091907 Beastie Boys, Montreal, QC
I was super-excited for the somewhat unique chance to see the Beastie Boys in a cool venue like Metropolis…
Category: Ticket Stories
091801 John Cougar Mellencamp/The Wallflowers, Ottawa, ON
Mellencamp stood at the edge of the stage in jeans and a t-shirt with nothing but a microphone and great band behind him and belted out a lifetime of great, no-BS rock and roll…
091703 Hawksley Workman, Ottawa, ON
By the time I walked into a very-packed Barrymore’s on September 17th, 2003 I had already seen Hawksley Workman at least three or four times before…
091689 Kim Mitchell/The Wisconsin Johnsins, Ottawa, ON
I couldn’t believe it…the real Kim Mitchell playing on campus at my very own university…
091507 Genesis, Ottawa, ON
Being on the “never seen ‘em” list is generally enough to get me out of the house on a Saturday night, and Genesis fit the bill.
091411 Phish, Essex Junction, VT
In the late summer of ’11 Vermont was among the states hit with major flooding, the worst the region had seen in almost a century. Good on the de facto hometown boys Phish to quickly organise a one-off flood benefit show just off the highway one exit north of Burlington on September 14th, 2011…
091392 Guns N’ Roses/Metallica/Faith No More, Toronto, ON
On September 13th, 1992 I found myself in a scalper office in Toronto…
091219 Lucinda Williams/Larkin Poe, Ottawa, ON
On September 12th, 2019 I was pleasantly surprised to find myself at Ottawa’s CityFolk Festival…
091118 Louwman Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands
On September 11th, 2018 I visited the Louwman Museum for the second time…
091005 Inglewood Jack/What The Thunder Said/Andrew Vincent and the Pirates, Wakefield, QC
Wakefest happened in Wakefield (hence half the name), a splendid little music/arts village in western Quebec…
