First off, thank you Anami. Thank you for letting me use flash and go to town with it. I’m sorry if you were seeing spots for the rest of the night.

Second, great show. Although the venue wasn’t packed from wall to wall, the people that were there had enough energy and excitement to fill the room: they were Anami’s dedicated following of true fans.

Anami played all of the tracks from his latest album, They Made Me Do It, to a crowd that couldn’t have been happier to be part of the album’s release party… they were all super stoked, ryhming along with Anami the whole night. It obviously helps that Anami has a couple sing-along-with-me tracks that make it easy for even new listeners to learn his rhymes quickly. At one point Anami and band even gave us some “Ice Ice Baby”.

Best song of the night was “Take Your Shirt Off”. It’s a great party song. Right after the song, and after seeing how stoked everyone was to hear it, Anami admitted that they should have saved the best for the last. S’alright Anami, you followed it up with some other gems.

Download his album for free at anamivice.com

Also, make sure to check these links out:

Album Review: Anami Vice – They Made Me Do It

They Made Me Do It: Vancouver’s Anami Vice On His New Album

Oh and if you like the shirt he’s wearing of Lauren Conrad taking her shirt off, go to beaverwax.com

Review by: Alicia
Photos by: David Thai

I’m not really sure where to start because Metric has left me pretty blown away. They played their last show of their Canadian tour at the exquisite Orpheum theatre in Vancouver last night, to a crowd that was eager to soak up some pretty awesome Canadian talent.

Opening for Metric was Zeus. They were alright. To be honest, it seemed like they were just wanting to get through their set. Mind you, I don’t blame them. It must be tough being an opener when you see an ocean of empty seats infront of you and you know those seats are empty because everyone’s outside having a drink, waiting for the headliners to hit the stage. Nonetheless, they did have some decent songs, their best being ”That’s All” (too bad it’s a cover song – original by Genesis). As soon as Zeus strummed their last note and said thanks and goodbye, a mob of youngins flew to the stage to get good spots for Metric only to have security kibosh their front row dreams seconds later by sending them all back to their seats. Ha!

Metric took to the stage and instantaneously blew everyone away. Not only was Emily Haines wearing a short, backless, gold sequined number, her voice was…angelic. Yeah, I just called it that. I had never heard Metric live and I was pleasantly surprised. They started with “Twilight Galaxy” and played against a background of flying stars. Like I said, angelic.

They had a simple stage but really cool backgrounds. The screen was split into four sections, one camera on each bandmate, and used what looked like a thermal filter/camera. They also had light bulbs dangling from the light rafters to match their Fantasies album cover.

At one point in the set Haines yelled, “You gotta fight, for your right, to paaaaaarty”…obviously the crowd ate that up. She also said something along the lines of how it’s time for the A.D.D myspace generation to produce another band like Led Zeppelin and that “it’s not about romanticizing the past but acknowledging what sucks from the present.” The band then broke into ” Gimme Sympathy” which got the already wired crowd jumping and moshing (well as much as you can mosh in the Orpheum).

Best tracks of the night were “Help I’m Alive”, “Gold Gun Girls”, “Stadium Love”, and her acoustic version of “Combat Baby” which she devoted to another music artist and friend of the band, Torquil Campbell, and which could have easily brought anyone to tears: it was beautiful.

The only problem of the night was Haines’ hair. Honestly, I get it’s wispy and there’s only so much you can do with it, but please, tie it up and show us your gorgeous face. And although it was cool that she was headbanging, her hair wasn’t so cool after the headbanging. I also didn’t realize that Haines was so spastic. Her spastic movements don’t match her smooth, seductive voice.

Despite her stage antics, Haines and the rest of Metric were incredible. Not only would I argue that Fantasies is one of 2009’s best albums, I think Metric is one of the best bands I’ve seen live.

Huge thanks goes to Metric and their PR dude Myles. We loves y’all.

Well…the show started with a bang. Whether the bang was from opener Foxy Shazam’s sudden first song or  the doors being blown off the travelling (freak show) circus tent, I’m not sure. What I do know is that you should  lock your doors and hide under your bed. Seriously.

It’s not that I didn’t like opening band Foxy Shazam, they’re just insane. They’re good performers but their music is just…meh. The entire time they were on stage I felt like I was watching a Baz Luhrmann movie about a travelling circus. Lead singer Eric Sean Nally, sporting rubber gloves, started the night off by saying, “if the lord picked this building up and turned it sideways, I’d hold onto that pole right over there…” and then…BANG. Madness ensued.

