Last nite’s Beautiful South concert was one of the most pleasant surprises I have experienced. Toronto’s music crowd is known to be rather stiff and emotionless, however, yesterday’s probably sold out show was the complete opposite. Never before have I seen a crowd as excited as the one yesterday. For Realz. The crowd was literally singing every single song with the band. Perhaps it is the band, the Beautiful South have been around for what amounts to about two decades now and there are probably a lot of ex-pats in the crowd who grew listenin to this band. The enthusiam level of this show just pushed it over the top, its hard to explain really, everyone was so into it. Really cool. I arrived kinda late and have been kicking myself for it the past couple hours, and seeing the setlist doesn’t help.

Setlist:
rose of my cologne
old red eyes
pretenders to the throne
song for whoever
prettiest eyes/especially for you
never lost a chicken to a fox
dumb
a little time
rotterdam
one last lovesong
when romance is dead
manchesta
36D
perfect 10
don’t marry her
you keep it all in
father and I

FIRST ENCORE
love is
good as gold

SECOND ENCORE
Woman in the Wall

the band sounded really crisp and seemed to really appreciate the crowd. i think i was the youngest person there.

show rating: 4.5 / 5