Too much Klaxons for one site? NEVER! Here’s a quickie review, lovely new gallery of delicious photos and a setlist rundown for all you gig nerds. This was The Klaxons, live at Venue (yes, that’s what the venue’s called), in Vancouver, on October 4.
Full photo gallery from Caribou’s foray to Vancouver’s Wet Coast on October 3rd at Vogue Theatre. Lovely pics, if I do say so myself. Because I took them. Oh and the music? Wooshy wonderful.
HOLY CRAP! The Gods have heard my prayers. SeBADoh are coming back out on tour to support the reissues of Bakesale and Harmacy in 2011. Here’s a few details.
Giant hands! Confetti! Spaceballs! Grey Suit! Hugs! Twitter! The most venerable Flaming Lips and Ariel Pink were in town, and the BackstageRider well, went backstage. Here’s what we all got up to via the implementation of words, pictures, video and interpretive dance.
The Backstage Rider somehow (okay we got there really early) ended up in the front row for Arcade Fire on September 28 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. Check out the pics, read a few words and figure out how you’re going to be the one down in front the next time they come through…
Victoria’s Hot Hot Heat made it back to the West Coast on Sept 24 to play the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. For the numbers-inclined of you, they played 6 songs from their 1st (proper) album, 3 from their second, one from their third and a whopping 7 from their latest. So now you know.
Ignore the horrible rockhands picture of the Backstage Rider and Dan Akyroyd from Sept 23, assume the photographer was drunk, and click through to read about a vodka whose POWER IS CAPTURED BY A GLASS SKULL.
Night Work. Ian McKellen. His love for Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age. Rentboy.com. Jake Shears dishes the disco dirt in this exclusive interview and photo sesh for BackstageRider on the eve of the Scissor Sisters’ final show of its tour.
Stunning live shots of the Scissor Sisters’ end of tour gig at Malkin Bowl in Vancouver by lensman extraordinaire Kris Krüg. Plus a few breathless and still-wet words from yours truly. They are a study in awesome.
