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…
Tag: live music
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…
051011 Neil Young/Bert Jansch, Toronto, ON
Leave it to Neil Young to book folk legend Bert Jansch (1943-2011) to open the show – a classy pairing that would prove to be one of Bert’s last tours…
050906 Drums & Tuba/Dave Lauzon, Ottawa, ON
I believe this might mark the last time I saw Drums & Tuba, a quirky-by-definition trio that first came to my attention at an Ani DiFranco concert on this exact date in ’99…
050816 Pearl Jam, Ottawa, ON
It’s great to see a band when they are still on top of their game, even if they’ve been there for a quarter of a century. I don’t know how it took so long for me to jump on this band’s wagon but I will definitely be seeing Pearl Jam again and again and as often as I can from now on…
050414 John Fogerty/Arcade Fire/Trombone Shorty/Preservation Hall Horns, New Orleans, LA
On May 4th, 2014 I spent most of the day at what is unquestionably one of the world’s great music festivals…
050209 The Tragically Hip, Montreal, QC
The semi-regular opportunity to see arena-level bands in a nice, 2,000-person capacity balconied theatre easily pushes Metropolis to the top of my preferred Montreal concert halls…
050124 Big Space, St. John’s, NL
I know what you’re thinking…
042916 Stickmen, Ottawa, ON
Take a monstrously talented trio like Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto, both from King Crimson among other highly-respected projects, and the two-hand tapping guitaruoso Markus Reuter and plunk them down together in a small bar like Maverick’s and it should be a sure-fire homerun…