The stage was alive with the blur of shaggy hair. Although they were slightly frightening, they were definetly an energetic bunch. Keyboardist Schuyler Vaughn White was doing some sort of freaky-eyed gorilla jig while trumpet master Alex Nauth was proudly showing off the rip down the ass of his jeans (thankfuly he was wearing boxers – it would have been so, so unfortunate had he not been).

I think the best part of Foxy Shazam’s set were the one-liners Eric sprouted before or after each song. Some of the best were:

“Keep the flowers, the only way to my heart is with an axe,”

“I need love and Christmas presents,” and his sign off at the end of the set,

“Sometimes I wish I had a mirror on stage so that I could look at myself when I sing.”

After the crowd had some time to get over the opening act escapade, The Sounds hit the stage, sans leading lady, playing a short one minute, rock ballad. Out of nowhere a petite little firebolt clad in those faux leather looking tights, hot hot heels, a retro bomber jacket, Mr.T chains, and Charlie’s Angels wind-blown hair,  took the stage for what ended up being a rockin’ concert.

Lead singer Maja Ivarsson is incredible. Think Emily Haines from Metric meets Martina Sorbara from Dragonette, wearing a white t-shirt, drenched with Absolut Vodka. The woman has spunk, and let me tell you, she cusses more than a sailor. She also made sure to chain smoke on stage, climb all over whatever was on stage while in platform heels,  and crowd surf.  I’m pretty sure she also grinded up on one bouncer (happiest moment of his life) and made out with another (dont hold me to that, there were a lot of people in front of me). During “Night after Night” she asked everyone to sing along while waving their cellphones and lighters: I’ve never seen people whip out their phones so quickly. She had the crowed wrapped around her pinky.

The rest of the band was also pretty rad. The guitar riffs during “4 Songs and a Fight” were awesome and the bass during “Tony the Beat” was ridiculous.

Best songs of the night for me were “No One Sleeps”, “4 Songs and a Fight”, “Beatbox”, “Painted by Numbers”, “Tony the Beat”, and  ”Hope You’re Happy Now”.

Foxy Shazam’s Vancouver Set List:
Introducing
Wannabe Angel
Killin’ It
Bye Bye Symphony
Yes Yes Yes
Evil Thoughts
Rocketeer
Axe!!!

The Sounds’ Vancouver Set List:
Crossing the Rubicon
Queen of Apology
Seven Days a Week
No One Sleeps
Hurt You
Midnight Sun
Rock ‘n’ Roll
Night after Night
4 Songs and a Fight
My Lover
Beatbox
Dorchester Hotel
Painted by Numbers
Living in America
Ego
Encore:
Tony the Beat
Song with a Mission
Hope You’re Happy Now

Definitely check them out if they’re in your city, because as Maja kept saying, “You ain’t seen nothing yet bitches!”

Gallery: Foxy Shazam in Vancouver

Gallery: The Sounds in Vancouver

Band: Dead Man’s Bones, Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields
Date: Oct 24 2009
Photographer: David Thai
Production: Sealed With A Kiss
Location: Venue in Vancouver

Images from last nights MEN and Gossip concert at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. The band MEN was amazing, their set was around 45 minutes long. The band consists of Michael O’Neill, Ginger Brooks Takahashi and JD Samson of Le Tigre, collectively they play some damn good ass live dance music. During MEN’s set members of Gossip joined them on stage holding signs / props in the background, Beth Ditto also was holding a sign as seen below. As for Gossip, what can I say, nothing short of amazing. Beth Dittos’ voice, what you hear on CD is essentially what you hear live in concert, even if she was just coming off of a cold as she would explain to the crowd, giving everyone the heads up in case she couldn’t hit certain notes. Honestly you couldn’t tell.

Great show and production work put on by Timbre Productions, check their website, www.timbreproductionsconcerts.com, for more upcoming shows.

MEN’s set of photos.

Gossip Photo Gallery

Saturday, October 18th Vancouver got to experience a taste of awesomeness known as Dragonette when they stopped in town at Venue. This was the third or fourth stop on their North American tour which was announced earlier this month. I have to say before going into the show I had developed a slight kindergarten crush on Martina Sorbara and her voice and I was not disappointed in the live aspect of it all. It’s hard to describe this woman, as she seems to have a vortex about her that draws you in, whether she realizes or not. A fan yelled out “You’re so cute!” and her response, a brief stage dance to get everybody laughing.

