My buddy Buzzard and I went to see the Sam Roberts Band at the Jubilee Auditorium here in Edmonton. This would be my 7th time seeing them in concert. This time around Sam Roberts was touring for the 20th Anniversary of the Chemical City album, which was their second release as a band. Blows me away that it's been out for 20 years already. They were only playing five cities across Canada for this tour, and lucky for us Edmonton was one of them.
The band started the show doing the Chemical City in it's entirety. S of course starting the show with the song "The Gate" which was one of three singles that came from the album. The followed up by "Bridge To Nowhere" and "With A Bullet" which were the other singles from Chemical City. The fourth song "Mind Flood" was heavy as hell and very psychedelic. As Sam mentioned, it felt weird for him to playing the song so early in the set as a lot of times that song is a closer of his shows. Hard to song to follow up, but of course they played the other ten songs from the album just as it is on the record. After playing all of Chemical City it was on to the second set, except it really wasn't a second set, there was no intermission, it was just on to playing a shit load of hits from other albums of theirs. Starting with the song "We're All In This Together" from his 2014 album Lo-Fantasy.
After that it was just hit after hit playing songs such as "Them Kids" from the Love At The End Of The World released in 2008. Then it was the big hits from their second album We Were Born In A Flame, "Don't Walk Away Eileen", "Hard Road", "Where Have All The Good People Gone" and closing out the night of his two hour long show was "Brother Down". After doing all of Chemical City which was great and the three quarters full Jubilee (my guess is 1800 in attendance) liked, it was the second half of the show that the crowd really ate it up. People were singing along, dancing in their seats and the aisles, a really good vibe through out the venue. all and all a really good show. Every time I see the Sam Roberts Band I always leave impressed by how good of a live band they are. Good times!
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