I can’t rave enough about the Coldplay concert at Rogers Arena.
Chris Martin, the band’s chemistry, and energy was unbelievable.
Here’s a clip of the Mylo Xyloto concert finale:
Housse de Racket in Vancouver
April 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Housse de Racket’s synth-pop sound permeated the walls of Electric Owl last night. The French duo is on a North American tour, which kicked off at SXSW in Austin.
Pierre Leroux and Victor Le Masne was infectious on stage and got the crowd going despite not being a sold out show. Blame the long weekend for the poor attendance. If you don’t know who’s who, Victor is the one with the Burt Reynolds-esque beard/on drums and Pierre is on guitar. It’s a unique set up in that they play multiple roles because they both sing.
The duo did an hour long high energy set playing songs from Forty Love and their current album Alesia. I don’t understand a word of French but that didn’t stop me from dancing when they played “Roman” or clapping along during their performance of “Apocalypso”. I am still waiting to hear “Champions” live. Encore, encore!
Check out their website to see if they’re playing in your city.
Song of the Week: Shooting Stars
April 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I haven’t had a Friday night free since forever! This is just a happy and trippy song to celebrate the end of Term 2 for me.
Clap! Clap!
Shooting Stars – Bag Raiders
Song of the Week: Better Days
March 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Early song of the week dedicated to the concert I missed tonight.
Goo Goo Dolls played a sold out show at Commodore Ballroom in Downtown.
Come back soon! I promise to skip class the next time you’re in town!
“And you asked me what I want this year
and I try to make this kind and clear
just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days
’cause I don’t need boxes wrapped in strings
and designer love and empty things
just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days”
Better Days – Goo Goo Dolls
Song of the Week: Internet Killed the Video Star
January 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Internet Killed the Video Star, sings The Limousines.
It’s very timely for me to have discovered this song coming from the creative panel (c/o BCAMA) I attended today.
TBWA Vancouver, DDB and Rethink talked about their strategies for 2011. It was short and sweet for each speaker with just 7 minutes allocated to each of them. And all their points referred to coping with the changing media landscape.
Just like this song, which declares another revolution in the music industry. I grew up watching MTV and have seen the shift in focus of their programming. MTV is making so much more money on their reality shows, the music videos all but seem secondary.
The kids are disco dancing
They’re tired of rock and roll
I try to tell them “hey that drum machine ain’t got no soul”
The speakers talked about traditional media and what role it plays in a world where everything is becoming digitized. TV is far from becoming extinct, but as Stefan Hawes from TBWA pointed out ‘transmedia’ is the name of the game. Creating content that’s not only relevant for a single medium.
But they don’t want to listen no
They think they’ve heard it all
They trade those guitars in for drum machines and disco balls
It’s always about the shiny new thing and in this case its social media that’s grabbing people’s attention. But at the end of the day it remains to be seen whether the internet will really and truly kill the video star.
Did you hear what they said?
That rock and roll is dead?
Yeah it’s like a zombie it will dig it’s self back up again
Tune in the signal but it’s fading
Some ghost strumming his guitar on the radio
Internet Killed The Video Star by TheLimousines
Internet Killed the Video Star – The Limousines