Their set started off with the single from their first album, “I Get Around”. I’m sure you’ve heard of it and not even realized it. Being that this is a fan favorite it was only natural that the folks in the venue cheered and sang along with Martina. For their set performance the band had gone back and forth on songs from their debut album and latest effort, Fixin to Thrill. From the debut album they performed the aforementioned “I Get Around”, “Take It Like A Man”, “Black Limousine”, “Competition” and “True Believer”. Full set list is below.

The night ended with the song “Fixin To Thrill”. The song started off on this heavy spacey synth sound that wasn’t recognizable, that is until the guitar riffs came in and everyone realized what was about to played. The place went off. When the song ended folks just didn’t want to leave and cheered for an encore and after a few minutes they received one. The band performed a song that’s on neither album and I thought I heard Martina say it was one of her songs, but I’m not completely sure.

As for the pictures below, the venue we were shooting in is quite dark and they have potential for great lighting, but clearly opt not to use it, hence the majority of my shots turning out black & white. A few of the shots are below but for the full gallery head on over to our Flickr page, www.flickr.com/photos/killahbeez.

Keep it locked on Killahbeez as we will be dropping our interview with Martina Sorbara of Dragonette later in the week.

Set list:
I Get Around
Gone Too Far
Take It Like A Man
Big Sunglasses
Liar
Stupid Grin
Black Limousine
Easy
Competition
True Believer
Pick Up The Phone
Okay Dolore
My Summer (track didn’t make the album)
Fixin To Thrill

Thanks to Universal Music and Live Nation.

Dragonette MySpace: www.myspace.com/dragonette

A few days ago we were invited by Timbre Productions to check out the Juliette Lewis concert that took place in Vancouver at the Commodore Ballroom. Here are some of the photos from that concert, I didn’t get a chance to stick around and listen to too many of her songs as we had that Random Long weekend part down at The Modern I had to make my way down to. But the three or four songs I heard weren’t too bad, the crowd was semi-thin, as this was a long weekend, Thanksgiving weekend to be exact.

Apologies on the quality of the photos, it was dark, like black dark for a good portion of the 1st song and we were only allowed to shoot 2 songs.

I was able to snag her set list.

Set list:
Romeo
Into
Purgatory
Ghosts
Fantasy Bar
Pray
Hard Lovin Woman
Terra
Sticky
Uh Huh
Speaking
Suicide
Hot Kiss (Encore)

Thanks to Timbre Productions, check their site out for upcoming shows.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs performed at the 9:30 club this past Friday night to a sold out show. Considering I had never seen them live, I knew before the show even started that I was about to witness something spectacular, and I was right. Karen O, Brian Chase, and Nick Zinner, took the stage exactly at 10:30pm to a crowd of screaming fans. I literally felt the excitement in the air and braced myself as Karen O reached for her mic.

They opened the show with “Dull Life” which is from their current album titled “It’s Blitz!” Karen O’s stage presence definitely was not dull, in fact it was the opposite. From head to toe she was covered in color so you couldn’t help but stare at her. As she jumped and twirled around the stage, it was obvious that she was born to do this. In between songs she would take sips of her water (or alcoholic beverage) and spit it out into the air like a true rocker. Her wildness was contagious.

Surprisingly they played a lot of oldies including “Gold Lion,” “Y Control,” and “Kiss, Kiss.” Once they bowed and left the stage, the audience only wanted more from them, so for their encore they kicked it off with “Maps” and everyone sang along. It was sad to see the show come to an end because clearly I wanted them to stay on stage and play some more songs. I did however come to the conclusion that Karen O is a rock goddess and she has a talent unlike no other. I think the pictures say it all.

Once again, a special thanks to 9:30 club for letting Killahbeez attend this amazing show!

All photos by Quyen Nguyen

Words by Alicia
Photography by David Thai

Pearl Jam and opener Ben Harper played GM place in Vancouver on Friday night to a packed house. PJ played 26 songs, ten of which were part of 2 encores. I’m impressed with PJ’s work ethic. They made sure everyone got their money’s worth. It was a great show made better by a great opening act.

I was worried that GM Place’s echo was going to eat Harper alive. He just seems like a small venue type of guy. Well…Harper killed it. I’ve been used to the Harper that tells me that I have “Diamonds on the Inside” (cheesy, I know). Although Harper has always had some rock roots, his latest album White Lies for Dark Times is definetly all rock, with a few songs reminiscient of the sound he’d adopted over the last few years. It was hard to listen to Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) after Harper.

