concert count

#7: city and colour (02-Mar-06) - Harbourfront Centre

i don't even know if i can write an entry about this concert because it was so good, there's no way my re-telling of the show will do it justice. but i'll try anyways.

dallas green is amazing. amazingly talented, amazingly humble, amazingly funny. amazing. if you haven't heard his solo stuff yet, i strongly encourage you to buy the CD. he goes by city and colour. dallas = city, green = colour. genius. it's just him and his acoustic guitar, and for the show, he had his younger cousin on the keyboards for a few songs. dallas is also the guitarist in the band alexisonfire.

seeing him perform the songs live was a whole new experience. i'm not usually someone who reads into lyrics very much, but having him tell a story about each song made me feel like i had a stronger connection with the music. my favourite song is 'comin' home' and he talked about how it was originally just a song about being on the road, but it just turned into a depressing song because of some stuff happening in his life, which if you listen to the song, it's about a girl breaking up with him.

since he's on an indie label, he didn't have roadies tuning his guitar for him, he had to do it himself, and after each song. so that gave him more time to talk to the crowd. he told us how whenever he tunes his guitar, he's looking down at it, and when he lifts his head, his glasses always hit the mike. and it did always happen, even though the first time was on purpose.

after someone yelled "i love you" he said "thank you. but you shouldn't. because you don't know me, and you should only love people you know." oh so smart.

the venue was great. a small theatre, that probably held 500 people all together. it was very small and intimate, and i was sitting in 8th row. but i think any seat would have been great, except the people sitting in the balcony behind the stage, i guess.

the dynamics between him and his cousin were hilarious. they joked around with each other all night, and it was great. there were also some other bands in the audience. one of them a british band named johnny truant, who alexisonfire toured with in europe, and were sitting beside me at the show! too bad i didn't know their music and couldn't say anything to them.

musicians usually thank the audience for coming to their shows, but sometimes it can be insincere. this was definitely not the case for dallas. he was incredibly humble and thanked the audience multiple times and at the end of the show, he thanked us again and said that music is the only thing he has ever thought he's been good at, so it meant alot to him that we were there to support him.

he's playing 4 shows in toronto, and i wish i was going to every single one of them.

his jeans were unnaturally tight for a guy. so tight that i could see the outline of his pockets and boxer briefs. i know someone who dresses like him, not on purpose to be like dallas though. the tight jeans, the old t-shirt, and the plaid shirt over top of it. his name starts with an 'm' and ends in 'arco.'

i love dallas green. i listen to music when i go to sleep, and right now, it's city and colour. i wish he could sing me to sleep every night, in person.

this city and colour show was so incredible, i don't think any of the other shows i'm going to this month will be even close to it. and this blog entry definitely does not do it justice.