Last night my buddy Hurl and I went to the
Century Casino in Edmonton to see the band
Marcy Playground play. Ya, who knew they were even still around,or cared, after their one big hit from 1997 "
Sex and Candy" I thought they had broken up, apparently not. Although, I think there is only one original member in the band.
I would normally not even think of going to this show, but I won tickets from
Foundation Concerts, I entered the draw on a lark and won, go figure. Well, we had nothing better to do, so we went to the show. I hope no one paid to see this show, cause it was awful. From the turn out for the show, it looked like no one paid to see it, there were less then a hundred people at it. The place was empty.
Seems like the band can't decide what they want to sound like, cheesy hard rock, bad psychedelia, bad nursery rhymes it was all just plain old bad. No wonder there was no one there.
If I learned anything from the show, it's that the Century Casino live venue is a pretty cool venue, the sound is good and not a bad seat in the place. I would definitely checkout another show there if they ever book a decent band to play at the venue.
Empty Bar.
