On the third day of The Toronto Urban Roots Festival, there's only one late-night headliner, so everyone gathered at the large East Stage to wish death to The Pixies, even after the last act had wrapped things up on the South Stage. The Pixies are yet another band that I'd never seen live before, so I was looking forward to hearing some of my favourite tunes in the glory of a late summer's night.
The band hit the stage with the cacophony and bombast that I expected, playing so many of the crowd's favourite tunes. It was an energizing and satisfying end to a fantastic festival weekend. I can't wait to spend another late-September weekend with TURF again next year.
Neko Case is an artist that I feel like I should have seen a long, long time ago. I remember that she played the first TURF, but the rain kept me away that day. This year's third day of The Toronto Urban Roots Festival was finally my chance. And I loved hearing her beautiful voice live.
Neko and a fantastic band performed a set of deep cuts promoting her recently-released box set Truckdriver, Gladiator, Mule. What I like best about Neko Case, besides her gorgeous voice and beautiful songs, is the fact that she positions her microphone high so she tilts her head towards it, kinda like Lemmy from Motörhead.
Major cop-out post. It's Christmas. I don't want to mess up the almost-a-full-year-of-a-post-every-day but I don't want to write/edit. So even though I posted Stars doing this song only a few days ago, here's The Pogues with Camille OSullivan (it was originally sung with the late Kristy MacColl) with "Fairytale of New York". Listen to the crowd singing along.
This still probably won't be the last time I post this song.
Heartless Bastards was the last act that I caught on the South Stage of The Toronto Urban Roots Festival for 2015. I've been listening to the band's alternative rock since their début album Stairs and Elevators in 2005. This marked my first time seeing the band live. I enjoyed their performance and I really hope I get to see them on stage again soon.
I was first introduced to BRMC through their appearance in the movie 9 Songs. They played "Whatever Happened to My Rock and Roll" and "Love Burns". I'd never seen this band live before and I dug their live presentation of their straight-up hard alternative rock. This was their last show before going away to work on a new album.
