Tegan and Sarah, Orpheum Theater, Downtown Los Angeles (10/29/2007)
30 October 2007I heard about their tour just before their new album The Con had come out, and was depressed to hear they were playing that week in Malibu, but amazingly this Canadian band came back a few months later to play in downtown Los Angeles. I had actually only heard of them a month or two earlier than The Con came out when there was an article on them in Rolling Stone, and had been playing them allot, but my girlfriend Kelly said she couldn’t stand them and couldn’t stand their singing. Well I bought 2 tickets anyway, and had heard how great these girls were live, and that it would probably change Kelly’s mind, and the rumors were right. This was an amazing show.
The show was at the beautiful Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles, not the best neighborhood, but a gorgeous theater and completely redone. In fact I had been in here before when I was working on a commericial that had shot there when the theater had been closed down for a number of years. I really want to go back, I wonder what else is playing there.
The show started around 8 with the amazing New York opening band NORTHERN STATE. This band has 3 female rappers in their early thirties, total New York girls, a few a little chubby, and one quite tall, and then a blond on the guitar and a guy playing the drums. You can tell they are huge fans of the Beastie Boys (and in fact 2 of the songs on their new album are produced by them), and they put on a totally amazing live show. Both Kelly and I picked up their new album, CAN I KEEP THIS PEN?. This is a fun album, though they are better live! And I guess they have had a song on GRAY’S ANATOMY as have TEGAN AND SARAH. This was an awesome set, and we get to meet them because they were running their booth after they played. Nice!
Then came who we came for Tegan and Sarah, and right off the bat they were amazing, and really changed Kelly’s mind. This was because Tegan (the twin with the big tattoo on her right forearm) started off singing and her voice is amazing, even better than on their records. In fact at time she had the vocal power of Sinéad O’Conner. She has an amazing voice, and I realized I actually like her songs better, as they are popier. Sarah is funnier though, even if her voice isn’t quite as good, or at least took longer to warm up (and she sang her better songs near the end of the show).
They were both hysterical in their stories, but Sarah is as I said funnier. She had us cracking up, while Tegan seems to have a drier humor. They would chat, and have the whole audience in stitches.
I still want to know why some idiot girl threw her gum at Sarah, because “she loves them.” that is just fucking weird.
This was an AWESOME SHOW! And I hope to see them again on their next tour!!!
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October 31st, 2007 at 1:31 pm
sounds awesome, wish I were there xxxxxxxxooooooooihnk