Concert Review: Bon Iver, July 22nd, Lees Palace
Concert attended and reviewed by Panic Manual correspondent Karen Parker
(Toronto) I discovered Bon Ivers’ (Justin Vernon) album For Emma: Forever Ago after hearing one of his songs featured on an episode of Grey’s Anatomy……don’t’ judge me. I instantly loved the “sound of a man left alone with his guitar and his memories” (Pitchfork). And when I discovered that he had isolated himself in the woods for four months to write it….I lost my mind. It was like all my fantasies had been rolled into one big one and served in woolly touque. Thoughts of a beefy bearded man in a wool coat ala Gerard Butler, capably chopping wood and foraging for his food by day while nursing a broken heart and healing through the creation of haunting music in front of a roaring fire in the woods by night was almost too much to bear….almost.
At the show my friend Ashley was heard to say:
Mmmm I’ll be your skinny love…..I’ll lose like 25 lbs for you if you let me sit on your face.
He was supposed to go on at 10:15 and as everyone knows bands never go on at their scheduled time. It’s 10:30 and I’m racing from work thinking….I’m gonna make it with time to spare and sure enough…..he went on at 10:13!!!! C’mon Bon! Rock stars make you wait! By the time I got there, got past security and made it inside I had missed most of the show….including Skinny Love! Who plays their best song early in the set anyway? I caught two songs and then two in the encore.
What I did hear was fantastic. The place was packed and more humid than a Brazilian rain forest and speaking of brazilians, clearly I wasn’t the only woman there hoping to witness her fantasy on the stage. He could have done with a bigger venue but I think even he was overwhelmed and surprised by the turnout. And while attractive in his own way, sadly, up close, he doesn’t look like Gerard Butler in a plaid shirt…..but this.
I think I can see his balls.
(Pitchfork photo credit)
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Woah dude, that is one helluva male Camel Toe.
this may be the first time that ‘balls’ have been featured on the Panic Manual.
britney is not impressed:
you’d think if you were to be reviewing the show you’d try at least to make it on time…i think i heard this reviewer behind me at the show, complaining about how she missed skinny love, and how it was his BEST song and so on…(which was phenominal, btw…too bad she missed it) and wow…was she ever annoying. how do people not at all interesting or serious about music get the job of reveiwing something way beyond her tiny little scope? one reason why toronto fans are so f#*kin lame.