My buddy A-Bomb and I went to this Elliott Brood show at the Starlite Room. This would be my 7th time seeing them in concert and first time in six years.
Opening the show was a singer-songwriter from Winnipeg by the name of Grant Davidson with his three piece band called Slow Leaves. Their music was very folky with some well written songs. A pretty good set.
Next up was the five piece folk/rock band out of Fernie, B.C. called Shred Kelly. The band is led by husband/wife team of Tim Newton on banjo and lead vocals and Sage McBride on keyboards and background vocals. They play a high energy show that had the near full venue dancing and singing. They looked to be having a lot of fun performing. I really enjoyed their set but found myself half way through the show starting to find their songs starting to sound all the same. Overall a fun set!
By the time Toronto's alt. country rock band Elliott Brood hit the stage the place was full and ready to have a good time. There was a real good vibe in the room, people seemed to be really letting loose at the show without being rude and obnoxious. It's always nice to see a room full of people all there for the same reason, to let loose and checkout some great music.
I've always been a big fan of this three piece band that consists of Mark Sasso on guitar and banjo, Casey Laforet on acoustic guitar and bass pedals and Stephen Pitkin on drums, and of all the times I have seen them this was probably my favourite show of theirs. And with it being six years since I had last seen them play it was awesome to hear a bunch of songs that I had yet to hear them play live.
And they had just released a brand new album called Town, which is really fucking good. Half way through their set they played three brand new songs "Dark End Of The Road", "Dried Up" and "Rose City". The new songs went over really well. They mixed up their set very well playing some older songs, like the second song of the night "Oh, Alberta" from their 2004 album Tin Type. Of course that really got the crowd jumping. Again it was good vibes throughout the room, lots of dancing and singing along and a lot of drinking. Second last song of the night the band brought out the openers for a rocking rendition of Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls", that was fun! Then to end the nights of music Elliott Brood handed out tin stove top covers and wooden spoons to the audience, probably about fifteen sets to play along to the song "Write It All Down For You". And of you know the song, this works really well if the audience knows the song. Well, not everyone knew the song, so it was a lot of off beat drumming on the tin, but man, people were having a blast. The band has been known to do this quite often in their shows. A great way to end a show with crowd participation. A fun fun night out! Good times!!!
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