Saturday, May 21, 2005
it's only electric
...and you will know us by the trail of dead graduated from the cozy confines of Richard's tonight, laying waste to the Commodore with (International) Noise Conspiracy in tow.
Everyone's favourite Scandinavian socialist's opened the show, drawing mostly from their forever delayed (at least in N. America) fourth full-length, Armed Love. The Conspiracy bring every rock cliche in the book (not to mention everything that is trendy about Socialist kitsch), but they pull it off well. I always wondered why the Hives got so popular while the (I)NC are still relatively under the radar when the latter seem so much better at doing the politically infused garage punk thing.
Dennis
Inge
Lars
Ludwig
As with last time they rolled into Vancouver, Trail of Dead opened with one of the better tracks from their latest lacklustre effort, "Will You Smile Again for Me," before forging ahead with a cut from Source Tags and Codes, and then two more from World's Apart. The new songs don't do much for me on record, but like everything else the band does, they soar live. Older tracks also got a kick in the ass from the extra drummer the band now utilizes live. As usual, the material off of Madonna were the highlights for me. "A Perfect Teenhood" screamed, and "Totally Natural" was punctuated by Jason Reece jumping (right over me) into the crowd. The set ended with the band pulling anyone they could up on stage as they smashed their way through "Richter Scale Madness." Oh... and of course, they broke shit.
Conrad Keely
Danny Wood
Kevin Allen
Jason Reece
now playing: the Microphones - I Felt Your Shape
it's only electric
...and you will know us by the trail of dead graduated from the cozy confines of Richard's tonight, laying waste to the Commodore with (International) Noise Conspiracy in tow.
Everyone's favourite Scandinavian socialist's opened the show, drawing mostly from their forever delayed (at least in N. America) fourth full-length, Armed Love. The Conspiracy bring every rock cliche in the book (not to mention everything that is trendy about Socialist kitsch), but they pull it off well. I always wondered why the Hives got so popular while the (I)NC are still relatively under the radar when the latter seem so much better at doing the politically infused garage punk thing.
Dennis
Inge
Lars
Ludwig
As with last time they rolled into Vancouver, Trail of Dead opened with one of the better tracks from their latest lacklustre effort, "Will You Smile Again for Me," before forging ahead with a cut from Source Tags and Codes, and then two more from World's Apart. The new songs don't do much for me on record, but like everything else the band does, they soar live. Older tracks also got a kick in the ass from the extra drummer the band now utilizes live. As usual, the material off of Madonna were the highlights for me. "A Perfect Teenhood" screamed, and "Totally Natural" was punctuated by Jason Reece jumping (right over me) into the crowd. The set ended with the band pulling anyone they could up on stage as they smashed their way through "Richter Scale Madness." Oh... and of course, they broke shit.
Conrad Keely
Danny Wood
Kevin Allen
Jason Reece
now playing: the Microphones - I Felt Your Shape
2 Comments:
you can see CJ in that first shot!
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3:51 a.m.
beck is coming to the QE on july 14th.
By , at
12:05 p.m.
