Four bands; two venues; one night; I was ready for some live rock.
It had been far too long. I think the last time I caught a show in town was The Trews at The Playhouse…that was November.
Yesterday, Hey Rosetta! dropped by the Fox-Hole for a chat with The Uncle (Uncle Rob). They were in town to promote their newest album, Seeds, which hit stores on Tuesday. They brought in the strings and set a up a mini-orchestra in the room to do a live acoustic version of their latest song, Welcome.
Did it ever sound good in here!
Anyway, last night I caught their show at the Market, which isn’t the greatest sounding room, but it’s a good medium sized venue – something Fredericton is kinda lacking – and truthfully, it sounded fine to me! Along for the tour was another band from St. John’s, The Gramercy Riffs who opened up the night. As the crowd grew, they got more into it and the band’s change-off of female and male vocalists was a nice touch.
The crowd, at this point ,was beginning to get much closer as the Market got packed in anticipation of Hey Rosetta! I hadn’t seen them since they played the Blues tent at Harvest a couple of years back – which wasn’t their best performance – so I was eager to see them, and hear some new stuff live.
They opened with this:
It was a nice energetic start to what was a much more energetic show than my last experience; for that, I was very grateful. And I wasn’t the only one, as the crowd sang along loudly, clapped, chanted and cheered during their favourite songs – which seemed to be all of them – and it made for a really fun night.
They closed with this:
After uproarious chants of “One More Song” the band came back out for a four song encore, during which, Tim invited Mara from the Gramercy Riffs on stage to perform a fantastic rendition of Time After Time…I so wish I’d gotten a video of that.
The show was over by 11pm; then it was time to take the Wife home (she doesn’t do the late night shows…she’s like Cinderella) and then I headed back downtown to meet up with my buddy Granter to catch Alert The Medic & The Stanfields at Nicky Zee’s.
I’d seen the Stanfields before, and I love the guys! They’re a great live band, and I ranked their album among my Top 5 of last year. However, I’d never had the chance to catch Alert The Medic. I’ve been hearing great things, but it seems every time they’re in town, I’m unable to go. I rectified that last night…sort of . I was late getting there, and the boys were already well into their set, but what I caught, caught my full attention – see below:
I’d encourage you to go see these guys next time you have the chance…this video doesn’t really even do them justice. They’re awesome.
Once the Stanfields hit the stage, it was time for some hard hitting east coast pirate rock – as I like to call it – and the boys didn’t disappoint.
It’s obvious these guys love to perform, and they’re naturals. The song above is on their album, Vanguard of The young & Reckless, but they also debuted a new song, and I got it on camera:
Overall it was an energetic night of rock, and a welcome return to catching some shows for me. Who’s next…
Oh, right…Matt Mays (solo) @ The Capital March 11…Oh hell yes!
-Crash-
P.S. also, Mark Roberts from your Morning Fix on The Fox will be playing at Dolan’s from 2-5 tomorrow (Feb 19th); go see him. It’s his guitar players birthday…celebrations will be in order.
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