The Carleton, Halifax NS)
04-18 - Record Store Day: Joel Plaskett, The Superfantastics, Laura Merrimen (Taz Records, Halifax NS)
04-03 - Death Cab For Cutie/Midway State (McInnis Room Dalhousie, Halifax NS)
03-12 - Great Big Sea/Spirit of the West (Halifax Metro Centre, Halifax NS)
03-11 - In Flight Safety/The Superfantastics (Grawood, Halifax NS)

2008
11-19 Coldplay/Sleeper Car/Jon Hopkins (American Airlines Center, Dallas TEX)
11-12 The Joel Plaskett Emergency (Grawood, Halifax NS)
11-07 Feist/Hayden (Halifax Metro Centre, Halifax NS)
11-02 Stars/Hey Rosetta! (St. Matthew's, Halifax NS)
11-01 Stars/Hey Rosetta! (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)
09-21 Jason Collett/Rebekah Higgs (Seahorse Tavern, Halifax NS)
09-14 Bloc Party/Apostle of Hustle (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)
09-13 The Trews/Shelter with Theives (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)
09-03 Wintersleep/Dog Day (Sexton Field, Halifax NS)
07-19 Summersonic: City and Colour/The Weakerthans/Tokyo Police Club/In Flight Safety/Rebekah Higgs (Garrison Grounds, Halifax NS)
06-26 Jose Gonzalez/Rebekah Higgs (St. Matthew's, Halifax NS)

2007
11-02 The Contact/Air Traffic Control/The Pact (The Attic, Halifax NS)
10-18 Apostle of Hustle/The Most Serene Republic/Young Galaxy/Grand Theft Bus (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)
06-16 The Contact (Birch Cove Baptist, Halifax NS)

2006
05-12 Our Lady Peace/Neverending White Lights/Jets Overhead/Pedestrian (Metro Center, Halifax NS)
03-30 Halifax Play Hard: Garrett Mason, Jimmy Rankin, The Joel Plaskett Emergency, Matt Mays + El Torpedo, The Trews (Grand Parade, Halifax NS)
03-31 Pilate (Sam the Record Man, Halifax NS)

2005
05-26 U2/Kings of Leon (Fleet Center, Boston MA)
01-11 Concert for Asia:MIR, Crush, Lennie Gallant, Matt Mays, Bruce Guthro, the Jimmy Swift Band, and others (Metro Centre, Halifax NS)

2002
11-23 Great Big Sea, Crush

Concert Review: Bloc Party

September 14th, 2008. At the Marquee Club, Halifax
Fellow Concert goers: Owen Marchand and Lauren Allen.
Headliner: Bloc Party
Supporting: Apostle of Hustle

The second night of my Marquee weekend featured one of my favourite Canadian indie bands and one of the bigger U.K. Indie bands. I'll confess I'm not the biggest Bloc Party fan in the world, but the fact that a current band of their status was coming to Halifax made it a must see event. It was refreshing to get a big act that isn't just a has been, such as the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Elton John, etc, but rather a band in their prime. Bloc Party released their new album Intimacy at the end of August online, and will be releasing a physical copy later on in October. So that meant some of the new songs were getting road tested including Talons which was just released the other week and played for the first time live at this show.

The band used alot of strobe lights and there was lots of movement and dancing all show long. By the end of the show I was completely drenched in sweat from all the movement and heat caused by that many people. And I was right up at the very front so you don't exactly have that much space around you unfortunately. The crowd was really into the entire show

The band opened with One Month Off from their new album before moving into Hunting For Witches. I did enjoy the first six songs, but it wasn't until they played Songs for Clay and Banquet together that I really got into the show. You could also tell that Kele was more comfortable with the crowd and more into the show at that point. I'm also more familiar with songs from Silent Alarm and the first few off of Weekend in the City (shows I'm not that hardcore of a fan), and the later part of the setlist was more weighted towards those songs. It was funny listening to Kele between songs talking to "hell-E-fax". I guess I'm not used to hearing British bands.

After the main set the crowd obviously cheered quite loudly for an encore which they got. This is when Talons made its live debut. They then played Price of Gas with everybody loudly singing and dancing along before going into the dance song Flux. And then finally playing crowd favourite Helicopter which if you weren't singing and jumping up and down at this point you didn't know how to have fun. After this encore the band came back out because "we haven't played a show in a place like this for a while and we're having fun".
They played She's Hearing Voices as their final song. At this point the barrier between performer and audience was completely torn down as Kele went out into the crowd; crowd surfing, taking pictures, dancing with fans, etc. All in all a great show and I'm glad that I was able to go.

Apostle of Hustle did a great job opening up the show, although I wish they could have played longer. They only played 3 songs off their studio albums, and then played 3 or 4 other songs. Luckily they played Folkloric Feel which is one of my favourite Apostle of Hustle songs. Andrew Whiteman also held up a bra that was thrown on stage the last time they were in Halifax last October.

Here is the setlist:
One Month Off
Hunting For Witches
Little Thoughts
Waiting For The 7.18
Halo
Signs
Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
Banquet
Better than Heaven
This Modern Love
The Prayer
Like Eating Glass

Encore 1
Talons (first time played live)
Price of Gasoline
Flux
Helicopter

Encore 2
She's Hearing Voices

Concert Review - Arts & Crafts showcase

October 18th, 2007: The Marquee Club, Halifax
Fellow Concert Goers: Bethany Draper
Bands: Young Galaxy, the Most Serene Republic, Apostle of Hustle

Halifax Pop Explosion, a week long music extravaganza around the city took place this past week. Some of the larger names included Teagan and Sarah, Matt Mays, and Joel Plaskett. The show I was interested in was the Arts & Crafts showcase. First of all I have to say that the Arts & Crafts label has to be one of the best record labels out there featuring amazing talent like the bands listed above along with Feist, Stars, and Broken Social Scene. All the artists on the label pour out alot of creativity and passion into their music. And this was apparent on Thursday night.

The first band to play was Grand Theft Bus who aren't on the Arts & Crafts label and I didn't really care for. The main band I was looking forward to was Young Galaxy. There latest album has been in heavy rotation for me the past few weeks. The passion they poured out into their set was incredible, the highlight for me was when they sang Swing Your Heartbreak, more particularly the bridge of the song.

Next up was the Most Serene Republic who I also really enjoyed all though it was a little loud and too many sounds going on for me to fully appreciate their songs. They had an awesome intro as the band launched their set with the song Humble Peasants with much pot and pan clanging along with violin and trombone. Frontman Adrian Jewett alternated between vocals and trombone the whole set.














The main act Apostle of Hustle, the band I have listened to the least, also put on a very good live show as well. Andrew Whiteman came out wearing a jacket that he must have painted himself. He is definitely a little eccentric, and was definitely under the influence of mind altering substances.