My first experience seeing Ted and the boys on foreign soil proved to be fruitful. Last night's show at Toronto's Mod Club was energetic as usual. James Canty of French Toast (and a few other bands you may have heard of) bolstered the sound with a second guitar and is as active on stage as the perpetually frenetic Leo. Dave Lerner and Chris Wilson meanwhile have continued to improve as a rhythm section par excellence. The show weighed heavily on the recently released Living With The Living, which in my opinion is Ted's most complete work to date. Ted was up to his usual between song banter referencing the might of the New Jersey Nets (currently ensconced in a playoff battle with the Toronto Raptors) which led to some anti-Jersey heckling. Overall, an excellent show. I forgot to bring paper and a writing instrument but this is my best memory of the set list order (hey, I'm not Fluxblog man).Mod Club, Toronto, ON 5/2/07
My Vien Ilin (intro)/Sons of Cain/Dial Up/Me & Mia/Army Bound/Colleen/Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone/Counting Down the Hours/The High Party/Annunciation Day.../Bomb Repeat Bomb/Old Souls Know/A Bottle of Buckie/Little Dawn/The Unwanted Things/The Lost Brigade /Biomusicology
Encore
Dirty Old Town/Timorous Me/Walking to Do/Rappaport's Testament: I Never Gave Up
3 comments:
Hey Spaeder -it's Dino (Rubino). There's a new indie band im into - Beef Trust - I think they're on the bongload label, do you know them?
Wow. Just got back to Providence from the Boston show. Un-freakin'-real. James Canty is a great addition. Ted Leo's shirt had gone from light green to dark green after about two songs. If I didn't already have a man-crush on John Lackey, I'd have a man-crush on Chris Wilson. But I must say...nothing is better than watching Dave Lerner for two hours. He has two speeds: 1) I'm completely bored out of my mind (this song rocks big time) and 2) I'm completely bored out of my mind and might actually kill myself on stage (this song only sorta rocks). Never gets old.
Pretty much the same set list with a few additions: The Angels' Share/Who Do You Love?/La Costa Brava. And of course the highlight of the evening...a brief cover of Daft Punk's "One More Time". I am not joking.
That didn't take long...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ted+leo+avalon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMS38l9Ad1E
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