Friday, November 04, 2022
all we want from you are the kicks you've given us
all we want from you are the kicks you've given us
It's been 13-years since the Manic Street Preachers were in Vancouver. And that was a decade since the time before that. Needless to say, for a guy who dumped about two dozen Manics' CD singles when he moved last year, tonight at the Commodore was a big deal.
I'd really thought that 2009 was going to be the last time I saw them, unless I found myself on some coincidental Europe trip, so I was shocked to see the Manics/Suede co-headlining tour announcement just a couple of months ago.
I would've loved to hear anything off of the Holy Bible, but it was still a treat to hear a set that started with "Motorcycle Emptiness" and didn't really let up from there.
I've never really been a huge Suede fan. Which isn't commentary on how good I think Suede is, but in the pre-streaming days, you actually had to make an effort to get into bands that weren't big in North America.
That said, they were great live and clearly knew that people were there for them, since they opened with 2 or 3 new songs and rattled of an incredible rendition of "The Drowners" about halfway through their set.
I'm going to be in Philly and then NYC in about a month and I'm checking out one of those LCD Soundsystem residency shows. Did I fuck up by not getting a ticket to see Hop Along the same night instead, in the year of our lord twenty twenty two? Maybe. But I also may have fucked up by not going to see Laura Stevenson and Jeff Rosenstock in Toronto (my original plan to use up vacation days) or making sure I was in Philly or New York to see them. Especially after hearing their second(!) Neil Young covers EP. And that whole paragraph was a set-up to say that I can't think of many things I've loved more in the last little while than Laura Stevenson singing "Comes a Time".
Good thing I'm so stoked to wander around New York for the first time in almost 4-years.
