As promised here is my review from the BNL concert on April 1st in Calgary. It was great! As we were getting seated Anna questioned me about the tickets I purchased, “Do people that sit in these seats really get more nosebleeds?” Very funny. :)
The concert itself was a blast. Jason Plumb and Ron Sexsmith were the two opening acts. They seem like unknowns to me but Anna recognized Ron Sexsmith’s name and apparently Jason Plumb played for the Waltons — which I vaguely recall.
Anyway it was a great concert in which almost every song they played seemed like my favorite. I know I’m a big geek for this Canadian band, but whatever – it was fun. They played:
- Maybe Katie
- Too Little Too Late
- Enid
- Some Adlibing
- It’s All Been Done
- Another Postcard
- Celebrity
- More Adlib
- Never Is Enough
- I Live With It Every Day
- Roadrunner
- For You
- One Week
- Upside Down
- A Bass Solo
- Alternative Girlfriend
- Testing 1,2,3
- Never Do Anything
- Blame It On Me
- Shopping
- Concert Going
- Pinch Me
- War On Drugs
- Beat The Crew
- Shoe Box
- Old Apartment
- Brian Wilson
- Rio
- If I Had $1,000,000
- What A Good Boy
They weren’t planning on playing Alternative Girlfriend but got talked into it when someone in the audience held up a big sign that said quote/unquote Please let my husband drum Alternative Girlfriend with you. So they did. Ed told the audience that if he was at least half decent we should really cheer him on, but that if he sucked then we should beat him to a pulp. He was actually pretty good and it was really fun to watch. It’s stuff like that that makes a concert so memorable.
They had a fun choreographed shopping cart ballet in which they ran around with shopping carts, passed around boxes of cereal and made snow angels on the stage. They did three encore songs, which was more than the last time they were in Calgary, and I must say it was just a perfect concert.
Ed wrote about the concert tour and specifically about Calgary’s show. Ed and Steve are by far my favorite bloggers in BNL – not just because they do the majority of the singing.
