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ra ra riot opened the show, and they were awesome. i was excited to see them open on such a big show, i mean, to open for tegan and sara AND city and colour. amazing! high fives to the band. even more amazing was watching both tegan and sara rock out to their set from the sidelines. so cute and so supportive!
i've chosen to avoid writing about the next band. they were perhaps the most boringest, most repetitive act i've ever had the misfortune of seeing live. i know, it sounds harsh, but they did have a really catchy song out last year...so i really expected more. (cough-wintersleep-cough). as an aside, d kept calling them 'wintersale', which at the very least kept me amused while trying to determine if they were still playing the same song, or if this was yet another that sounded the same...
next up? tegan and sara! yaaaaay! the ladies were just as lovely as they've been all of the other times we've seen them. the set was super fun, they played the most popular songs from all of their albums. their slowed down version of 'walking with a ghost' was rad, and their acoustic version of 'feel it in my bones' pleased the crowd as usual. when they left the stage i had an inkling they'd be back up with city and colour some sort of performance, dallas green and the ladies are good friends, so it seemed a no brainer. aaand i was right! more on that later.
city and colour closed out the show, and colour me impressed! to date, i've always liked a few of their songs, but i really wasn't prepared for the amazingness of dallas green's voice. boy can sing! like plaster you against the wall vocals with the prettiest acoustic guitar riffs. i've definitely been converted. entire city and colour albums will be added to my itunes this week! towards the end of the show dallas asked for his two 'friends' to join him onstage to sing one of his newest songs. apparently tegan only learned it the day before. love improved performances. dallas explained that he had written the song about the oil spill. you can see the video i captured below. apologies for some of the shakiness, d and i had retreated from the front of the stage for a little sitting break halfway through their more mellow set, i had to hold the camera above my head for this. long story short: my arms were burning.
all in all it was a fantastic, albeit long (clocking in over 5 hours!) night. you can check out all of my other photos from the show here.