It's no secret that I spend a lot of time at the Boat (158 Augusta, Toronto). It is an incredibly warm venue run by some very lovely people. Including the brains, balls and heart of the operation Keith Hamilton. www.myspace.com/keithhamilton.
I see a lot of bands passing through including some of my most memorable shows of 2007.
However tonight was an exception to the memorable show genre.
I was hardly paying attention to the first band playing except to occasionally adjust my earplugs to try to drown out the lead singer's awfully tone deaf singing.
The second band, Bury the Bully (wwww.myspace.com/burythebully) , seemed that they would be a band that has some semblance of possibly being good. This was gaged, by the fact that their merchandise was well organized. However, when your manager gets up to leave before the end of your set, it becomes pretty obvious that your band is clearly lacking on certain things . I found their sound to be incredibly outdated, by this i mean that they pretty much sounded like clones of the already homogeneous radio friendly garbage I tune out of daily, and have managed to ignore for the last four or five years.
The sad thing is that this four piece from Whitby seem like nice, earnest guys. Almost too clean cut to be playing the kind of music that they do. Instead, what I experienced was pretty average, cookie cutter music.Every falsetto note hit was fairly predictable. I really only clapped at the end of each song out of instinct not enjoyment. The poor lead singer felt the need to talk to an almost empty room as if they were playing a huge festival like the Warped Tour. Which coincidentally is the only medium I really see them having any sort of success in. This is purely because they are forgettable enough to likely be invited back, this is becaue they would be able to blend well enough into the large lineups so as not to detract from the equally droll headliners.
Perhaps I am being too critical, only time will tell.
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