052919 Geddy Lee, Ottawa, ON
On the morning of May 29th, 2019 I jumped out of bed excited…
Daily ticket stories
On the morning of May 29th, 2019 I jumped out of bed excited…
Wind coursed through pipes massive and miniature producing a sound on the organ that was both elegant and terrifying…
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…
Of course this concert included Tommy Lee’s obligatory over-the-top drum solo…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I was a-okay with the show itself…
On April 23rd, 2022 I was in Ottawa for a social visit arranged to coincide with a Drive-By Truckers concert at the newly-awesome Bronson Centre…