Hello World Tour [Hedley x Carly Rae Jepsen x Francesco Yates] // Rogers Arena

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May 20, 2016 - Reblog from Vancity Buzz.  Review by Rob Feller.

Francesco Yates

Carly Rae Jepsen

Setlists

Francesco Yates

  1. Better to Be Loved
  2. Call
  3. Mercy
  4. Sugar

Carly Rae Jepsen

  1. Run Away With Me
  2. Curiousity
  3. Emotion
  4. I Didn't Just Come Here to Dance
  5. Good Time
  6. Warm Blood
  7. Your Type
  8. All That
  9. Let's Get Lost
  10. Call Me Maybe
  11. I Really Like You

Hedley

  1. Hello
  2. Lost in Translation
  3. Don't Talk to Strangers
  4. One Life
  5. Very First Time
  6. Never Too Late/Lean On/Sorry/Uptown Funk medley [Major Lazer/Justin Bieber/Bruno Mars covers]
  7. Can't Slow Down
  8. Gunnin'
  9. For the Nights I Can't Remember
  10. Perfect
  11. Heaven In Our Headlights
  12. Lose Control
  13. Villian/On My Own
  14. Saturday
  15. Invincible
  16. Cha-Ching
  17. Old School
  18. Unchained Melody (Les Baxter cover)
  19. Trip (Encore)
  20. Kiss You Inside Out (Encore)
  21. Crazy For You (Encore)
  22. Anything (Encore)

LIGHTS Acoustic Tour 2016 // Vogue Theatre

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May 14, 2016 - An Intimate Evening with LIGHTS

At the Vogue Theatre, a sold out and packed audience welcomed LIGHTS for her last show of her latest acoustic tour, in support of the release of Midnight Machines.

LIGHTS’ main studio releases are known for their heavily-produced, upbeat, synth-pop radio-friendly songs that often have her in music collections featuring Ellie Goulding, Owl City and PVRIS.  Midnight Machines, released in April of this year contains six reconstructed and reinterpreted tracks from 2014’s Little Machines and featured two brand new tracks.  Being stripped of the keytars and synthesizers and replaced with a string trio, it’s the after-party chill when compared to Little Machines’ dance-party – a refreshing contrast and smooth transition.

The eighteen song setlist included hits from the beginning of her career ten years ago to her most recent releases.  Fans knew every word from her older hits such as “Saviour” to recent tracks including “Up We Go” and “Running with the Boys.”  Making sure her glass of wine was always filled, she loosened up with the audience telling stories of moving to Vancouver from Drake-dominated Toronto and of nudists out in New Mexico while filming her latest music video for “Meteorites.”

Despite being a lot more relaxed compared to her usual performances, fans were encouraged to “rock her tits off” before “pulling through like a badass” as a fan who had followed her for every tour date of this tour belted at her to perform her first single “Saviour.”  And LIGHTS delivered to the crowd’s roaring and applause.

LIGHTS’ live performance blew her studio recordings out of the water, fully illustrating her vocal range toward the end of the set with “Toes” and “Banner” before coming back for an encore and fan-favourite “Muscle Memory.” 

(My apologies for the lackluster photoset - soundboard shoot!)

Setlist

  1. River
  2. Up We Go
  3. February Air
  4. When The Fence Is Low
  5. Same Sea
  6. Oil & Water
  7. Don't Go Home Without Me
  8. Saviour 
  9. Face Up
  10. Follow You Down
  11. Running With the Boys
  12. Peace Sign
  13. Drive My Soul
  14. Meteorites
  15. Head Cold
  16. Toes
  17. Banner
  18. Muscle Memory (Encore)

Amon Amarth [Jomsviking NA Tour] // Commodore Ballroom

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May 16, 2016 - Repost from Aesthetic Magazine.

"Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth, who released their tenth album, Jomsviking, on March 25th, 2016 via Metal Blade, which was mixed and produced by Andy Sneap (Accept, Saxon, Opeth, Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Megadeth), performed at the Commodore Ballroom on May 16th with Swedish death metal band Entombed A.D., who released their second album, Dead Dawn, on February 26th, 2016 via Century Media, and thrash metal band Exmortus."

Exmortus

Entombed A.D.

Amon Amarth

Setlists

Exmortus

  1. Rising
  2. For the Horde
  3. Foe Hammer
  4. Death to Tyrants
  5. Moonlight Sonata (Act 3)
  6. Metal is King

Entombed A.D.

  1. Eyemaster
  2. Stranger Aeons
  3. Second to None
  4. Dead Dawn
  5. Living Dead
  6. The Winner Has Lost
  7. Wolverine Blues
  8. Revel in Flesh
  9. Left Hand Path

Amon Amarth

  1. The Pursuit of Vikings
  2. As Loke Falls
  3. First Kill
  4. The Way of Vikings
  5. At Dawn's First Light
  6. Deceiver of the Gods
  7. Cry of the Black Birds
  8. One Against All
  9. Thousand Years of Oppression
  10. Destroyer of the Universe
  11. Death in Fire
  12. Runes to My Memory
  13. One Thousand Burning Arrows
  14. Father of the Wolf
  15. War of the Gods
  16. Victorious March
  17. Raise Your Horns (Encore)
  18. Guardians of Asgaard (Encore)
  19. Twilight of the Thunder God (Encore)