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Prince, November 30, 2011, Halifax NS

Prince

Halifax Metro Centre

November 30, 2011

Controversy / Get Down Tonight (KC & Sunshine Band) / Housequake / Let’s Go Crazy / Delirious - Let’s Go Crazy / 1999 / A Million Days / Let’s Go (Cars) / Take Me With U / Raspberry Beret / Cream / Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough (M. Jackson) - Cool (The Time) / Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan) / Purple Rain / When Doves Cry - Sign O’ The Times - The Most Beautiful Girl in the World - Pop Life - Darling Nikki - Forever in My Life / Hot Thing / Kiss / Nothing Compares 2U / Get Wild (NPG) / Disco Heat (Sylvester) / Baby I’m a Star

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INXS, July 5, 2011 - Halifax NS, The Palace

Drum Opera / Suicide Blonde / Devil Inside / Listen Like Thieves / Kiss the Dirt / Pretty Vegas / Bitter Tears / Mystify / Don’t Change (Original Sin Version) / New Sensation (Original Sin Version) / The Stairs / Beautiful Girl / Mediate / Need You Tonight / Not Enough Time / Disappear / Taste It / Original Sin / What You Need / Never Tear Us Apart // By My Side (Original Sin Version) / Don’t Change

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Insanity.

2011:

10-05 Rihanna (O2 Arena, London UK)

07-31 U2 / Arcade Fire / Carney (Magnetic Hill, Moncton NB)

07-11 U2 / Interpol (Rogers Centre, Toronto ON)

07-09 U2 / Interpol (Montreal Hippodrome, Montreal PQ)

07-08 U2 / Interpol (Montreal Hippodrome, Montreal PQ)

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07-05 INXS (Cunard Centre, Halifax NS)

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04-28 Stefan Grondin (DJ) / Kylie Minogue (Bell Centre, Montreal, PQ)

04-09 Imaginary Cities / Pixies (Metro Centre, Halifax NS)

2010:

12-12 Arcade Fire / Devendra Banhart & The Grogs (S.E.C.C., Glasgow UK)

12-11 Arcade Fire / Devendra Banhart & The Grogs (Manchester Central, Manchester UK)

12-09 Arcade Fire / Devendra Banhart & The Grogs (Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff UK)

12-08 Arcade Fire / Devendra Banhart & The Grogs (LG Arena, Birmingham UK)

10-20 The New Pornographers / My Brightest Diamond / Boxer the Horse (Halifax Forum, Halifax NS)

09-12 U2 / One Republic (Letzigrund, Zurich Switzerland)

09-11 U2 / One Republic (Letzigrund, Zurich Switzerland)

09-06 U2 / Snow Patrol (Ataturk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul Turkey)

09-03 U2 / Snow Patrol / Aviv Geffen (Olympic Stadium, Athens Greece)

08-01 Devo / Weezer / Metric / Sonic Youth / Snoop Dogg / Morning Benders / We are Wolves / The Antlers / Black Keys / Ariane Moffatt / Ariel (Day Two, Osheaga Festival, Montreal PQ)

07-31 Arcade Fire / The National / Fran Healy (Travis) / Keane / Stars / K’Naan / Jimmy Cliff / Little Scream / Dan Black / Final Flash / Sarah Harmer / Owen Pallett / Ingrid Michaelson / Rich Aucoin / The Walkmen / Daniel Isiah Schacter / Skip the Use (Day One, Osheaga Festival, Montreal PQ)

07-24 Black Eyed Peas / Weezer / Classified (Halifax Commons, Halifax NS)

07-24 The Cliks (Garrison Grounds, Halifax NS)

07-03 Cyndi Lauper / Dragonette / Ruby Jean and the Thoughtfull Bees / The Cliks (Queens Park, Toronto ON)

06-12 Arcade Fire (Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON)

04-14 Metric / The Arkells (Cunard Centre, Halifax NS)

04-03 Wolf Parade / Contrived (Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)

03-19 B-52s (Casino NS, Halifax NS, Canada)

01-22 Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees / GrahamZilla (Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)

