Post by adamclark52 on Jan 29, 2018 1:34:20 GMT -5
Sleigh Bells
Support: Casey MQ
Date: Sunday January 28th, 2018
Venue: the Mod Club in Toronto, Ontario
T-shirt work: goathead pentagram
The opener Casey MQ was announced two hours before the show. Musically he was pretty cool synth heavy stuff but the vocals weren’t my thing at all. Thankfully WWEs “Royal Rumble” was happening when he was playing so that gave me something else to pay attention to during his set.
I remember liking a few Sleigh Bells songs a few years ago. I haven’t heard them in a while so I don’t know what possessed me to go tonight. Probably booze. So that said I wasn’t entirely hyped to go to this show but I had a ticket and it gave me a good reason not allow myself to do something I’ll get in to at the end of this review. I tried to get in to this show but it just wasn’t doing anything for me. They do their thing and they do it well. It’s something I should like. Loud? Check. Abrasive? Check. Fast? Mostly, check. But I just couldn’t get into it. The songs I knew (Tell ‘Em, Comeback Kid and Infinity Guitars) were all cool but everything else sounded the same. Not bad per se, just the same and I was really bored after forty-five minutes. Bored enough that I bailed during the second song of the encore. Then I remembered when I got home that I really like their song Rill Rill too, but it was too late to turn back at that point. Figures they probably had started playing it before I crossed the street outside.
Sleigh Bells
1. (possibly Blue Trash Burning Mattress)
2. Riot Rhythm
3. (possibly Favorite Transgressions)
4. Tell ’Em
5. Comeback Kid
6. I Can Only Stare
7. It’s Just Us Now
8. Rainmaker
9. Bitter Rivals
10. Infinity Guitars
11. Demons
12. (possibly Rule Number One)
13. (very short, may have been the second half of the previous song)
14. Crown on the Ground
[encore]
15. And Saints
16. (may have been A/B Machine)
17. Rill Rill
Sleigh Bells
Casey MQ
On a side note: this show represented another (and possibly the final) nail in the coffin of my time as a fan of WWE wrestling. I’ve always watched the Royal Rumble pay per view in January. Even in years when I didn’t bother to watch Wrestlemania I watched the Royal Rumble. I bought this ticket three months ago and a few weeks later it dawned on me to check and see when the Royal Rumble was this year. It was tonight but I didn’t even care. I cared enough to follow it on some message boards but I’m proud of myself for not giving in to temptation and lasting a whole year without watching their crap.
But that’s another story for another day.
