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Day II at NXNE gets off to a rough start. I wake up remembering first that I???m in Canada.Second, that I???ve been meeting and writing about rock stars, and third, that my laptop wasstolen. Then I have a troubling thought: Who are you Tim Horton????
My Attorney is gone. I find out later he???s talking to a jolly bus driver (who disregards theroad in front of him the minute he finds out Dimitri is from Boston).
???HOW ???BOOT THEM BRUINS??!??? hesays. ???USED TO KNOW THIS GUY NAMED
BOSTON BILL!!???he spits enthusiastically, babbling about the Bostonians he loves.?? Apparently he met agroup of Bruins fans in Mexico who made it ???snow??? on a daily basis.
We get a $40 ticket on the way to downtown Toronto for making an illegal left turn.
Here is where I start an arbitrary pointsystem, Canada vs. U.S.:
-40 for the ticket. +40 for the officerseeing I was filming his every word andlaughing instead of arresting me. We???llgive the jolly bus driver a +24 for goodmeasure, but a -3 for every Tim Hortons (amysteriously overly-popular Canadian fastfood chain found on more street cornersthan Starbucks in Manhattan). So thatbrings us to a solid tie considering we sawabout eight Tim Hortons on the way backto the center of the NXNE festivities
yesterday. Don???t you hate trying to pluralize brand names that end in s?
Oh, and Canada still has to make up for the -1,001 points they lost yesterday for stealing my
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Oh, and Canada still has to make up for the -1,001 points they lost yesterday for stealing mylaptop.
After ordering falafel wraps in a creepily silent Shwarma place, we head over to the HyattRegency to see who we???ll find. The hip NXNE PR girls in the Press Office give us maps andproceed to lead us astray w ith wrong directions to the Music Gallery on John Street.
After walking aboot three miles in the wrong direction, realizing we???re going the wrong wayand missing the tram while getting change for it (as well as the band we wanted to see ateight) I furiously hail a cab.
$15 cabs in Canada: -15.
..191 John Street doesn???t seem to exist to our cabbie, so we jump out and take matters intoour own hands. 190 is to the right, a big leafy park ahead, and???. holy hipster!??? a sea ofrising smoke and flannel surround a great stone church around the corner.
I have to steady myself before I pass out from excitement.
I walk through the vestibule and into a huge, echoing space w ith a high arched ceiling and arainbow-colored stained glass mosaic at the forefront of the venue; the altar is the stage.People fill the white pews in this quaint little church straight of out of Medieval times, while folktunes waft into the night from w ithin.
We make it just in time for Forest City Lovers, a local Toronto quartet whose front singer andsongwriter Kat Burns opens w ith a piano solo. Her voice is smooth, slow, melodic???it meltsyou like popsicles. Exactly as beautiful as Regina Spektor???s, but w ithout the accent and 30times more subtle.
I am in a church. She???s playing a babygrand and Jesus, there???s no better wayto describe it: as the waning light filtersthrough the stained glass and illuminatesher face, she reminds me of an angel. Andmy photographer has fallen in love w ith yetanother Canadian hipster.
Her entrancing lyrics make me want to ???come away now??? w ith her.
She takes the stage w ith her violinist,keyboardist, and bassist (the only guy in the band) to continue w ith a set of delicatelyfingerpicked lullabies.
???I???d just like to tell everyone that I???m playing through a Marshall stack,???
Burns says, smiling. ???That???s the firsttime this has happened.???
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I w ish Forest City Lovers would appear when I???m sitting on the bus having one of thosedeep meditation sessions about existence or something sad, sit down next to me, and startplaying the soundtrack of my life.
Abruptly as this transition between paragraphs, we walk from the hidden church to YongeDundas Square and are blasted w ith a PUNK ROCK SHOW. +1000 points to Canada!
We wrongly assumed Dundas Square is another big tree-y park. More like Times Square. Acrowd of thousands and thousands of punks mosh in front of an enormous stage where TheDescendents are playing a free show for all of downtown Toronto.
Words are unnecessary. This clip should speak for itself.
+5 to Canada for the random punk dude Ithrew the rest of my apple to.
We book it to a smaller punk scene in arather sketchy part of Toronto. TheGarrison is tastefully grimy, a dark whole-in-the-wall punk rock venue full of bootsand leather where they play Gang of Fourbetween sets. Here???s a familiar analogyfor you: If indie Rivoli from last night is TheModel, The Garrison is the Silhouette. I???lltake a shot of whiskey and a beer anyday???this is a fuckin??? punk rock show.+568 for Canada for the next two bands.
I can???t get over Uncle Bad Touch, a punk trio from Montreal w ith a girl bassist and thehappiest bare-foot drummer I???ve ever seen. It???s refreshing to hear distorted punk chordsplayed w ith such a level of intensity and precision. So far, these guys are my favorite bandfrom NXNE.
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Many of their songs are simple, characterized by bluesy minor chords and enlightening upwardchord progressions. By the way they shred the solos in ???Baby, Baby, Baby??? and ???I Wantto Love You,??? you can tell whoever wrote these riffs exudes musical talent. They close w ithour favorite song, a grungy punk anthem called ???Strange City, Sing to Me.???
Uncle Bad Touch I Wanna Love You by kracher
More stories w ith these guys to come, as the drummer and I plan to jump off tomorrow???sbooze cruise into Lake Ontario to reenact the final scene from Titanic.
And get pumped: Uncle Bad Touch has just recorded 14 new songs that w ill be released soon,according to Sean the drummer, who grew up right here in Toronto. Look for new tracks ondigboston.com.
The cig-smoking punks outside convince us to stay for the next band (it doesn???t take much,as Uncle Bad Touch was so good). They tell me there was a huge fight at the Descendentsshow after we left; not surprising, though???I???m sure it was all in good fun.
The next band is another one to look up: Ty Segall. Blew me away, or at least sucked me intothe mosh pit for the whole set.
Funnest. Shit. Ever.There is a big-hair-band, beer-drinking bassist and a drummer who looks like a vampire-Cher.
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???Here???s a new song. It???s aboutdrugs,??? the lead singer says at onepoint. At another point, the mic stand fallsinto the audience. 20-minutes in:
???Here???sanother new oneabout your head
exploding, and yourbrain all over the
wall.???
Then BOOM. Punkrock show!
We end the night waltzing into Rivoli, which was again full to capacity w ith about 30 hipsters
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We end the night waltzing into Rivoli, which was again full to capacity w ith about 30 hipstersstill waiting to get in at 1 a.m. I feel kind of grimy coming from a punk show covered in sweatw ith my hair all over the place and walking past the line into the stylish venue ???. so Iassume the mentality of Ty Segall and think to myself ???what the fuck ever.???
I was looking forward to seeing Bruce Peninsula, a progressive folk band from Toronto thathas been praised by local magazines such as Everything Toronto and the Torontoist.Unfortunately, I think the punks won by a landslide. Someone should tell these indie bandsgently that 10-person ensembles are sometimes superfluous (we can???t all be Rusted Root).Maybe the punks should tell them. They all have 3-4 people on stage and are killing it w ith asmuch energy as Propagandhi in their prime.
Stay tuned for Day III of NXNE; Corbin from the Torontoist is getting us bikes, there???sgoing to be some outdoor day shows as well as a huge electro rager with Richard Aucoin,who biked across the country (Canada country) dressed like the Grinch who stoleChristmas.
That???s a +999. You???re slowlyredeeming yourself, Canada.
Check out Day I coverage here.
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