Alright. Blue Rodeo are a fine, fine band. They played a lot of new stuff, but mixed it up with the classics and finished the show and encore with "Hasn't Hit Me Yet" and "Falling Down Blue", respectively. Good tunes. Nathan Wiley opened, and was also really good, but I really prefer the small venue atmosphere. I say this because the audience, for the most part, sucked. I understand that not a lot of people were there to see Nathan, heck, not a lot of people even knew who he was or that he was opening, but still. Common sense and courtesy dictate that you shut up and listen at least half-heartedly to this guy. So, a note to the people sitting in front of me at the concert. Section 20, Row 13, you know who you are. You got up many, many times during the concert, only once waiting for a break between songs to do so. You were quite likely drunk when you got there and continued to drink the entire time...at one time coming back with 3 beer each in hand. Nice. You talked, you did not know any of the songs, during the fast ones you were dancing like assholes (nobody else was, or it might have been ok), and during the quiet ballads you were talking loudly and laughing...again...like assholes. This is for the whole concert too folks, not just for Nathan. So the music was great, the light show was cool, but the audience sucked hardcore.
On a brighter note, sort of...
I got Nathan Wiley's autograph on my cd that I bought shortly after having seen him open for Sarah Harmer. The "sort of" part of the cool part here is that I was the first person to even approach him, and I wasn't like, stalker fast about it. Once I went up to him and started chatting then other poeple started lining up and stuff. Maybe they were just shy. He's very cute. So now I have an autographed set list and cd. He just has to get real real famous, and I'm all set. hehe. And Grant even liked one of the songs, which is cool.
I think that's it. I'm tired now, and the in-laws are coming up in the morning so my plan of sleeping in til noon will have to wait unitl non-Superbowl Sunday.