052213 NACO plays Led Zeppelin, Ottawa, ON
Sure, Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest guitar-centric, riff-oriented rock bands of all time, but they were also masters of folding lush orchestration into their thunderous, genre-defining catalog…
Category: Ticket Stories
052106 Cirque du Soleil: Quidam, Ottawa, ON
On May 21st, 2006 I walked a few hundred metres from my apartment on Adelaide Street to the old, pre-renovation Lansdowne Park where the Cirque crew had set up their Ikea-coloured big-top Grand Chapiteau…
051915 Prince, Toronto, ON
On May 19th, 2015 my friend Doug and I drove to Toronto for what would prove to be my last ever Prince concert…
051803 Come Together Music Festival, Durham, ON
Come Together Music Festival was a ragtag fest of friends that booked all the small, relatively unknown Canadian jambands for rollicking three-nighters on each of the four summer long weekends from Victoria Day weekend to Labour Day…
051724 Dead & Co., Las Vegas, NV
I can’t overstate how good the sound is in the Sphere…
051601 Bill Frisell, Ottawa, ON
For this ticket story we’re going to have to go all the way back to the Second World War…
051509 Heineken Brewery Tour, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In the Spring of 2009 I made my first-ever trip to The Netherlands. With nothing to do and a lot to see I did a little research and invested in an Amsterdam citypass, basically a coupon booklet for tourism hotspots…
051413 Mötley Crüe/Big Wreck, Ottawa, ON
Of course this concert included Tommy Lee’s obligatory over-the-top drum solo…
051322 ZZ Top/Cheap Trick, St. John’s, NL
ZZ Top was all class from the get-go…
051113 Big Mama, Ottawa, ON
Though musicals and opera aren’t really my thing sometimes theatre and music can meet up in a way that tickles my entertainment bone, and this show was one of those times…
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