By the time PJ hit the stage, the house was packed and ready to rock. I have to say, I struggled with Vedder’s vocals. I struggled to make out a lot of the lyrics. His vocals were muffled for a lot of the concert. You only knew what he was saying if you knew the song.

Nonetheless, PJ has great musicians. I’m a big fan of their latest album Backspacer so I was happy to hear “The Fixer”, “Got Some”, “Just Breathe”, and “Unthought Known” from that album. They did a great job of playing an array of favourites from all of their albums, all of which have a different sound and show their development as a band. I think the biggest crowd pleasers were “The Fixer, “Even Flow”, “Unknown Thought”, “Love, Reign O’er Me (The Who cover)”, “Indifference “, “Better Man”… actually, there were a lot of crowd pleasers.

All of the members in Pearl Jam are great musicians so their guitar riffs and percussion rhythms were fantastic.

Right after “Unknown Thought”, frontman Vedder started reminiscing about how when he was younger, a Canadian had inspired him to make something of himself and be a part of the greater good. That Canadian was Terry Fox. Vedder said something along the lines of how PJ drove across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax during their last Canadian tour in 2005, and how they thought it took forever. Then he remember that they actually flew, not drove, and that they still felt like it took forever, so they can’t believe the strength Terry Fox had to do what he did.

Vedder announced that PJ would be donating $20,000 from the Vancouver ticket sales to the Terry Fox Foundation. PJ have been huge activists for various causes since the day of their inception. PJ got back to the music by dedicating their next song of the night, “Light Years”, to Terry.

PJ continued to rock out to an enthusiastic crowd, and finish their set strong with “Rearviewmirror”. As per usual, after much cheering, PJ came back for an encore which included one of the best songs of the night, The Who cover of “Love, Reign O’er Me”.

Just when people started leaving, PJ came back for their second encore, which in my opinion, was the best part of the show. Ben Harper joined them in singing “Indifference”: it was incredible. Harper’s voice once again floored me. And Vedder’s voice was the clearest it has been all night. For a second I thought I was in love. Sad, I know. Finishing off the encore, PJ sang “Better Man”, one of my all time favourite PJ songs. It was the perfect ending to the concert.

They once again said thank-you and goodbye, and then faked us out again by deciding to play one more song with the lights on and as the stairs were crowded full of people making a mad dash for the exit. PJ ended with “Yellow Ledbetter”.

Despite the lack of vocal clarity, the show was impressive. It’s kind of hard not to be impressed by such talented musicians. The band members have changed over the years, and there’s only been a few memorable records in the bunch of ten, but PJ can still pull off a great rock concert after 18 years.

Ben Harper Photos

Pearl Jam Photos

Here’s Pearl Jam’s set list:

In My Tree
Save You
The Fixer
Severed Hand
Johnny Guitar
Given To Fly
MFC
Even Flow
Amongst The Waves
Sad
Unthought Known
Light Years
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Grievance
No Way
Got Some
Rearviewmirror

Encore:

I Got Id
Love, Reign O’er Me (The Who cover)
Just Breath
State Of Love And Trust
Alive

Encore 2:

Last Kiss (Wayne Cochran cover)
Indifference (with Ben Harper)
Wasted Reprise
Better Man/Save It for Later
Yellow Ledbetter

On Sunday night I had the opportunity to photograph Franz Ferdinand at the Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park. Despite it being cold and raining fairly hard the concert was sold out and folks were amped for the outdoor concert. This was by far one of the hardest shoots I’ve done, being that it was raining and I was fumbling to try and protect my gear and the band playing fairly far back of the stage, which makes sense as that allowed the band to be under shelter as oppose to fully out in the open to the elements. I didn’t get a chance to stick around for a review because I had to run off to The Modern for our Random Long Weekend party, pics for that coming up soon as well. Until then, check out a few of the photos I took from the show.

Check out Livenation.com for upcoming Franz Ferdinand dates.

This past weekend saw Rock The Bells make a stop in Vancouver, taking place at the great outdoor venue, Deer Lake Park. There was an air of sadness surrounding the event, before it even started, as early that morning I found out that Baatin from Slum Village had passed away. Currently there are no details on the matter, we’re not sure if something happened en route to Vancouver, or in Vancouver. Nonetheless, respects to a legend, R.I.P. Baatin.

