April 21st

  The gig poster from the time I saw the one hit wonders Marcy Playground at the Century Casino in Edmonton on April 21st, 2011. I don't even recall how I got on the guest list for this show.

12 Years Ago Today...April 21st

It was twelve years ago today that I saw Danko Jones play at Red's here in Edmonton.





As well, it was two years ago today that I saw Marcy Playground play at the Century Casino here in Edmonton. I won tickets for this show of one hit wonders.

Marcy Playground in Concert 04.21.2011

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.