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by
Chris Cox
BBC Bristol website contributor |
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of Canada's biggest bands finally return after a three-year
absence to the UK, after seeing their opening night I
damn well hope we haven't got to wait another three years.
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Formed in 1988 the Barenaked Ladies have sold over 10 million
records and have recently released their latest, and in my opinion,
best album to date, Everything To Everyone.
Their current tour is a collection of greatest hits and some
of the new additions.
Let's begin at the beginning, if you don't know the Barenaked
Ladies let me say to you: "Chicken of China the Chinese Chicken,
you have a drum stick and your brain stops ticking."
Now do you know?
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band entertained the crowd for two hours. |
Of course they were massive here for the brilliant summer anthem,
One Week, but there is so much more to them than this.
The 'Ladies' stormed onto the stage at The Colston Hall with
boundless amounts of energy and enthusiasm as they rocked their
way through a two-hour set.
Starting off with Maybe Katie from the latest album, they danced
and jumped around the stage like crazy loons, and boy did the
audience love it.
Highlights of the evening were a heart-rending, hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck
version of War On Drugs sung effortlessly and hauntingly by
lead singer Steve Paige.
Then there was the uplifting and fantastic acoustic version
of One Week, a brilliant sing-a-long version of If I Had A Million
Dollars, and unbelievable live versions of Upside Down, It's
All Been Done, Another Postcard and Pinch Me.
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music being played by an astounding group". |
This
is the only band I've heard that sounds as good live as on
their albums, possible even better.
Seeing
them live is the only way to truly experience how talented
they are, and how good the music actually is.
The band got the crowd jumping, dancing and laughing with
their antics. I can't remember laughing so much at a concert
in all my life. There was even comic criticism of the At-Bristol
centre's logo, and the fact that the extra "t" isn't needed.
It was material surely strong enough for a stand-up comic!
This truly was the gig of a lifetime, if you know the band's
stuff you will adore every single singing-along second, if
you don't you'll love every single learning-the-words second.
You cannot help but have fun, see some exceptional music being
played by an astounding group.
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