Respectively folks in attendance weren’t sure if Slum Village would still make their scheduled performance, but 2:30 rolled around and there they were, T3 and Elzhi, coming out and putting on a great show for everyone, performing all the classics, then taking a moment to remember their friend. I definitely can say I had chills during the whole time, just seeing these guys putting on a brave face and performing hard was nothing short of amazing.

There were a few changes in the lineup, as Canadians have come to expect when attending a hiphop concert. Customs can be a bitch to get through or in some cases not get through. Early in the day we were told that Pete Rock wasn’t going to be there, as well as K’Naan, Big Boi and KRS-One. B-Real was brought on to help Supernatural with hosting, but that was scraped and instead fans were treated with a full on performance of classic Cypress Hill joints. RZA was also added to the bill and he brought up Ol’Dirty Bastards son, he had a frightening resemblance to his father. Reflection Eternal had initially canceled as we were told by Livenation staff, but at the 11th hour, Hi-Tek and Talib Kweli made it to the stage and performed a slew of songs, but honestly did anybody hear any Reflection Eternal songs? I’m pretty sure they just did all Talib Kweli’s songs, correct me if I’m wrong here.

The final act saw Nas and Damian Marley together on stage, each performing their respective classics and essentially amping the crowd. Everyone pushed in closer and closer to the stage to try and catch some pictures, video or to simply take in the moment. It was a great way to end the festival.

Although our bill wasn’t as great as the original announced line-up, there’s no doubt that it was still a great festival. Check out a few of our pictures below and hit our flickr page for more pictures, lots more.

Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/killahbeez

Last and final set of photos from the Virgin Music Festival in Vancouver. This is just a sampling of the photos that were taken during Metric’s set. Emily Haines was pretty fun to shoot, gorgeous and full of energy and offering picture worthy poses.  The rest of the photos can be seen at our Flickr page, www.flickr.com/photos/killahbeez.

Ben Harper and his band was the final performers to take the stage at the Virgin Music Festival in Vancouver. The rest of the photos can be seen at our Flickr page, www.flickr.com/photos/killahbeez.

Sonic Youth photo gallery Virgin Music Festival in Vancouver. The rest of the photos can be seen at our Flickr page, www.flickr.com/photos/killahbeez.

Here’s a preview of the photo sets for De La Soul and Jarvis Cocker from Virgin Music Festival in Vancouver. The rest of the photos can be seen at our Flickr page, www.flickr.com/photos/killahbeez.

Here’s a brief look at the photo sets from Broken Social Scene set from Virgin Music Festival in Vancouver. The rest of the photos can be seen at our Flickr page, www.flickr.com/photos/killahbeez. Jimmy Shaw of Metric, K-OS and Stars, Torquil Campbell joined Broken Social Scene on stage.

Here’s a brief look at the photo sets from K-OS and Our Lady Peace sets from Virgin Music Festival in Vancouver. The rest of the photos can be seen at our Flickr page, www.flickr.com/photos/killahbeez.

This past weekend saw the Virgin Music Festival land in Vancouver at Deer Lake Park. Acts included Our Lady Peace, Metric, Sonic Youth, Broken Social Scene, Ben Harper, Jarvis Cocker and many many more.

This was a return of sorts as the Virgin Music Festival didn’t actually come to Vancouver last year. The first day had a great line-up, but was cut short due to a nasty thunderstorm. Organizers feared the worst and decided to cancel the rest of the first day after Our Lady Peace performed. The Roots were suppose to go on next but obviously that didn’t happen. Organizers did release an official statement saying that they do indeed plan to reschedule with The Roots and bring them back to Vancouver. Saturday ticket holders will be able to attend this future concert free of charge, no word yet on when they will be making their way back.

The second day was…well it was fuckin’ hot and I thought I was melting at several points throughout the day. But the line-up made was well worth the wait. Catching acts such as De La Soul, Jarvis Cocker, Sonic Youth, Metric and Ben Harper, what more could one ask for. All these main stage acts were epic and we’ll be dropping the gallery for you all very soon. Maybe all of them today. The crowd turnout on the second day was also a LOT better. Overall a decent return to Vancouver and hopefully it’ll continue building and becoming a mainstay in the Vancouver festival scene.

