Final Date
Just a quick post to mark my first & last visit to the concert hangar at the Docks. I was lured there against my better judgment, a result of having consistently missed Belle & Sebastian on their past swings through Toronto & thinking that I really should see them sometime. (Or in some cases having been missed by them – I did have a ticket to that cancelled-on-the-day-of Opera House show back in fall 1998.)
Anyway, it was, er, a fine set. I guess. From what I could tell. Nice funky dance moves & a career-ranging song selection (though more/some covers would have been nice), and musically the performances of both B&S and openers the New Pornographers seemed certainly solid, if not exactly revelatory. From what I could hear.
And now, let us speak of this no more.
Here’s the superfun B&S disco take on the Young Marble Giants’ “Final Day.” And a track from the Giants themselves, one of the best from the icy, haunting, superb, and many other adjectives Colossal Youth. And a lovely Floyd Cramer classic that B&S oughtta cover sometime (except they’d probably have to make up some words or something), & which will serve as a gentle farewell from me to the Docks.
(Elsewhere: Frank at Chromewaves has a very well done proper/thorough review of the show here.)
Anyway, it was, er, a fine set. I guess. From what I could tell. Nice funky dance moves & a career-ranging song selection (though more/some covers would have been nice), and musically the performances of both B&S and openers the New Pornographers seemed certainly solid, if not exactly revelatory. From what I could hear.
And now, let us speak of this no more.
Here’s the superfun B&S disco take on the Young Marble Giants’ “Final Day.” And a track from the Giants themselves, one of the best from the icy, haunting, superb, and many other adjectives Colossal Youth. And a lovely Floyd Cramer classic that B&S oughtta cover sometime (except they’d probably have to make up some words or something), & which will serve as a gentle farewell from me to the Docks.
(Elsewhere: Frank at Chromewaves has a very well done proper/thorough review of the show here.)
- Belle & Sebastian, “Final Day”
- Young Marble Giants, “Brand-New-Life”
- Floyd Cramer, “Last Date”
posted by DW | 27.2.06
2 Comments:
Sorry the site sucked... I'm curious to hear why. Frank's didn't really explain either. Why're the Docks so bad? Never been to a show there, and if I never should, how come?
Hey Jep, It's just very big and very long, with no sightlines to speak of. Which means that unless you're one of the first 300 people there (out of 3500 or whatever), the band is going to be very far away and isn't going to sound too good either. I could actually see them OK, being tall and all (but they still looked faaaar away), but the sound was dulled, and when they bantered with the crowd between songs we literally couldn't hear a word. The general ambience of the Docks kind of pissed me off, too -- bouncers yelling at you to hold your ticket out and keep moving in a straight line before you're even at the door, that kind of thing. A friend of mine was up at the front and so had a great experience, but he had to get there at 5:30 pm and stand on a concrete floor outside in the freezing cold for two hours to do it. And if course even if you are one of the lucky ones, once you get up there close to the stage you can't so much as twitch all night, and you're constantly being pressed in more & more like a piece of cattle.
So, yeah. Never again.
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