what a fun night!
new rider, we probably walked past each other a dozen times last night
corb lund was awesome. funny guy, great voice, solid guitar chops, although his guitar/dobro/pedal steel/banjo guy sort of stole the show at points. his whole band is wonderfully tight and dynamic, they have obviously been at this a while.
the crowd was very in to the whole evening, to the point of singing/speaking along with a couple of his more popular songs...
i'm not sure what i thought of elliot brood. they were sort of hobbled by extremely sssssssssssssssssssssssizzzzzzzzzly high end heavy sssssound...it was bad enough that we were ready to flee to the back of the room to escape it. this marred what were pretty interesting and catchy songs. they do sound way different live from what i'd heard of them on the CBC...
if you get a chance, check corb out. totally spot-on songwriting, and a pretty cool mix of covers.