sloan!

Lining up for the Sloan concert. Rand and I were first in line!


Rand and I had a great time at the Sloan concert in Kitchener last night. For those unfamiliar with the Canadian band, Sloan has been around for about 10 years; Rand got me hooked on them recently.




Sloan poster on front door of Elements nightclub.


Worried about lineups, we showed up at the front door of the venue about an hour beforehand and ended up being first in line. Chatted a bit with some of the people behind us; holy cow, did I ever feel out of it in terms of the current music scene. :-) I think I'll definitely have to do a comic based on this conversation eventually.




We had a quick dinner at the diner across the street from
Elements before the show.


Rand and I opted to stand as close to the front as possible. The advantage of our position was that we got to see everything close-up. The disadvantage was that the sound system in the nightclub was such that the vocals were better heard from further back; from where we were standing, we heard Patrick's guitar more clearly. Didn't matter to me in the end, though....I had a huge amount of fun anyway, and was familiar with most of the songs.



The warm-up band, Blinker the Star.


Sloan played all the songs from their new album, Action Pact, plus some others (thanks to fan Rob Butcher for posting this list online):

Gimme That
Live On
Rest of my Life
Lines You Amend
Hollow Head
Nothing Last Forever Anymore
Great Wall
People of the Sky
Backstabbin'
Coax Me
False Alarm!
I Was Wrong (and I don't care)
Who Loves Life More?
Good In Everyone
Ready For You (c'mon back!)
Sensory Deprivation
Fade Away
The Other Man
Money City Maniacs
Reach Out
I Am the Cancer (Joy Division version)
If it Feels Good, Do it!




Security guard and crowd.


Here's someone else's report from the concert (found out about it because she posted in my LJ in response to this Blathering :-)). She and a friend brought a sign asking Sloan to play "I Am the Cancer"...and Sloan did!

The rest of the photos on this page are from the concert itself. If you're interested in finding more about Sloan, visit their Web site at http://www.sloanmusic.com/.




Chris Murphy.





Patrick Pentland. Shaved his head!





Andrew Scott. Usually on drums.





Jay Ferguson.





Chris on drums (normally Andrew's on drums).





Patrick and Chris.





Andrew, Chris and Jay.

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