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#40: Matthew Good (26-oct-07) - Massey Hall
the day before, raine maida was busking on toronto streets for 12 hrs to raise money to build a school in the congo with war child. then i had tickets to the matt good show the next day. it's like i'm back in university going to see our lady peace and matthew good band, but both have gone solo now. (although i don't know if OLP have broken up or if raine is just doing his own thing for a bit).
i really like matt good's newest CD, even though his other solo efforts have been ok, but not to the MGB calibre, in my opinion. it seemed like he had taken a long time between records, and in the meantime, he blogged about his battle with being bipolar.
so we ended up being late to the show b/c when i pulled out my tickets, it turned out that i brought one ticket and the receipt instead of the other ticket. i usually rip off the receipt (which is printed on a ticket and it's all connected when they mail the tickets), and pin the tickets to my bulletin board. but i guess i ripped it in the wrong place at the start and didn't notice until we were about to walk in. good thing i live downtown and the venue was downtown, so we just took a cab back to my place, and i found the other ticket in my file of receipts, and went back to massey hall. we missed 3-5 songs (depending on which usher you ask).
he had a glass of wine with him on stage, which was constantly refilled, and he was definitely slurring his words when he talked. the performance was great, but you could tell he was drunk when he talked, which was pretty funny. he was filming the performance (coincidently it was being filmed by duncan from our lady peace!), but he kept saying that he messed up so many times they probably won't use any of the footage.
i was hoping he would sing some old MGB songs, and he didn't disappoint. he sang apparitions and suburbia, my all time favourite MGB song from beautiful midnight. and the whole show was acoustic, which was really amazing.
between every song, he would talk. and lots too. at one point, there was someone with a laser pointer, so matt proceeded to make fun of the person. he's like "laser pointers are so 1997. i don't get the mentality of 'oh i'm going to bring a laser pointer to the matt good show. i'm going to point it at the guitar and no one's going to know it's me.'" and then another time he talked about how he wanted to do a record about the homoerotic tendencies of the lord of the rings.
he played for an extra long time too. he played for a little over 2 hrs in total, which is pretty amazing these days. he seemed to be alot more mellow than the usual ranting matt good, i think it was the booze.
so overall a good show. now if i went to the david usher show a few weeks ago, that would have rounded out my favourite-university-era-bands'-lead-singers-gone-solo tour.
i have no upcoming shows lined up either. maybe a little bit of a concert drought for awhile.
the day before, raine maida was busking on toronto streets for 12 hrs to raise money to build a school in the congo with war child. then i had tickets to the matt good show the next day. it's like i'm back in university going to see our lady peace and matthew good band, but both have gone solo now. (although i don't know if OLP have broken up or if raine is just doing his own thing for a bit).
i really like matt good's newest CD, even though his other solo efforts have been ok, but not to the MGB calibre, in my opinion. it seemed like he had taken a long time between records, and in the meantime, he blogged about his battle with being bipolar.
so we ended up being late to the show b/c when i pulled out my tickets, it turned out that i brought one ticket and the receipt instead of the other ticket. i usually rip off the receipt (which is printed on a ticket and it's all connected when they mail the tickets), and pin the tickets to my bulletin board. but i guess i ripped it in the wrong place at the start and didn't notice until we were about to walk in. good thing i live downtown and the venue was downtown, so we just took a cab back to my place, and i found the other ticket in my file of receipts, and went back to massey hall. we missed 3-5 songs (depending on which usher you ask).
he had a glass of wine with him on stage, which was constantly refilled, and he was definitely slurring his words when he talked. the performance was great, but you could tell he was drunk when he talked, which was pretty funny. he was filming the performance (coincidently it was being filmed by duncan from our lady peace!), but he kept saying that he messed up so many times they probably won't use any of the footage.
i was hoping he would sing some old MGB songs, and he didn't disappoint. he sang apparitions and suburbia, my all time favourite MGB song from beautiful midnight. and the whole show was acoustic, which was really amazing.
between every song, he would talk. and lots too. at one point, there was someone with a laser pointer, so matt proceeded to make fun of the person. he's like "laser pointers are so 1997. i don't get the mentality of 'oh i'm going to bring a laser pointer to the matt good show. i'm going to point it at the guitar and no one's going to know it's me.'" and then another time he talked about how he wanted to do a record about the homoerotic tendencies of the lord of the rings.
he played for an extra long time too. he played for a little over 2 hrs in total, which is pretty amazing these days. he seemed to be alot more mellow than the usual ranting matt good, i think it was the booze.
so overall a good show. now if i went to the david usher show a few weeks ago, that would have rounded out my favourite-university-era-bands'-lead-singers-gone-solo tour.
i have no upcoming shows lined up either. maybe a little bit of a concert drought for awhile.
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