2009:

12-12 Hey Rosetta! / Jon McKiel / La Strada (The Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)

10-28 U2 / Black Eyed Peas (BC Place, Vancouver BC)

10-23 U2 / Black Eyed Peas (UNLV Stadium, Las Vegas NV)

10-03 U2 / Muse (Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh NC)

09-17 U2 / Snow Patrol (Rogers Centre, Toronto Ontario)

09-16 U2 / Snow Patrol (Rogers Centre, Toronto Ontario)

09-13 U2 / Snow Patrol (Soldier Field, Chicago IL)

09-12 U2 / Snow Patrol (Soldier Field, Chicago IL)

08-17 Modest Mouse / Tomcat Combat (Halifax Forum, Halifax NS)

08-15 U2 / Glasvegas / The Hours (Wembley Stadium, London UK)

08-14 U2 / Elbow / The Hours (Wembley Stadium, London UK)

07-27 U2 / Bell X1 / The Script (Croke Park, Dublin Ireland)

07-25 U2 / Kaiser Chiefs / Republic of Loose (Croke Park, Dublin Ireland)

07-24 U2 / Glasvegas / Damien Dempsey (Croke Park, Dublin Ireland)

07-16 Belle Orchestre / Dreamsploitation (St. Matthews Church, Halifax NS)

07-11 Paul McCartney / Joel Plaskett / Wintersleep / Sierra Noble (Halifax Commons, Halifax NS)

07-10 Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees / Jenocide / Room Doom (The Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)

07-04 The Offspring / Metric / Handsome Furs / Dinosaur Jr / Plants and Animals / Hey Rosetta! / Arkells / In Flight Safety (Citadel Hill, Halifax NS)

07-02 U2 / Snow Patrol (Camp Nou, Barcelona Spain)

06-30 U2 / Snow Patrol (Camp Nou, Barcelona Spain)

05-01 Hey Rosetta! (with Jenn Grant) / Rich Aucoin (Paragon Theatre, Halifax NS)

04-03 Death Cab for Cutie / The Midway State (Dalhousie University, Halifax NS)

03-26 Polly Jean Harvey and John Parish / Howe Gelb (Irving Plaza, New York NY)

03-25 Morrissey / The Courteneers (Webster Hall, New York NY)

03-24 Bloc Party / Longwave (Terminal 5, New York NY)

03-23 Sneaky Sound System (Mercury Lounge, New York NY)

03-22 Roesy / Jenna Nicholls (Scratchers, New York NY)

03-14 Bloc Party / Holy Fuck (The Kool Haus, Toronto ON)

01-16 Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees / Woodhands / Tomcat Combat (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)

2008:

12-20 Plants and Animals / Broadcast Radio (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)

11-10 Suzie McNeil (Casino Nova Scotia, Halifax NS)

11-07 Feist / Hayden (Metro Center, Halifax NS)

11-02 Stars / Hey Rosetta! (The Grawood, Halifax NS)

11-01 Stars / Hey Rosetta! (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)

10-19 Lennie Kravitz / Sloan (Metro Center, Halifax NS)

10-18 Daniel Lanois (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)

09-15 Bloc Party / Apostle of Hustle (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)

09-14 Bloc Party / Apostle of Hustle (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)

09-13 Bloc Party (Fredericton NB)

08-08 Radiohead / Girl Talk / CSS / The New Pornographers / Duffy / Micheal Franti & Spearhead / Forro in the Dark / The Duke Spirit (Liberty State Park, Jersey City NJ)

08-07 Bloc Party / Longwave (Webster Hall, New York NY)

08-06 Bloc Party / Does it Offend You Yeah / Amazing Baby (Webster Hall, New York NY)

07-20 Stars / Wintersleep / The Black Keys / Hey Rosetta / I See Rowboats (Citadel Hill, Halifax NS)

07-19 Tokyo Police Club / The Weakerthans / City and Colour / Rebekah Higgs / In-Flight Safety (Citadel Hill, Halifax NS)

06-30 Peter Hook (of New Order) - DJ Set (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)

