M.I.A.
Very early this morning I bought Wolf Parade's Apologies to the Queen Mary (Pinder's got the lyrics to the album) and just now bought a ticket to the Arcade Fire / Wolf Parade / Bell Orchestre concert in Vancouver, so basically all Montreal all the time. Looks like I'm at least 9 months behind Pinder this time (I must be slipping in my old age and so on) who recently attended the Wolf Parade show in an unventilated Crackton art gallery: “Each band member was already on stage setting up their own equipment. No roadies quite yet. The place was hot and crowded. I was soaked. After singing It's a Curse, Dan mentioned he was about to faint during the song. It was that hot.”
(I have a ticket to the M.I.A. concert the same day, so I'll probably be giving it away at some point, either as a prize on Urban Vancouver, or like the last time I gave away a ticket to a M.I.A. concert, which was to the cutest girl in the line for purchasing.)
al3x: “As the club filled up I saw exactly the audience I figured M.I.A. would draw: exceedingly multiracial and international, just fashionable enough, and easily 60% female if not more. For a genre- and culture-spanning iconoclast, M.I.A. is hitting her target demographic dead on.”
al3x seems a little disappointed in the show, not so much because it wasn't good, but because it wasn't excellent, based on the clear obsession he has with her (an obsession he and I share). M.I.A. is supposed to be playing Vancouver in November with Gwen Stefani, which I think I'll pass on. $50 bucks to see a great club act in a stadium? I'll stick with the October 7th show at the Commodore, for which I just bought a ticket, and added a listing for in Upcoming.org.
Related: my review of when M.I.A. came to Vancouver in May of this year; Pinder's review; my aggregator of references to M.I.A. in weblogs.
"In another bid for hip-hop authenticity, the label surrounds Maya with a swarm of backup dancers who are black."
The answer is Elastica if you want to win it for me (U.S. residents need only apply).
The station does a good job of archiving shows, and not just live shows.
