Tegan & Sara Review

So, before we get into this post - there's a new Review up at my Review Blog... on the Neutragena Wave. Go read it. we'll wait for you.


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OKAY! Welcome back! Wasn't that HILARIOUS!?

This week i went to see Tegan & Sara. This concert was way different than the one i went to last time they came

First off, the concert was bigger and was being held at the "Thee-ah-tah", y'know with seats and dimmed lights and all that jazz. My friend and i were seated in the fourth row of the first balcony, pretty good seats, all said.

The opening band was "An Horse" who were pretty good. I'm thinking about looking into their album.

So, finally the moment arrived: Tegan and Sara were about to hit the stage. Where i was sitting, i had a really good view of the floor. In the first song, 3 girls in the front row stood up and started dancing. Within seconds, another girl a few seats away stood up and danced her way over... as the song wore on, i saw people starting to fill the winglike walkways of the main floor... people in rows 2 and 3 began standing up because they couldn't see over the 4 dancing girls... then - and it was totally weird and i'll never forget it as long as i live, as if the entire main floor had one mind, they all stood up and rushed the stage. Climbing over seats, piling into the first few rows... it was weird.

anyway, So after the song Tegan says to the crowd (paraphrasing of course) "Okay, i'm going to make you a deal - you guys can stay where you are as long as you promise that you stop flashing your boobs, you don't bang on the stage, no one falls down, and no one gets hurt, okay?" Anyway - when Tegan & Sara have to tell the audience THREE TIMES to stop flashing their boobs,... you should stop fucking flashing your boobs already!
(I wrote a review for the ticketmaster website, but it got taken off, probably cuz i said Boobs - i didn't say fuck, though, i save that for you <3)

Now, T&S are good musicians, and i love their tunes, but real fans know that one of the reasons to see them live is for the hilarious banter. This time? there was hardly any of the banter because every time one of them would speak or try to tell a story - someone from the audience would scream something unintelligible.

At one point Sara was like: "You guys know you're not at a hockey game, right?"
I can hardly blame them for not doing as much story telling and banter as they usually do, i can't imagine how distracting those screaming morons would be... they were distracting ME and i wasn't even on stage.

My friend, Lexi, said to me: "It's like their teachers in elementary school!" and about five minutes later Sara said; "y'know, sometimes we aren't just musicians, but we have to be teachers and policemen too"

The crowd kept screaming out titles of songs they wanted to hear. Eventually Tegan just told us all what the set list would be, saying "yeah, we're going to play all those songs, just not right now." Like, way to take the fun out of it, little groupie lesbians!*

Also, one time while Sara was telling a story, Tegan suddenly put her guitar down on the floor, walked up to the stage and 'had words' with the front row... Sara was all like: "Wow, Tegan is MAD"

Anyway, the stupid audience aside - the show was really good. They played a lot of stuff from their new album Sainthood which i hadn't heard before - but i loved all the tunes instantly - and that almost never happens when i go to a show and hear the 'New Stuff'. I bought the album on vinyl (NERRRRRD) and B-rad and i listened to it last night. It just is so catch and a little edgy and you can hear the maturity in the sound. Y'know? like, this is their sixth album - they've come a long way from This Business of Art.

The songs are short - and they average about 3 minutes. Some times it feels like they're just getting started into a really good groove and then the song is over, but this probably stems from my love of prog rock where the average song is about 6 or 7 minutes long. Actually, as b-rad pointed out last night, the last two tracks on the album starting with "Sentimental Tune" feels like it's building and building up and could run right into "Someday" and be one long song. The tempo, the key, the feel is similar. anyway.

"SENTIMENTAL TUNE"



"SOMEDAY"


What do you think?

This may be my new favourite album, or at least its up there with So Jealous

The girls were great, the drummer kicks ass, the bass player is calm under pressure - given the circumstances it was a pretty good show. Just kick out those morons from the front row and it would have been perfect.

*I'm only guessing that it was lesbians flashing their boobs at Tegan and Sara. I think it's a pretty accurate assumption, but i just wanted to point out that i don't actually know.