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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
^^^Lucky you!
I'm eight days away from seeing this show.
A recap of your show would be appreciated!
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For a short outdoor set at the busiest intersection in TO for a bullshit bureaucratic faux-artsy festival, I thought they did a good job. They began the set with a drone piece where Thor started by just railing on the gong, and eventually one by one the rest of the band joined him on stage. Then they segued into a new song called Frankie M which had a climax that reminded me a lot of the last track on Spiderland.
Gira only interacted with the audience twice, once to scream "TEAR DOWN THESE FUCKING BUILDINGS" and the other time to thank the audience at the end of the show. He also started twerking (I shit you not) and dancing eerily similar to how Thom Yorke danced in the Lotus Flower video during the groovy section of The Apostate. And yes, he was wearing a cowboy hat.
I really wanna catch them next time they come to Toronto on their own. Of course you can't ear rape your audience when you're playing an open festival in a city, but still a nice set.
Really surreal to see all these 12 year olds and out of place hipsters at the show, or just the fact that fucking Swans of all bands are relatively big now. The Finance Minister of Ontario was at the show and a bunch of Budweiser girls were rockin out by the beer tent... watching Swans! Think about that and think about the band in the 1980s.
Next up, Mac DeMarco.