The Gig: Ra Ra Riot secret show Where: The Mod Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada When: 30 August 2010 In One Word: Intimate This Monday, August 30th 2010, Syracuse band Ra Ra Riot were in Toronto to play a secret show at the Mod Club. No tickets were sold for the event, but access was...
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The Gig: The Maccabees and Holy Vessels Where: Concorde 2, Brighton, United Kingdom When: 26th August 2010 In One Word: Triumphant As far as festival warm-up gigs go there have been some pretty big bands playing in small places lately, notably Kasabian for V Festival at Brixton Academy (which I was privileged enough to...
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The Gig: Sex On Toast and Mamushka Where: The Empress Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia When: 25 August 2010 In One Word: Sensational First question: How many fucking bands is Melbourne’s Angus Leslie in? Second question: How the fuck does he always manage to get so many bloody people out to said bands’ shows on...
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The Gig: Abandon All Ships Where: The Opera House, Toronto, Ontario, Canada When: 25 August 2010 In One Word: Megawacko Although the Opera House hasn’t really been my thing in years, there was definitely a time when a good weekend to me would’ve been moshing out in this palace of hardcore delights. Welcome to...
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The Gig: Rockstar Uproar Festival Where: Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada When: 25 August 2010 In One Word: Family Forget The EX. If you were a parent wanting to plan a nice family evening out on a wet Wednesday night in Toronto, the real fun was happening on the other side of Lake...
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Music Vice favourites, those mad caddies Root!, play a show which is billed as their last ever… The Gig: Root! with The Rhetorics and The Loop Where: Yah Yah’s, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia When: 20 August 2010 In One Word: Terrific So here we are in the packed and already sweltering Yah Yah’s with The...
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The Gig: Forest City Lovers w/ Gentleman Reg Where: Great Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada When: 12 August 2010 In One Word: Disappointing n.b. The following review has received a fair amount of blowback (via email, comments and even Twitter) in the past 24 hours from people who perceived my review to be “angry”, or...
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The Gig: Interpol Where: Kool Haus, Toronto, Ontario, Canada When: 10 August 2010 In One Word: Evocative It’s uncommon these days that I attend a concert as media without a camera strung around my neck, but tonight at the Kool Haus I was happy to watch the show with just a beer in my...
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The Gig: Artery Where: The Lexington, London, England When: 7 August 2010 In One Word: Intense Having been a long-time fan of the British post-punk movement, I bought a DVD documentary some years back entitled “Made in Sheffield”…and while my main interest lay in bands I have known and loved for eons such as...
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The Gig: Underage Festival 2010 Where: Victoria Park, London, England When: 1st August 2010 In One Word: Fab East London’s Victoria Park is usually a calm and tranquil place, but not today as 10,000 14-18 year olds descended on the park for a day of the hottest new bands to some of the industries...
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