Coheed & Cambria

So, this is a little belated, but about a month ago I went to see Coheed & Cambria at Elements in Kitchener. This was pretty strange/great for a few reasons, 1) They had just played Toronto over the summer (which I was also at) so this tour was pretty surprising, 2) I'm in Kitchener a ton and have friends there, and 3) Some of my friends there are obsessed with this band and inevitable dragged me to this show.

In Toronto the show's opener was Circa Survive (who I was really impressed with), but for this tiny Canadian tour the only support act was Fang Island. This was super disappointing - Fang Island reminded me of a tech-y post-hardcore band but with more keyboards and less singing. Very boring. My friend said they sounded like a Christian band. I'm not sure how that works when there isn't any singing, but there you go.

Coheed themselves were really good. This was the last date of this tiny tour, but instead of looking burnt out they seemed pretty loose. The mix wasn't great (too quiet on the vocals), but worked, and the crowd was really great (aggressive, but somewhat respectful).

The setlist was kind of a mixed bag. They focused mostly on their 2003 and 2010 albums, but didn't change much from the summer. Luckily, they rotated in new songs from 2002's 'Second Stage Turbine Blade' album. Overall, the show was great - if I hadn't seen them so soon previously, I probably would have preferred Kitchener.

the song that inspired the blog's name

So here's the song that I stole the blog's name from. It's pretty cool that Sonic Youth is still this good 20+ years into their career, too.

The name also became a great Canadian 90s band, so I'm not the first to use it.

For this blog I'm planning on posting about music and a few random thoughts. Either way it should be interesting.