Satisfaction... Back from the Tegan and Sara concert!

What an awesome night! I had my doubts whether I was going to pull off attending this thing tonight, but this cold I'd been fighting subsided, and I hit the road for Baltimore around 4:30PM after seeing my mom quick and paying my rent. Everything about tonight was smooth and that's exactly what I needed... I got there easily, no real traffic, scored some $5.00 parking, got in line early, ended up right up front for the show, scored some cool band stuff to take home, and got back on the road for home with no trouble at all. Got a little sleepy along the way, so I hit up a Rutter's around York for coffee (which kinda explains why I'm posting now even though I am so physically tired), but yeah... awesome show, awesome night!!!

The opening act was a band from San Antonia, Texas, named Girl in a Coma. I''d never heard of them until seeing them on the bill for the show. Their stuff is edgier than I normally go for, but I really enjoyed their set and seeing them live! I picked up their disc Both Before I'm Gone. This is a video for the album's second track, "Say".



The second act of the night was St Catharine, Ontario, Canada's City and Colour, which is a side project of Dallas Green, who serves as rhythm guitarist and singer for the Canadian post-hardcore group Alexisonfire. I'll admit I've never been exactly a fan of Alexisonfire, but Green's stuff I really enjoy! For a lone guy and a guitar he put on a damn fine set, and the crowd really enjoyed his stuff. My favourite track is "Coming Home", and I fortunately got to see him perform it tonight! The song was the 2nd single from his 2005 album, Sometimes. The Nova Scotia reference was probably what really caught my heart's attention the first time I heard it.

"I’ve been through Nova Scotia, Sydney to Halifax
I’ll never take any pictures cause I know I’ll just be right back"

I've lived that line. Damn I miss The Maritimes...



And last, but certainly not least... Tegan and Sara. They performed all the stuff I wanted to hear, but "Monday, Monday, Monday"(my only minor complaint), their banter between songs was hilariously top notch, and they crammed such a variety of their older and newer material into the set plus two new songs which I was very thrilled to hear!

I've posted so much about them already this week, but here's two tracks I truly loved hearing tonight...

"Living Room"



"The Con"



And that's my post concert run down... and speaking of rundown, I really need some sleep now! It's been fun to post though about such a fantastic night! And I have a cool new T to sport at the shop tomorrow! Keen indeed!