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captainsblogWell, from all accounts- in the paper and on the Facepage- most people were happy with the entire deal last night. [Edit: okay, the band's own board has a few postings referencing the same issues about start time and wretched excesses that I did]. Yes, it's the end of the summer as we know it, and I feel fine, if not as fine as a lot of those people did (but likely far better than they did at 9 this morning when I got up). Still, I hope someone can suggest, either to them or to me, how to make this a better deal when they come back next year.
It's almost certain that they will, too. They announced early in the set that they'd sold oot the place at the door, no small feat when the ticket price doubled and there were plenty of other distractions this weekend, including Wingfest within smelling distance and untold family events for the holiday. Sean's twittering following the event said, simply, "Our future is secure."
So far, nobody in any of these places has confirmed a complete setlist. Here's what I can offer from my own notes and others' recollections from after we left:
Donkey Riding
Captain Kidd (adding in some pretty cool minor keys toward the end)
Love Me Tonight
When I'm Up
Lukey
Something Beautiful
Sean channeling Julie Andrews with a brief rendition of "I Feel Pretty"
Patty Murphy
Gideon
The falling through the ice song that isn't Charley Horse
When I Am King
Captain Kidd
General Taylor
Scolding Wife
Beat the Drum
Huh? (I have down "Rocky Top" which makes no sense whatsoever but it's some old reel that musta sounded like it at that late hour)
Sea of No Cares (the acoustic version as on Hard and the Easy, announced as being co-written by Buffalo's own Chris Trapper, "that suave and sexy man")
Bob Hallett then got his obligatory solo for Helmethead, as Hockey Night in Canada highlights showed on the screens behind the band.
Here, we started getting rather fed up with the surroundings, and I missed one or two, but Consequence Free and Mari-Mac were the two we heard on the way back to the car. Others reported the show ending with, at least:
Straight to Hell
Excursion Around the Bay
Ferryland Sealer
Ordinary Day
Disputed reports concern End of the World, River Driver and Old Browns Daughter.
There was plenty of Alan and Sean's usual banter, much of it noting their local connections to us, but I was really too far back and surrounded by too many distractions to memorialize much of it beyond the few things above. Except: Alan did note, and encouraged support of, the firefighters throughout the grounds who were collecting for the fallen BFD members who died in the line of duty a couple of weeks ago. That rocked.
Again, none of my previous grievance falls on the band, except maybe the decision to go on at 9 with an announced open of 5:30. It was a beautiful night, the crowd in front looked a lot more genuinely stoked (as opposed to getting it from a plastic cup), and the Lesson Learned is, unlike the Thursday shows, you have to get there early and find Your People, because the festival equivalent of Cheap Seats is not going to work for us.
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My gym was closed when I finally got there today, so I'm back home after a quick grocery run. The Mets are actually starting to win ballgames; but, as one of my other favourite Canadian bands would say, that's just
It's almost certain that they will, too. They announced early in the set that they'd sold oot the place at the door, no small feat when the ticket price doubled and there were plenty of other distractions this weekend, including Wingfest within smelling distance and untold family events for the holiday. Sean's twittering following the event said, simply, "Our future is secure."
So far, nobody in any of these places has confirmed a complete setlist. Here's what I can offer from my own notes and others' recollections from after we left:
Donkey Riding
Captain Kidd (adding in some pretty cool minor keys toward the end)
Love Me Tonight
When I'm Up
Lukey
Something Beautiful
Sean channeling Julie Andrews with a brief rendition of "I Feel Pretty"
Patty Murphy
Gideon
The falling through the ice song that isn't Charley Horse
When I Am King
Captain Kidd
General Taylor
Scolding Wife
Beat the Drum
Huh? (I have down "Rocky Top" which makes no sense whatsoever but it's some old reel that musta sounded like it at that late hour)
Sea of No Cares (the acoustic version as on Hard and the Easy, announced as being co-written by Buffalo's own Chris Trapper, "that suave and sexy man")
Bob Hallett then got his obligatory solo for Helmethead, as Hockey Night in Canada highlights showed on the screens behind the band.
Here, we started getting rather fed up with the surroundings, and I missed one or two, but Consequence Free and Mari-Mac were the two we heard on the way back to the car. Others reported the show ending with, at least:
Straight to Hell
Excursion Around the Bay
Ferryland Sealer
Ordinary Day
Disputed reports concern End of the World, River Driver and Old Browns Daughter.
There was plenty of Alan and Sean's usual banter, much of it noting their local connections to us, but I was really too far back and surrounded by too many distractions to memorialize much of it beyond the few things above. Except: Alan did note, and encouraged support of, the firefighters throughout the grounds who were collecting for the fallen BFD members who died in the line of duty a couple of weeks ago. That rocked.
Again, none of my previous grievance falls on the band, except maybe the decision to go on at 9 with an announced open of 5:30. It was a beautiful night, the crowd in front looked a lot more genuinely stoked (as opposed to getting it from a plastic cup), and the Lesson Learned is, unlike the Thursday shows, you have to get there early and find Your People, because the festival equivalent of Cheap Seats is not going to work for us.
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My gym was closed when I finally got there today, so I'm back home after a quick grocery run. The Mets are actually starting to win ballgames; but, as one of my other favourite Canadian bands would say, that's just
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Date: 2009-09-06 08:48 pm (UTC)Did they release names? I knew a number of BFD when I worked for R/M.
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