11.03.2007 Wintersleep / Wooden Stars - Victoria
This little trip to Victoria, wasn't a spur of the moment thing. It's not like I saw Wintersleep in Vancouver, got blown away and then decided to go to Victoria. Nope, this was planned. I decided I wasn't satisfied with just one show and since Calgary and Kelowna are too far away, Victoria would have to do. I went in expecting I'd be taking a heavy hit with a ferry and hotel fees. What I wasn't expect was to find quite a large number of Vancouverites taking the trip to Victoria as well to see Canada's finest in action in Victoria.
On the ferry over, I was flipping through radio and by chance, landed on the zone 91.3, who had, at that very moment, Wintersleep doing an interview and a performance of an acoustic Weighty Ghost. I believe it was just Paul and Loel. In Vancouver, it was just Paul and Tim. Poor Paul, he must be so sick of playing Weighty Ghost by now.
Sugar Nightclub is actually a pretty nice venue for a nightclub. Highlights of that venue was a well lit room and a sunken dance floor. Real estate up at the stage lip is pretty limited however. This created a very tightly packed crowd with lots of pushing. This seemed to fire up the band, as they were on fire tonight. Every chord and note seemed to played with an emphasis on loud and hard. Somewhat suprising, the university town based crowd even took to moshing during just about every song. They played pretty much 90min on the dot. The setlist was pretty much the same as the night before but in a different ordering. No Danse Macabre. Suprisingly the crowd didn't even put up a fight. There were people near the front who had been yelling out 'Danse' all night, yet headed for the door as soon as the band said goodbye. I was talking to Jon, after the gig and he said that they normally play either Nerves or Danse and not both during the encore. The two 10+ min songs of heavy jam-ery can be a little too much even for the band themselves. I guess Vancouver got lucky. However, I'm still convinced that without a tight curfew, the band probably could have indulged those who had asked during the set, had people only stuck around.
Lastly, some tidbits from the last 2 days. Wintersleep could be back in the states as soon as January. They'll also be in off to Japan for the first time in Febuary. The song "How you lie", which they were playing about a year ago, will be a b-side or import only song. As with one more, which I don't know.
Adrian from One Geeks Opinion also has a video of Dead Letter over at his site.
$20/$0
On the ferry over, I was flipping through radio and by chance, landed on the zone 91.3, who had, at that very moment, Wintersleep doing an interview and a performance of an acoustic Weighty Ghost. I believe it was just Paul and Loel. In Vancouver, it was just Paul and Tim. Poor Paul, he must be so sick of playing Weighty Ghost by now.
Sugar Nightclub is actually a pretty nice venue for a nightclub. Highlights of that venue was a well lit room and a sunken dance floor. Real estate up at the stage lip is pretty limited however. This created a very tightly packed crowd with lots of pushing. This seemed to fire up the band, as they were on fire tonight. Every chord and note seemed to played with an emphasis on loud and hard. Somewhat suprising, the university town based crowd even took to moshing during just about every song. They played pretty much 90min on the dot. The setlist was pretty much the same as the night before but in a different ordering. No Danse Macabre. Suprisingly the crowd didn't even put up a fight. There were people near the front who had been yelling out 'Danse' all night, yet headed for the door as soon as the band said goodbye. I was talking to Jon, after the gig and he said that they normally play either Nerves or Danse and not both during the encore. The two 10+ min songs of heavy jam-ery can be a little too much even for the band themselves. I guess Vancouver got lucky. However, I'm still convinced that without a tight curfew, the band probably could have indulged those who had asked during the set, had people only stuck around.
Lastly, some tidbits from the last 2 days. Wintersleep could be back in the states as soon as January. They'll also be in off to Japan for the first time in Febuary. The song "How you lie", which they were playing about a year ago, will be a b-side or import only song. As with one more, which I don't know.
Adrian from One Geeks Opinion also has a video of Dead Letter over at his site.
$20/$0
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