06-27 Dragonette / Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees (The Marquee Club, Halifax NS)

06-19 REM / Modest Mouse / The National (Madison Square Garden, New York NY)

05-21 Bob Dylan (Metro Center, Halifax NS)

05-15 British Sea Power / The Rosebuds / Jeffrey Lewis (La Salla Rosa, Montreal PQ)

05-14 The Cure / 65daysofstatic (Bell Centre, Montreal PQ)

05-12 Leonard Cohen (Rebecca Cohn, Halifax NS)

04-25 Air Supply (Nova Scotia Casino, Halifax NS)

04-21 Alicia Keys (Rockefeller Center Plaza, New York, NY)

03-10 Hawksley Workman (Rebecca Cohn, Halifax NS)

2007:

11-30 Feist / Old Man Leudecke (Cunard Centre, Halifax NS)

10-27 Arcade Fire / Wild Nights / Clinic (MEN Arena, Manchester, UK)

10-18 Young Galazy / Apostle of Hustle / Most Serene Republic / Grand Theft Bus (Marquee Club, Halifax, NS)

10-03 Bloc Party / Tokyo Police Club / Smoosh (Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)

09-29 Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew (with Jill Barber) (Marquee Club, Halifax NS)

09-14 Metric / Hey Rosetta! (Cunard Centre, Halifax NS)

07-10 Dolores O’Riordan / Jessie Baylin (Irving Plaza, New York NY)

05-09 Arcade Fire / The National (Radio City Music Hall, New York NY)

05-08 Arcade Fire / The National (United Palace, New York NY)

05-07 Arcade Fire / The National (United Palace, New York NY)

04-12 Jann Arden / ?? (Metro Center, Halifax NS)

2006:

12-09 U2 / Pearl Jam / Rocco and the Devils / Billie Joe from Green Day (Aloha Stadium, Honolulu HI)

09-15 Metric / The Stance (The Forum, Halifax NS)

07-06 Madonna (Fleet Center, Boston MA)

05-09 INXS / Stabilo / Dave Gunning (Metro Center, Halifax NS)

05-08 INXS / Stabilo (Moncton Coliseum, Moncton NB)

04-01 Broken Social Scene / Bedouin Soundclash (The Forum, Halifax NS)

01-14 Honeymoon Suite / Kim Mitchell / Chucky Danger Band / The Persuaders (Tour Tech Warehouse, Dartmouth NS)

2005:

11-28 U2 / Arcade Fire (Molson Center, Montreal PQ)

11-26 U2 / Arcade Fire (Molson Center, Montreal PQ)

11-25 U2 / Arcade Fire (Corel Center, Ottawa ON)

09-23 Elevation (Pogue Fado, Halifax NS)

09-17 U2 / Dashboard Confessional (Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON)

09-16 U2 / Dashboard Confessional (Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON)

09-14 U2 / Dashboard Confessional (Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON)

09-12 U2 / Dashboard Confessional (Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON)

09-03 Rolling Stones / Maroon 5 / Tragically Hip / Our Lady Peace (Magnetic Hill, Moncton NB)

06-27 U2 / The Bravery / Ash (Croke Park, Dublin IR)

06-25 U2 / Paddy Casey / The Thrills (Croke Park, Dublin IR)

06-24 U2 / Snow Patrol / Radiators from Outer Space (Croke Park, Dublin IR)

06-22 Coldplay / Interpol (Marlay Park, Dublin IR)

06-01 Sarah McLachlan / The Perishers (Metro Centre, Halifax NS)

01-22 Broken Social Scene / Stars / Wintersleep (The Marquee, Halifax NS)

2004:

07-24 Madonna (Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON)

01-29 Elevation (Pogue Fado, Halifax NS)

2003:

06-14 Exit (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland OH)

06-14 Elevation (Hard Rock Cafe, Cleveland OH)

06-13 Exit (Hard Rock Cafe, Cleveland OH)

02-08 Elevation (Hard Rock Cafe, Cleveland OH)

2001:

