NXNE 2013: Day 2

0:05Friday, night, North by Northeast, well, there's more to just North by Northeast, going on the city, Lou, not a festival as well, as the David P. Gout Square, despite CBC building. Chaos is on stage now. Tonight is all about live performance. North by Northeast music festivals, all about live performance, and tonight is no different. So we're gonna go find out what makes a good live performance, what do bands go to see when they go to a concert, what do they look for in a show? Chaos is up now, or to go chair of the national young and then that square. Stick around, today's all about live performance on MFS. Everything I love is all, we take love. Everything I love is all to see. I'm proud of love. I'll never be into the world. I'll never be into the world.

0:52I love it when a band gets into the music. They can, if they obviously like what they're doing and enjoy the music that they've made, and they're talking to the audience and just smiling and enjoying themselves, jumping around, doing whatever it takes to have fun and make the audience have fun. I've played so many shows and been in bands for a long time that I'm so super critical when I go see a show and I totally tear it apart in my mind. Which kind of takes away the magic of it. Like it's hard to just enjoy it for what it is, but when I do see a show I love, it's good songs, good songwriting, good parts that everyone's playing and yeah, that they're into it. And also I've played so many shows, it's got to be super loud.

1:39Or I've got to feel it in my chest. I've got to feel that snare and kick in my chest. Look who I ran into, it's a fast romantic. I don't know, we just saw Sloan, so maybe this is fresh in my mind, but the drummer for Sloan, Andrew. Andrew Scott, holy crap. Like he just digs in and he's just so focused and every hit on the snare is just like, it's just, he's really intense and that is what I look for. Somebody who cares, you care too. Yeah, I do, I try, I try.

2:25Well, not, yeah, I'm just. For me, it's more, however long it takes me to take out my phone, right? It's the same as in a movie. If you get out your phone, you're disinterested. So we're outside the Great Hall here. Now you might say why are you in the fast romantic so Sloan video footage? What happened there? Well, Sloan got a little busy things, a little hectic, a little crazy. It is their murder records, 21st anniversary party. And if you saw the show with Sloan back in the fall, they were talking about doing a peppermint EP show, because they weren't sure how they were going to tour it after the twice removed tour. And well, this was the peppermint EP show. And it was amazing, but didn't have a chance to talk with them, which is too bad. But we're about to go chat with the matinee, go check them out at the supermarket. They are the band to know if you want an emerging act, the matinee at the supermarket. When I go to see a live show, I'm never looking for honesty.

4:00I want artists that can truly convey the emotion that's in their songs and give it their all. I don't want to hear an album. I want to see a band play the songs and play the shit out of them, because I can listen down at home. So a band that makes me sweat just watching them is a band I want to see. The matinee, one of my favorite bands in the entire world, I'm telling you, they are the next big thing in Canada. Just amazing. One more band to check out tonight at the Riveley. We're heading down to go see We Are The City. But tomorrow on the show, we've got paper lions in flight safety, catch harbor wolves. Hopefully, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald might make another pop-up appearance and a whole bunch of other great stuff, one last day at North by Northeast. And there's so much music awards. But tonight, we are The City coming up. I would say that I look for something new.

5:04Something new. That's kind of like something extravagant. You know what? There's this moment that we went to a show earlier, actually. And I had this moment. There's a moment that usually happens between the three of us or between at least two of us, where something happens on stage. And it's just like, you have to reach out and be like, oh, dude. It comes in all different forms. It's different every time. But we saw we are scientists. Great. Great, great. Super so tight and very loud, which is very cool. Very cool. And there was this sudden polyrhythm, I guess, that came in. It was very sudden and very short. Sort of like an arpeggio polyrhythm, which is something that I think we like that. We like that. And it just came in all of a sudden and was gone.

5:50And I actually reached across, not across people's fronts. But I wound my hand through the crowd to tap any other shoulder and go, dude, wow. It's usually like this. Yeah, yeah. It's just melted up because nobody wants to like, we always usually have a show after the shows we're watching. And nobody wants to wreck their voice for singing.