Before I forget, I must post that yet again, Sean and I went to another Echo concert. This time at the Phoenix in Toronto. I’m not certain, but I think this is the first venue I ever saw the band about 12 years ago with Greg. I must say it hasn’t changed much. But that’s OK because the site is a great one to have a concert of this size.
As Sean can attest to, the band was on. I would sum up the performance as ‘aggressive’. Rapid rhythms and hard guitarwork. They played some great classics that don’t come up live very often: The Back of Love & Rust.
The highlight for me was when they cranked out Never Stop, The Back of Love, the Killing Moon and the Cutter before ending the set. I haven’t seen that much energy from them.
The encore was a great extended version of Lips Like Sugar. But I must admit my disappointment that they didn’t play Ocean Rain. Up until then, I hadn’t seen them live without that song being played. Although Greg had told me that they don’t often play it I couldn’t believe that since I’ve been so fortunate.
Anyway, a great concert and a great night out even though we didn’t get home until 2am.
Hey Sean, if they ever come back we’ll need to finally man up and by one of those awful T-shirts….maybe the one with Einstein.