10-13 U2 / Garbage (Copps Coliseum, Hamilton ON)

10-12 U2 / Garbage (Molson Centre, Montreal PQ)

06-09 U2 / PJ Harvey (Fleet Center, Boston MA)

06-08 U2 / PJ Harvey (Fleet Center, Boston MA)

06-06 U2 / PJ Harvey (Fleet Center, Boston MA)

06-05 U2 / PJ Harvey (Fleet Center, Boston MA)

06-03 U2 / PJ Harvey (Civic Center, Hartford CT)

06-02 U2 / PJ Harvey (Pepsi Arena, Albany NY)

05-28 U2 / PJ Harvey (Molson Centre, Montreal PQ)

05-27 U2 / PJ Harvey (Molson Centre, Montreal PQ)

05-25 U2 / PJ Harvey (Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON)

05-24 U2 / PJ Harvey (Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON)

05-13 U2 / PJ Harvey (United Centre, Chicago IL)

05-12 U2 / PJ Harvey (United Centre, Chicago IL)

03-26 U2 / The Corrs (Car Rental Center, Fort Lauderdale FL)

03-25 Howie B (Miami FL)

03-24 U2 / The Corrs (Car Rental Center, Fort Lauderdale FL)

2000:

08-16 Smashing Pumpkins / Foo Fighters / Our Lady Peace / A Perfect Circle / The Catherine Wheeel / Eve 6 / Treble Charger / Finger Eleven (Citadel Hill, Halifax NS)

1998:

05-xx Barra McNeils (T-Room - TUNS, Halifax NS)

1997:

08-08 Sinead O’Connor / Great Big Sea (Edmonton Folk Fest, Edmonton AB)

06-15 U2 / Fun Lovin’ Criminals / Howie B (Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton AB)

06-14 U2 / Fun Lovin’ Criminals / Howie B (Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton AB)

03-xx Metallica / Corrosion of Conformity (Coliseum, Edmonton AB)

1996:

10-31 Spirit of the West (McInnis Room - Dalhousie, Halifax NS)

09-xx Great Big Sea (Dalhousie Outdoor Festival, Halifax NS)

03-xx Spirit of the West (Birdland, Halifax NS)

While at TUNS (1995-1998):

Spirit of the West (perhaps one other show?)

Great Big Sea (Metro Center, at Dal another time)

I Mother Earth (at Dal)

Kilt (More times than I can count)

Highland Heights

While at Mount A (1991-1995):

The Fat Lady Sings (1991)

Northern Pikes (1992)

Spirit of the West (1991 & ?)

54-40 (1994)

Tom Cochrane / Amanda Marshall (1991)

Bare Naked Ladies (1991)

Sloan

Eric’s Trip

Blue Rodeo (Multiple Times)

Skydiggers

Ashley MacIssac

Leslie Spit Treeo

Uisce Beathe

Great Big Sea

Furnace Face

The Monoxides

Grapes of Wrath

High School:

100 Flowers (1989)

Haywire (1988)

Candi (1989)

Rod Stewart (?)

Glass Tiger (LOL think that’s who it was)

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Day Two: Least Favorite Song

The Tragically Hip.  The great Canadian band that were everywhere through high school and university.  They seem loved everywhere I go.  My friends all go on about Gord Downies voice, which to me sounds like…

NAILS ON A CHALKBOARD!!!

I can’t stand his voice.  It physically makes me want to itch my skin off.  I can’t explain it, but each time I hear it I have an immediate need to leave the room, turn off the radio, switch the channel…

And this song?  Worst of the batch.

I did give him a chance when I went to see the Stones in Moncton.  I tried to have an open mind and not tune it all out right away.  But he came across as completely stoned and out of it, and really left me wishing I didn’t have to stay.  I finally went for a walk to the merchandise stands as far away from the concert stage and speakers as I could get…

So least favorite song?  The Tragically Hip.  “New Orleans is Sinking”.

PS. These may not appear daily.  Life is quite busy.

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Day One:  Favorite Song.

