February 28th

  On February 28th, 2009 I saw the Edmonton dance/electronic/punk band Shout Out Out Out Out play the Starlite Room here in Edmonton. The show was an album release show for the album Reintegration Time. A great show this was!

February 25th

 

 It was February 25th, 2011 that I saw this awesome double bill of two legendary blues men Johnny Winter with James Cotton opening and then performing together for the encore. The show was at the Polish Hall in Edmonton. Sadly both these musicians have since passed with Johnny leaving us in 2014 and James in 2017.

February 21st

  This is probably my coolest ticket stub, that being from the Tragically Hip show I saw at the Edmonton Coliseum. Opening this show were Odds and Change Of Heart, a damn good all Canadian triple bill.

February 20th

  The concert ad and poster from the time I saw Sons Of Freedom with Econoline Crush and Grimskunk play People's Pub in Edmonton on February 20th, 1995.

February 16th

  It was on this day February 16th, 2007 that I saw Johnny Winter with opening act David Gogo play the Polish Hall in Edmonton. A great double bill of blues music.

February 15th

  It was on February 15th, 2010 that I saw Wilco perform at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton.

February 14th

 On February 14th, 1997 I was at the Edmonton Convention Centre for the Big Sugar and Big Rude Jake double bill. A great night of Canadian talent.

February 12th

 

 On February 12th, 2007 I saw Emmylou Harris play the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton.

February 7th

 

 On February 7th, 2019 I got to see Portland, Oregon band the Mean Jeans rock The Buck here in Edmonton. Opening the show was Calgary's The Mandates and Edmonton's local punksters Real Sickies. This was a super fun show.

February 4th

  On February 4th, 2017 I saw the Sam Roberts Band with opening act Hollerado play the Winspear Centre in Edmonton.

Kerry King Live in Edmonton January 23rd 2025

  My buddy Nazz and I went to see Kerry King play the Midway Music Hall here in Edmonton. Kerry King of course is the guitarist/lyricist and founding member of Slayer. With Slayer on hiatus, Kerry has put together a band and what a band it is. After hearing Kerry King's debut album From Hell I Rise I knew I had to go to this show. And who better to go to this show with then my headbanging buddy Nazz.

 Opening the show was a band from New Zealand called Alien Weaponry. A three piece band led by brothers Henry de Jong on drums and Lewis de Jong on guitar and vocals, rounded out by bassist Turanga Morgan-Edwards. Their music is a thrash tribal sounding style with some of the lyrics sung in Maori language, which of course I myself and am sure most of the audience did not understand. They were super loud to the point that I could feel the vibrations running up through my legs. Overall I didn't much care for them.

Alien Weaponry.

 Next up was the thrash band Municipal Waste out of Richmond, Virginia. A band I had never seen before, I've heard the name lots over the years but for reasons unknown I've never really listened to them. Well, I tell you, they were awesome live. Kind of a cross between DRI, Suicidal Tendencies and S.O.D.. A very fun and entertaining band to see live. Short songs with an awesome crunch and great song titles such as "Slime and Punishment", "You're Cut Off", "The Art of Partying" and "Born To Party", you get the gist. Just a very fun band, great musicians and some funny lyrics. They had the crowd going off, big mosh pit happening through out their almost hour long set. I would certainly go see Municipal Waste again.

Municipal Waste.

 By the time Kerry King and his band hit the stage you could see the crowd had actually thinned out a little bit. I think there were some there just to see Municipal Waste. Still a big crowd though. Not quite as rowdy as I was expecting, maybe that is because, between bands the smoking area was packed with many a joint being passed around. Every circle of friends had a few joints being smoked and passed around to others.

 Kerry King's band is of course Kerry King on guitar, Paul Bostaph on drums who has also drummed for Slayer, Kyle Sanders on bass who has played in various other bands I have never heard of before, but holy shit he was great on bass, Phil Demmel on guitar who has played in Vio-lence among other bands and on lead vocals was Mark Osegueda of Death Angel.

 If you have heard Kerry King's album From Hell I Rise you knew what to expect, as it as an awesome album, if you like Slayer, you will love this album. Pure fucking heavy thrash metal! The band played very song from said album and you knew they had to play some Slayer as well. Opening the show with "Where I Reign" from the album From Hell I Rise. About six or seven songs into the set was the first Slayer song, that being "Repentless" and "Disciple" from God Hates Us All, "Raining Blood" and "Black Magic" from Slayer's debut 1983 album Show No Mercy.

 What did surprise me was when lead singer Mark gave a shout out to Paul Di'Anno the original lead singer of Iron Maiden who passed away in October. The band then did not one but two classic Iron Maiden songs in a row, them being "Purgatory" and "Killers", which sounded great. The closing song of the evening was the title song from Kerry King's album From Hell I Rise. A great night of a wall of loud heavy metal. Good times!!!

Kerry King.

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