Where: Sound Academy

When: August 31, 2010

I wonder what Ana Matronic eats for breakfast. I wonder if Jake Shears wears old man sweaters when he’s at home. I wonder if the keyboardist is the life of the party on the tour bus – if he’s the go-to guy for hallucinogens, awful puns, and cheap shots. I wonder if Del Marquis has a thing about Oxford Commas. I wonder these things because at this concert (packed in among so many girls and gays) there is a space between the music and the dancing, a space that would ordinarily be filled by staggering bass or the singer’s feelings slopping all over the stage. I resort to filling the space with idle, mental queries and remind myself not to wear just one earplug next time.

(It was a really good concert, though.)

I made new year’s resolutions for September 1st this year. Some of them are mundane, like “make your own lunch” and “never wear the same thing twice”, but something else I want to do is write more about music. So my Resolution, this September the First, is to write a review for every concert I see. It doesn’t need to be professional, it doesn’t need to talk about the artistry or the talent or the tuning of the scales; I want it to be Sean-from-Said-the-Gramophone-style, flashing experiential evidence. I want to practice the combination of otherwise-unrelated words for the cause of re-evoking the moment.

I saw this on the bus on my way to work yesterday and took a picture. Two things: 1) Notice that the appallingly muscular men are flexing on the beach and a skinny, be-suited be-shorted violinist is performing kneeling in the middle. Why is this the case rather than the muscly guys playing? Why bring in bonus skinny nerds? and 2) WHY IS THE KWS NOT ADVERTISING RIGHT NEXT TO THIS?

It would be so funny.

This is Corey. Corey is a superhero. Corey is leaving the KWS for bigger and better things with the National Arts Centre Orchestra.

Sorry about the miserable quality of this – I had to scan it on my work scanner and I don’t actually know how it works. But look! A comic!