Tuesday with Thornley
Thanks to some free tickets from my brother Colin via Zach Perkins, I was able to partake in a Thornley concert at the Odeon after work last night. Huzzah!
We got there at 7:40 and waited outside for 20 minutes to get through the doors...then we waited for an hour and 15 minutes for the warmup band to play! My feet and back were killing me from a long day at work, so the standing wait combined with my pet peeve for tardiness grated at me for some time, but the promise of seeing Thornley at the end of the night was well worth the discomfort.
Once we found out that the warmup band was simply a warmup for another warmup band, the audience got real antsy. 25 minutes had already passed in waiting for the next warmup band, and I don't think I could have endured another long wait for something I had no real interest in seeing anyway. Instead, Col and I decided to grab some grub at the Irish "restaurant" across the street (mmmm...chicken fingers) and we correctly predicted the time in which we thought that band would be done.
By the time we re-entered, the stage was already setup for the main event. And man, they didn't disappoint. Thornley was awesome. They played some songs from their current CD and some old ones I nearly forgot about. They also played the song "Shout" until the lead singer admitted he didn't know the words beyond the chorus...too funny! It was awesome when he stopped singing one particular song and let the crowd finish it for him. The last hour was well worth it!
$4 for two cups of Coke? Puhleeze.
One guy actually jumped the stage and started dancing until the lead singer shoved him off the stage. Not a smart thing to do, especially one week after that shooting at a concert in the US that killed the band's lead singer. I can only assume that he got a good beating in the back from security :)
Funniest moment of the night? The first warmup band made the mistake of mentioning that they were from Winnipeg. One guy (and it wasn't me, I swear) shouted out "RIDER PRIDE!!" The singer said, yeah the Bombers sucked this year. The same guy shouted back" THEY SUCK EVERY YEAR!!" They had no comeback for that one!
We got there at 7:40 and waited outside for 20 minutes to get through the doors...then we waited for an hour and 15 minutes for the warmup band to play! My feet and back were killing me from a long day at work, so the standing wait combined with my pet peeve for tardiness grated at me for some time, but the promise of seeing Thornley at the end of the night was well worth the discomfort.
Once we found out that the warmup band was simply a warmup for another warmup band, the audience got real antsy. 25 minutes had already passed in waiting for the next warmup band, and I don't think I could have endured another long wait for something I had no real interest in seeing anyway. Instead, Col and I decided to grab some grub at the Irish "restaurant" across the street (mmmm...chicken fingers) and we correctly predicted the time in which we thought that band would be done.
By the time we re-entered, the stage was already setup for the main event. And man, they didn't disappoint. Thornley was awesome. They played some songs from their current CD and some old ones I nearly forgot about. They also played the song "Shout" until the lead singer admitted he didn't know the words beyond the chorus...too funny! It was awesome when he stopped singing one particular song and let the crowd finish it for him. The last hour was well worth it!
$4 for two cups of Coke? Puhleeze.
One guy actually jumped the stage and started dancing until the lead singer shoved him off the stage. Not a smart thing to do, especially one week after that shooting at a concert in the US that killed the band's lead singer. I can only assume that he got a good beating in the back from security :)
Funniest moment of the night? The first warmup band made the mistake of mentioning that they were from Winnipeg. One guy (and it wasn't me, I swear) shouted out "RIDER PRIDE!!" The singer said, yeah the Bombers sucked this year. The same guy shouted back" THEY SUCK EVERY YEAR!!" They had no comeback for that one!
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