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Thanks to my lovely, thoughtful friend Jill for this delicious treat.
Oh Feist, just when I thought you couldn’t possibly be any more adorable…
Can’t wait to see her in concert August 5th at Deer Lake Park.
Ok. Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!?!?
I’ve been waiting to see Joey McIntyre sing ‘Please Don’t Go Girl’ for twenty years and, wouldn’t you know it, the day he’s in Vancouver, I’ll be away… GETTING MARRIED.
Oh, the irony.
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UPDATE: NKOTB is coming to Vancouver Nov 21, 2008
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The other day I was seriously annoyed that there is not, nor do there appear to be any plans to open, a Sephora store in Canada’s THIRD largest city, Vancouver.
Today I have a new reason to be annoyed.
Apparently, Canada’s THIRD largest city, Vancouver, is also not important enough to make the list of locations for the forthcoming New Kids on the Block concert tour.
Man, it’s days like this that I wish I still lived in Montreal or Toronto (yes, I’ve done both). Granted, there don’t seem to be any west coast locations at all on the tour, but still.
To make me even more miserable, it’s raining today in Vancouver.
Crumminess all around!
On another note, can someone tell me what is the point of subscribing to receive news updates from NKOTB.com when they don’t send you any news, let alone the most important news of all–tour date announcements?! “Exclusive first access”, my @$$. Toronto’s already sold out!… and I got the news from someone’s Facebook update, of all things. Lame.
I don’t quite remember how I first heard about Cat Power. I think it might have been while searching for artists like Feist on Last.fm. Ever since I moved away from Montreal and my pal with the golden ear, Marty P, I’ve had to resort to other ways to find new music. In fact, he’s the one who turned me onto Feist four years ago – way before Apple ever heard of her.
While some might say I don’t have amazing taste in music – my excitement over the reunion of NKOTB as a case in point – I prefer to think I’m simply selective. When I find an artist I like, it’s not usually just a passing fancy; more like a life-long love affair. So when I discovered Cat Power’s (a.k.a. Chan Marshall) album The Greatest, full of sometimes sultry, usually poetic, occasionally upbeat and totally boho-but-not-too-boho songs, I settled in for the long haul.
Just after Christmas, I heard she was coming to Vancouver so I snapped up two tickets right away and stuck them on my fridge. I like doing that – it gives me something to look forward to (and also helps to remind me… how much would it suck to buy concert tickets and then forget to go?).
It felt like forever, but April 10th finally came. At last! I’d be able to take this relationship beyond my mp3 player.
And that’s how I set myself up for an extraordinarily large disappointment.
I almost didn’t end up seeing her at all, which I almost wish were the case so I could maintain the illusion a little longer.
The concert was supposed to start at 8 pm and ok fine, they never start on time; I was expecting her to come on at maybe 8:30 then. But 8:30 came and went… and so did 9:00… at 9:30 Jesse and I looked at each other in dismay and decided if she didn’t come on by 10 we’d up and leave.And then she FINALLY came on the stage… at 9:51 pm! Who does that?!? I mean, what a way to disrespect your fans. Maybe there was some catastrophe backstage but I doubt it since at no point was there any announcement at made. There wasn’t even a warm-up band to fill up this time. And sure, the majority of the audience was made up of 18 year old fashion plates for Urban Outfitters but that’s still no excuse to be rude.
Sheesh, I thought, this better be good.
Sigh.
You know, if I would have been able to actually hear her lovely voice and quirky, sensitive lyrics over the twang of the guitars and thump of the overly loud drums, I might have been able to overlook her totally dorky skinny-black-pant-and-ginormous-white-shoes combo and possibly have been able to ignore her supremely irritating side-shuffle-dance-twitch thing. But I wasn’t and so I didn’t. Each song was a big fat muffled mess.
I don’t know if it was the venue (Vogue) or what, but whole Cat Power concert experience was terrible. We left after 30 minutes.
It was heart-breaking, really. That relationship had so much potential.
I think I’ll have to let myself heal for awhile before I can even listen to her CD again. Which I will, because it is great. She’s just not the greatest in concert.
Just in case you thought I was kidding about New Kids on the Block reuniting, here they are from their stint on the Today Show today – Joey, Jordan, Donnie, Danny and Jon – in all their post-adolescent, mid-life-crisis glory.
Still no word on whether the New Kids are coming to Vancouver… but I’m holding my breath.
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