So I was able to get complimentary tickets to see Death Cab For Cutie (aka Jesus to Emo Kids) last nite at Massey Hall. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, possibly a lot of cute (albeit probably too young)short haired DIY emo girls and a bunch of guys with messy hair, dark framed glasses and a sweater on top of a dress shirt. Despite knowing about 10 Death Cab songs, I was quite excited about seeing this Seattle foursome play, since I was hoping they would sneak in a Postal Service song somewhere or something (never happened).

The promotion group provided us with okay tickets, they was on the second balcony, but was post obstructed. Luckily, I was able to stand a few feet over and my view was decent. It is certainly better then the 3rd floor balconies, which is about six hundred feet up. The show itself was pretty good, they played all the songs I liked and came out as Devo before their encore, and proceeded to play 4 Devo songs, which killed the crowd because really, even I only know one Devo song. I am pretty sure at this exact moment, my friend Josh is rattling Devo singles off the top of his head like popcorn out of a err..popcorn machine.

Some things I notice whilst at this concert:

• Razrs are the new candles, during the song where the dude goes ‘bangkok to calgary’, everyone was holding their bloody phones in the air. Why bangkok (does dcfc like tranny nancy boys?) why calgary? maybe they like hicks. I dunno. when he sang the calgary part, people cheered. naturally, being from edmonton i didn’t cheer. i couldn’t boo-ed either, or someone might have cried
• there was about five people doing co-ordinated hand movements during several songs. like five of them had their hands in the air and moved from left to right in unison. i bet they were fobs, because they do that at hong kong concerts
• its always funny to see some jock type guy yell ‘YAAAAHHHHHHHH’ out in a deep voice at a band like death cab, normally you think they would be going to see iron maiden or something
• wearing a waldo costume on halloween at a mass gathering is a great idea.
• i dont know if death cab realized most people paid 58 bucks to go see them, so when they first walked out and said ‘we invite you to stand up, this is a rock show’ i was a bit peeved, because i wanted to sit down, and i wasn’t really sure how much of a rock show death cab really is. and if it was a rock show, the security guards shouldn’t of hunted down every person who tried to make it to the front. that would not happen at a rock show.
• i really enjoy this whole 11 pm curfew thingy that massey has. at the risk of sounding like an oldie, having a known finish time really quicken gap between opening act and main event. 15 minutes! that was it between ted leo and death cab. if every concert was like this, i might see a few more opening acts.
• saw ted leo on the way to the bathroom during the death cab concert, man that guy needs to eat a burger or eight.

Show rating: 3.5 stars out of 5.