Calgary Show Review/Setlist

[Mr.Domino]

Hey everybody, i JUST signed up for this board this morning, looks like a good little community you've got here (no pun intended). Anyhow i was at the show at Cowboys last night, and let me say that if you haven't seen matt live, you MUST go NOW. absolutely amazing show.

 

Wil took the stage at around 945, and played for a good 40 minutes... he really is amazing on the acoustic guitar, he and the drummer (his name escapes me) really make alot of music for two guys. Despite the fact that he was an excellent musician, the crowd was getting restless to see matt. At about 11, Matt, Rich, Pat, and Christian (sp?) hit the stage and launched into an hour and a half set of rock and roll goodness. Every song was exceptionally tight, i didn't even catch one sour note or anything. Matt took time out a couple times to chat with the crowd, once about the election today, once about amnesty international (they had a kiosk sort of thing there) and once about the sad state the world is in. Pat is a wicked drummer, pounding out the beat with power and precision. The way Rich's bass was mixed was unbelievable, it penetrated your body with amazing force. Matt and Christian were solid on the guitars, making the whole room believe what i knew to be true already. Matthew Good is among the best canadian musicians in history. Here is the setlist, i THINK this was the order, correct me if i'm wrong...

 

Put Out Your Lights

Poor Man's Grey

Fell In Love With A Bad Idea

Hello Time Bomb

Alert Status Red

Everything is Automatic

North American For Life

Weapon

Little Terror

Load Me Up

We're So Heavy

Blue Skies Over Badlands

Apparitions

 

ENCORE

Near Fantastica (un-freaking-believable)

Hopeless

Empty Road

 

I was kinda disappointed he didn't play buffalo seven as its one of my favorite new songs, but the sheer force of hello time bomb, alert status red, load me up, weapon and near fantastica more than made up for it. Last night ranks up there with the best concerts i have ever seen... thanks Matt and Co. for an amazing night.

[loveisnotenough]

I am so jealous that you got to hear blue skies over bad lands live. I went to two of the edmonton shows and got to hear every song off the new cd except that one..which is my favorite. oh well, it was still absolutley amazing!

[juanpe]

great setlist ;) i'm sure they sounded great... near fantastica sounds PERFECT live... and, by the way, I also miss in his concerts (I have only heard it in one of them) "buffalo seven", one of my favorite ones from the new album...

[Mouko]

Wow.

 

Have fun, although I don't even need to say that.

[Mr.Domino]

yeah, blue skies was pretty sweet, the whole place was just in awe of it... even in the quiet parts of the song it was quiet in the crowd, everybody was just kinda like ;) ... damn i wish going tonight lol.... dunno if my liver could take it tho...

[lis7]

It's always a shame about Matt Good concerts.

 

Highlights:

 

The moronic group of post adolescent guys that started a body slamming session up front (concentrating on not getting a boot to the head while trying to enjoy a good concert.......always fun)

 

The disenfranchised look on Matt's face, as people tried to crowd surfing to apparitions.

 

As Matt's last solo song came to an end; a song that you could tell was powerful, political and emotional.... a girl shouted "Take off your shirt".

 

Great show, it's just too bad about the fans that think that Hello Time Bomb and Load Me Up are the only songs in Matt's repertoire.

[juanpe]

yeah, it always happens the same... some fans listen to two "typical" songs and they just think they know everything about Matt's music and songs and then show off as their "strongest fans"... but oh well, that happens with all bands/singers ;)

[Mr.Domino]

i agree, that is THE most annoying thing, the people who are there to raise hell rather than enjoy the music... Matt's greatest creations are hidden deep in the album, they aren't the singles...

[S.E. Hardy]

I always find that singles are my least favorite song(s) on every album, not just MG, but everyone.

[juanpe]

sometimes you get "tired of" the singles because they are played over and over on radio stations and in the end you have heard only one song from a band, but around 20 times...

[S.E. Hardy]

I don't listen to the radio enough for that to happen to me. But I get the feeling.

[juanpe]

yeah, i dont do it either, they just bomb u all the time with the same songs and in some cases u end up "hating" some songs...

[S.E. Hardy]

I think that is one of the main reasons I've never listened to much radio.

[eadorer]

Is there still the age thing to go to one of Matt's concerts? I think that at one point in time it was 21+, but I'm not sure at all.

[Crusader]

I think they're 19+ shows... but their are all agers.

[Mr.Domino]

i think it depends on the venue, because he came to the stampede a couple times and it was all ages, but this time he was at Cowboys and was 18+.... just my $.02