I know a lot of people switch this up.  The favorite song is a moving target.  Not mine.  For 24 years this month I’ve had one favorite song.  “Running to Stand Still” by U2.  It was released in March 1987 on The Joshua Tree.  And from the first time I heard it I fell in love.

I can remember endless walks through the woods in Cape Breton Highlands Park, walking towards the Atlantic Ocean.  Sitting there in a culvert.  Watching the waves crash over and over again.  Staring across the oceans.  Wishing I was anywhere but where I was.  And through it all, that one song on repeat.  A song I made my own cry for escape.

You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice

Those lines kept me sane.  They reminded me to bide my time.  That things would get better.

I’ve answered “Running to Stand Still” for my favorite song forever.  But it was in 2005 when I was at the third night of seeing U2 in Croke Park in Dublin that it really hit home.  There I was, standing in a crowd of 80,000 people.  I heard the song start, and I was instantly transported back to that awkward teenager all alone on a beach.  Instant solitude in a football field packed with people.

At that moment I realized I’d accomplished everything I used to dream about.  And right at that minute I was fulfilling one of the biggest dreams that I had. 

Powerful moment.  Really knocked me out.  Tears were streaming down my face, as my friend Rory rubbed my back, and Jules gave me a big hug.  That song still can bring a tear to my face, but now rather than a song of escape, it’s a reminder now of what I left behind.

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caroline: ‘catholic’, the first new solo album by Gavin Friday in 16 years, will be released in Ireland on Good Friday, April 22, 2011.

caroline:

‘catholic’, the first new solo album by Gavin Friday in 16 years, will be released in Ireland on Good Friday, April 22, 2011.

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McDonalds launched a campaign locally for their new Buttermilk Biscuits.  This photo shows what happens when you don’t consider what happens when letters can be removed.  Sorry McD’s.  Doesn’t sound appetizing at all.  Seen in Dartmouth NS on Main Street. Zoom

McDonalds launched a campaign locally for their new Buttermilk Biscuits.  This photo shows what happens when you don’t consider what happens when letters can be removed.  Sorry McD’s.  Doesn’t sound appetizing at all.  Seen in Dartmouth NS on Main Street.

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Summersault - August 16, 2000

Summersault Festival - Citadel Hill, Halifax NS

Finger 11 / Catherine Wheel / Eve 6 / Foo Fighters / Smashing Pumpkins / Our Lady Peace

Foo Fighters

Breakout / Learn to Fly / My Hero / Up in Arms /  I’ll Stick Around /  Big Me / Stacked Actors / Have a Cigar / Sweet Home Alabama / Lynyrd Skynyrd (Jam) / Bridge of Sighs (Jam) / This is a Call / Next Year / Monkey Wrench / Everlong

Smashing Pumpkins

Heavy Metal Machine / The Everlasting Gaze / The Sacred and Profane / Mayonaise / I Am One / Don’t You Want Me - Du Hast / I of the Mourning / To Shiela / This Time / Rock On / Bullet with Butterfly Wings / Stand Inside Your Love / Blue Skies Bring Tears / Cherub Rock / 1979

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1997-06-15 U2 / Fun Lovin’ Criminals

Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton Alberta

Mofo / I Will Follow, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Gone, Pride, I Still Haven’t Found, Last Night On Earth, Until The End Of The World, If God Will Send His Angels, Slow Dancing, Staring At The Sun, Sweet Caroline, Miami, Bullet the Blue Sky, Please, Where the Streets Have No Name // Discotheque, If You Wear That Velvet Dress, With or Without You, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, One-Hallelujah

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1997-06-14 U2 / Fun Lovin’ Criminals

Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton Alberta

Mofo / I Will Follow / Even Better Than The Real Thing / Gone / Pride / I Still Haven’t Found-Stand By Me / Last Night On Earth / Until The End Of The World / If God Will Send His Angels / Staring At The Sun / Daydream Believer / Miami / Bullet the Blue Sky / Please / Where the Streets Have No Name // Discotheque / If You Wear That Velvet Dress / With or Without You / Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me / Mysterious Ways / One-Unchained Melody