Supercrawl 2019: Dilly Dally - Concert Photos

Dilly Dally is one of my favourite live bands and I'm always up for one of their shows. I saw the intense and powerful band at Supercrawl a few weeks back. As always, they put on a strong show including tunes from their latest album Heaven and their debut Sore. The crowd soaked it up and acted it out in the pit, sometimes a little too enthusiastically.

Check out my previous coverage of Dilly Dally when I saw the at The Danforth Music Hall and my first experience of them at Riverfest Elora.

I also caught sets by Stars and Begonia. Please click on those band names to see my photos, read some words and hear some fantastic music.

And please check out some of Dilly Dally's music:

"I Feel Free", "Sober Motel", "Doom", "Sorry Ur Mad", "Believe", "Marijuana", "The Touch", "Desire", "Bad Biology", and "Heaven"

"Purple Rage"

Dilly Dally at The Danforth Music Hall - Concert Photos

I love seeing bands that I like more than once but I don't usually come up with many new insights to use to describe them.

Dilly Dally came away as one of my favourite experiences at Riverfest Elora. Singer's style of switching from sweetness to growl and complete natural comfort in front of the crowd is all part of the experience. They tweeted out that they were scaring Grouplove fans and I believe it, although I'm sure they won over more than they truly scared off. With a home town Toronto crowd I'm sure there were many people like me who were there just as much to see Dilly Dally as Grouplove.

They're a great band. I prescribe a consistent dose of their music followed by a live music treatment.

Listen to them, if you please:

"Desire"

"Purple Rage"

"The Touch"

"Snakehead"

Riverfest Elora 2016: A compendium of posts - Concert Pictures

This year marked my first time attending and covering Riverfest Elora. It was a fun, well organized and well curated festival that I'll certainly have in my calendar for next year. I recommend you do, too!

Check out some shots I took around the festival and click through to the individual posts on each artist that I caught at Riverfest.

Day 1

Walk Off The Earth

Dilly Dally

Bossie

Dear Rouge

Fast Romantics

Highs

The Wet Secrets

Day 2

Chromeo

Radio Radio

Jeremy Fisher

Matthew Good

The Slackers

John River

The Rural Alberta Advantage

Busty and The Bass

Lee Watson

Kardinal Offishall

Young Rival

Rich Burnett

The Zolas

Ivory Hours

Raven Shields

Whitney Rose

Stella Ella Ola

Alexandria Maillot

Day 3

The Sheepdogs

54*40 Unplugged

DCF

Hey Rosetta!

Yukon Blonde

The Medicine Hat

Wintersleep

Grand Analog

Reuben and The Dark

Bry Webb

Brandon Wolfe Scott

Good For Grapes

Riverfest Elora 2016: Day 1: Band 5: Dilly Dally - Concert Pictures

Dilly Dally is another one of those bands whose gigs have been on my list and for one reason or another, I've just never seen them live. They were one of the can't-miss bands on this year's Riverfest Elora line-up and they turned out to be the biggest highlight of the festival's first day.

Dilly Dally trade in heavy sounds and emotions. There's grunge and punk and alternative rock all mixed in with a unique edge and commitment. Influences are clear but sound fresh. The way the powerful chords give way to melodic verses and dynamically shift up to powerful chorsues with such emotional vocal delivery is so satisfying to the soul. It's aggression that gives peace; discord that displays grace. Their live show is intense and satisfying.

Dilly Dally's album Sore is available now and in my humble opinion, the album and their live show deserve your attention.

Give this must-see-live band's music some love:

"Desire"

"Purple Rage"

"The Touch"

"Snakehead"