031597 Big Sugar/Weeping Tile, Ottawa, ON
Big Sugar mounted the temporary stage and turned the boring, accordion-walled conference hall into a barrelhouse barroom with a guitar-driven blues-tinged slab of sound that was a mile thick…
Tag: live music
030809 Phish, Hampton, VA
Newly discovered notes written in the hours following the final show of Phish’s comeback run inspired me to rewrite this tiny slice of my own personal history in order to bring it a little closer to where it actually was, is, and should be…
030709 Phish, Hampton, VA
This seemingly redundant entry for the middle night of Phish’s 2009 hiatus-ending weekend in Hampton is in fact wholly different from the rather distorted memory-trip I stumbled through when I first tried to capture the experience in pixels…
030498 Primus, Ottawa, ON
Primus is just so downright unique and chock full of Zappa-esque surprises it was impossible for them to lose my attention…
030312 The Barr Brothers, Ottawa, ON
Super-cool dudes, those Barr’s…
030223 REYNALDO & the Dalliances, Ottawa, ON
From the bar I could see everyone onstage except the lead singer, but as soon as I heard his voice I knew who it was…
022609 Kevin Breit/CR Avery, Wakefield, QC
On February 26th, 2009 I went to The Black Sheep in Wakefield, Quebec to see the great Kevin Breit, who was sharing the bill with someone I had never heard of named C. R. Avery…
022516 NACO plays Queen, Ottawa, ON
On February 25th, 2016 I went to the National Arts Centre for We Are The Champions: The Music Of Queen; despite the title of the show I knew exactly what I was in for…
021011 Jerry Lee Lewis/Frankie Ford, Naples, FL
There could be no better way to end the Rock & Roll Field Trip than a concert featuring the great Jerry Lee Lewis…
020717 Drive-By Truckers, Montreal, QC
On February 7th, 2017 m’lady and I drove to Montreal to see the Drive-By Truckers. Before the show we had a drink in our hotel lobby bar and decided to walk to the show. It was fairly mild for a February night and the walk was relatively short and quite pleasant…
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