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A weekend recap for those interested in what I actually do with my free time, and not just interested in my random rants du jour.

Friday: Went to Barrymore’s with Mike and Joe to see Comfortably Numb – Canada’s own Pink Floyd cover band. They played The Wall in its entirety, as well as a retrospective of other delights from Dark Side of the Moon, Division Bell, and classic cuts. I was very impressed with them. If you shut your eyes, it was like being in the room with Floyd. I belive I read they are actually endorsed by Floyd as one of the premiere cover bands out there. I figured out that they played for 3 1/2 hours. Insane.

Saturday: Roamed around town with Joe which brought us to Cam Kong eventually (I can see Holly exclaiming “Cam Kong!? Where was I?) and then we ended up at Rob’s place for dinner. We worked on my Hallowe’en costume which worked out fine. For the people whom haven’t heard what I’ll be dressing as, I may as well keep it a secret until next Saturday when we hit up Duncan’s place for the big party.

Went to Melissa’s for Mike’s birthday which was a great time full of jello shooters and good eats. Unfortunately, we had to leave to go to another birthday party. Vero’s friend Chantelle was having people over and then heading out to Patty Boland’s.

What can I say about this party we went to? Vero told me that everyone had to dress up in 80s/90s clothing. Considering all my clothes are still from the 90s, I figured ‘No Problem!’ and wore a nice AC/DC t-shirt. However, Vero had other plans. As you can tell from the picture, I was decked out in a nice Bahamas muscle shirt along with sweat bands and some leggings (not seen in the picture unfortunately). Vero is lucky for the following reasons:

  • I’m a good sport
  • I’m a little crazy
  • I had quite a bit of alcohol in my system at this point

We arrive at Chantelle’s party to find no one else has dressed up, not even the hostess. Ah well, not a big deal. I’m in no mood to go change. The highlight of the night was when they wanted to take a swing at a pinata (sp?) and Chantelle’s brother takes a stick in full swing (we’re talking with all the force in the world) and misses the pinata but clocks Chantelle right in the kisser. Beautiful. In my life, I have never seen an event such as this. She turned out alright and only had a bloody nose.

Went to Patty Boland’s with Vero and we managed to skip the lineup since we were decked out in these great costumes of ours. However, once we got inside, someone passed us the message that the rest of the gang has decided to go back home and watch a movie. We decide to stay and rock out for the rest of the night. The common ‘Happy Hallowe’en’ phrase was used when people commented on our outfits in which they responded “Hallowe’en is next week” in which I would reply “Good one buddy. Do you really think we would be dressed like this if it wasn’t Hallowe’en?”.

Quite the crazy night. I highly recommend everyone dresses up for Hallowe’en on a random day and see what people say.

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Review: Collective Soul at Ottawa U

This picture of Dean Roland goes out to the ladies who were swooning over him on Friday night.

Collective Soul concert…what can I say? I missed out when they were in town this past year because I was in Europe. Very pumped to see them again.

The event was a win-to-get-in-and-rock-your-heart-out event in which Vero scored tickets to. Awwww yeah! You’re the best babe!

Inside the Ottawa U Rec Complex, they had the place set up for free massages, free beer, free candy, free CONCERT! It was wild. Boy opened up for CSoul which was great. They have a few rocking tunes and the singer reminded me of Mick Jagger.

CSoul was amazing. Odd to see Ed Roland have a music stand with lyrics on it. The memory must be slipping on him. All in all, I got to hear all the songs I wanted to hear, along with an emphasis of stuff from Youth. Two devil hands up on this concert.

Songs Played That I Can Remember:

  • Shine (of course)
  • Better Now
  • Precious Declaration
  • Home
  • How Do You Love?
  • Counting The Days
  • Under Heaven’s Skies (currently my fave CSoul song)
  • Heavy
  • Run
  • Compliment
  • Why Pt. 2
  • Gel
  • The World I Know
  • December
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Review: Velvet Revolver at Corel Centre

Notes from scrapbook

Went with Mike.

Setlist

Sucker Train Blues
Do It for the Kids
Headspace
Superhuman
Crackerman [Stone Temple Pilots]
Illegal I Song
Fall to Pieces
Dirty Little Thing
Big Machine
It’s So Easy [Guns N’ Roses]
Sex Type Thing [Stone Temple Pilots]
Set Me Free
You Got No Right
Used to Love Her [Guns N’ Roses]
Mr. Brownstone[Guns N’ Roses]
Slither

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Review: Theory of a Deadman at Barrymore’s Music Hall

Notes from scrapbook

Eric and Mike

Opening bands

No Address and Shinedown

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Review: The Tea Party at Capital Music Hall

 

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Review: Evanescence at Corel Centre

Notes from scrapbook

Mike, Eric, Annie

Opening Bands

Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Seether

Setlist – Evanescence

Haunted
Going Under
Taking Over Me
Everybody’s Fool
Thoughtless [Korn]
My Last Breath
Farther Away
Breathe No More
My Immortal
Bring Me to Life
Tourniquet
Imaginary
Zero [The Smashing Pumpkins]
Whisper

Setlist – Three Days Grace

Burn
Just Like You
Home
Scared
Wake Up
Now or Never
I Hate Everything About You

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