This summer has seen quite a few bands making a comeback, so to speak. No Doubt being one of them. My beef is with bands / artists making comebacks is that they don’t come full force with all they have, instead banking on their name. I’ve seen quite a few concerts where acts were making a comeback and it basically sucked. This was definitely not the case with No Doubt. On Saturday July 18th, they rocked GM Place in Vancouver.

Rewind to moments before they stepped onto the stage. I was chilling beside the stage waiting to get into the photo pit, when us photographers all spotted Gwen’s sons, Kingston, and little brother, Zuma. Cute as can be with their hearing protectors. All of a sudden the lights went out and a curtain was in place, the fans were cheering pretty loud at this point. The curtain drops and the madness ensues.

No Doubt starts the night off with the uptempo “Spiderwebs” and continued it with “Hella Good” before slowing it down a bit with, my personal favourite, “Underneath It All”. The whole time Gwen Stefani’s voice was strong and captured everyone’s ears, reminding us why we all loved No Doubt, in case we had forgotten over the years.

Aside from stating the obvious, that the concert was awesome. The details throughout the show were well thought out and resulted in a well produced show. An example of this was the background video, people generally don’t pay attention to this and with good reason, usually they suck or aren’t relevant. But No Doubt’s background video went with every song, for example, during “It’s My Life”, the video in the background to me looked like an updated version of the music video. The video opens in a dramatic sequence where Gwen Stefani gets up from a table with all the band members and is seen running off. Only to be seen later in a car driving around with tears. The other band members jump into a car to try and find her. All the while this song is being performed. It all synced up beautifully and made sense and this happened pretty much with every song.

With such a huge catalog of great songs, it was pretty hard to be disappointed with anything the band played. Name a song and they probably played it. In total their set was about 90 minutes long with 3 – 4 songs as their encore. The encore itself was pretty special as well, during one of the songs the two opening bands, Bedouin Soundclash and Paramore, came out and joined No Doubt on stage for a collective performance of “Stand and Deliver”. Overall the night felt like one big ass party and the band entertained all that was in their house that night.

To find tickets for the rest of their tour visit Livenation.com.

Setlist:

Spiderwebs
Hella Good
Underneath It All
Excuse Me Mr.
Ex-Girlfriend
End It On This
Simple Kind of Life
Bathwater
Guns of Navarone
New
Hey Baby
Running
Different People
Don’t Speak
It’s My Life
Just A Girl

Encore:

Rock Steady
Stand and Deliver
Sunday Morning

On Tuesday evening we were treated to The Juan MacLean concert in Vancouver, presented by Sealed With A Kiss. Earlier in the evening I had a chance to sit down with John MacLean and do a one on one interview where we talked about the album, inspirations and played a game called “Marry, Fuck or Kill”. We’ll have that interview transcribed and available for you all to check out soon.

The night started off with The Field playing their set. I’ve heard a few tracks here and there from the album and while some hold it in high regard, it really didn’t do anything for me. This translated into their live set, which simply put in one word: sucked. They really didn’t interact with the crowd at all, instead they chose to keep their heads down focused on their gear and mashing buttons like it was an NES controller. Though I suspect this must be their first tour, so things can only improve from here on out.

At 11:30ish John MacLean and Nancy Whang, whom also is part of LCD Soundsystem, took the stage and started the set off with “The Simple Life”. During my interview with John I asked if this song was inspired by a Donna Summer song called “I Feel Love” and he said that it was. Listen to the two songs and the build-ups and instrumentation’s. What also was cool during this whole live set was getting to see John play the Theremin, I never really understood how it was played and every time he went to play it I was admittedly in awe.

Watching the live show you soon realize that there isn’t a huge difference from what you hear on the album and the reason for that as John explained to me is because in the recording process he had his band play live in the studio, so the album experience and the live experience are pretty much the same with few slight differences. They played their latest single “One Day”, which had the crowd singing along with Nancy, “A New Bot”, “No Time”, and “The Station”. Their whole set was quite energetic and kept the crowd boogieing to the jams. This all of course lead to the last track of the night, “Happy House”, which was their first official single off of this album. Now the album version clocks in just over 12 minutes, while the live version, I kid you not, easily clocked in between 15 – 20 mins long. It was fairly epic to see them just go off on the song and just something about Nancy’s voice keeps you in check every so often when she drops her lines.

In the end I had a great night and enjoyed the music. The Juan MacLean had stage presence, kept the crowd dancing all night and just plain ol’ entertained us all. Thanks again to Sealed With A Kiss and thanks to Jesper for reaching out.