Dear Emily Haines: please marry me.
Hi. So last night I went to the Verge Awards after scoring tickets from Hey Rosetta! (I was on the guest list. It was kind of cool.) They, The Weakerthans and Metric all played nearly a full set each and it was outstanding (and outstandingly loud, ow. Especially Metric.) Anyway, the concert was held at the Mod Club in Toronto, a relatively small venue, which turned out to be for great awesome because we were right up at the stage and had all kinds of elbow room. I got surprisingly good pictures considering my mediocre camera.
Life was pretty sweet. And Emily Haines' legs are amazing.
Hey Rosetta! were really good live; I was most pleased. You all should check them out if you haven't already. Can't not like a band with a string trio.
Dan Mangan won the Artist of the Year award. The prize is $25,000, put up by the XM satellite radio station The Verge. It's a competitor to the Polaris Prize, which is sponsored by Sirius. The Polaris has the benefit of being associated with CBC Radio 3, which is made of win and also public radio in addition to having a Sirius channel. The Polaris has a way higher profile. The Verge Awards had the benefit of being smaller, publicly voted, and not having their whole short list play the show in short sets.
Then The Weakerthans, last year's winners, played. They were pretty good, but I'm going to offend a small swath of my flist by saying they weren't my most favourite of the night. HR! is just more my style, and Metric is too cool for school, so. Everyone was good, though.
Surprisingly, Alexisonfire won the Best album prize for Old Crows/Young Cardinals which... I thought Metric would totally win an online vote no problem. Also Fantasties is outstanding, and OC/YC is not even the best of AOF's albums, IMO (when I'm in the mood, I prefer Crisis. Mostly I just prefer Dallas Green on his own, though.)
Then it was time for Metric, which was definitely the anticipated act. They were really, really awesome, my giant crush on Emily Haines notwithstanding.
My favourite photo. Who else could rock that dress and a tambourine that hard?
The end!
Also, I missed some birthdays! Happy happy to bluebelle789, j-s-cavalcante and waltzforanight! Hope it was awesometimes. ♥
Life was pretty sweet. And Emily Haines' legs are amazing.
Hey Rosetta! were really good live; I was most pleased. You all should check them out if you haven't already. Can't not like a band with a string trio.
Dan Mangan won the Artist of the Year award. The prize is $25,000, put up by the XM satellite radio station The Verge. It's a competitor to the Polaris Prize, which is sponsored by Sirius. The Polaris has the benefit of being associated with CBC Radio 3, which is made of win and also public radio in addition to having a Sirius channel. The Polaris has a way higher profile. The Verge Awards had the benefit of being smaller, publicly voted, and not having their whole short list play the show in short sets.
Then The Weakerthans, last year's winners, played. They were pretty good, but I'm going to offend a small swath of my flist by saying they weren't my most favourite of the night. HR! is just more my style, and Metric is too cool for school, so. Everyone was good, though.
Surprisingly, Alexisonfire won the Best album prize for Old Crows/Young Cardinals which... I thought Metric would totally win an online vote no problem. Also Fantasties is outstanding, and OC/YC is not even the best of AOF's albums, IMO (when I'm in the mood, I prefer Crisis. Mostly I just prefer Dallas Green on his own, though.)
Then it was time for Metric, which was definitely the anticipated act. They were really, really awesome, my giant crush on Emily Haines notwithstanding.
My favourite photo. Who else could rock that dress and a tambourine that hard?
The end!
Also, I missed some birthdays! Happy happy to bluebelle789, j-s-cavalcante and waltzforanight! Hope it was awesometimes. ♥