Detroit 3/29 - St. Andrews Hall

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Why hello. : )

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I remember Arlie from Edgefest!

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It was like St. Andrews in '01 all over again. Standing out in the cold (Only 90 minutes this time instead of 8+ hours then), meeting new people, Raine climbing the speakers up to then hanging off the balcony and of course feeding the crowd with pure adrenaline.


Daniel White was the opener from England.
He was a one man band of sorts recording snips of a rattle snare, a guitar riff, then some humming/singing into the mic then continually looping it back and crescendoing upon itself into a very energetic finish.

Speaking of energetic I think I found the cure of this nations energy crisis. Just put Jared Paul on an exercise bike, hook it to a generator and give him a water bottle filled with Red Bull. He was a veritable firecracker on stage. Only problem is he comes at you so fast that you may pick up what he's saying but your brain doesn't get the chance to digest it and analyze it. What really sucks was that he had to deal with so much crowd noise from the back half of the place that didn't seem to care. At the end of the 3rd poem he told the crowd "You guys up front make more noise than those at the bar want to hear" Unfortunately with his last poem the noise from the back was getting very distracting for us up front to understand what he was saying. At the end he thanked "The first 15 rows"

Even worse than some loudmouth chick that occurred at one of the last shows was some loudmouth drunk jerk at this show. Guy was ranting and raving that he sucked and didn't pay $20 to see his shit yadda yadda yadda. After Jared chimed in on 'Less I Know' he came down from the stage down to us in the front row to watch the rest of Raine's performance. The drunk jackass ended up right next to him and was telling how much he sucked. Jared just looked straight at him and said 'Thank you. Thank you very much' I maneuvered my way over to the other side of Jared by this time and shoved the guy back before he started anymore shit. Luckily his sober buddy took him away to the rear before anything serious broke out.


As for Raine he and the rest of the band came out with incredible energy.
He set the tone of the show with 'Careful what you wish for' Chantal on the piano really stuck out to me on the album, she did the same thing ten-fold here. Very hard, commanding chords that have a haunting ring to them.

The performance of OHIO was fantastic. The feedback and from the audience gave him the energy to go climb the speaker towers up to the balcony where the house lights came up and the whole crowd was singing the Doooo Do Do Dooo Do Dooooo on Sex Love Honey.

Raine did his cover of 'Try Honesty' which really caught me off guard because of how slowed down he did it. He just introduced it as a punk song and didn't mention Billy Talent. Not hearing the song for a bit I didn't recognize what it was until the first chorus. It's a good song but it just didn't work for me slowed down like that. Kinda came off as those slowed down, ambient elevator music, easy listening parody's of 'Welcome to the Jungle' or 'Crazy Train'

I love the Pixies 'Where is my mind' song. The cover is good and really shows off Chantals vocal range, but it kinda came off as an opera song. It wasn't as slowed down as 'Try Honesty' but still slower than it needs to be. I think they could speed it up a bit and still keep Chantals whole range in there.

And of course it wouldn't be a show without Raine flubbing a line. At the beginning of 'One Second Chance' Raine flubbed up but just laughed it off saying "I'm loosing my mind" (In reference to the previous song) but really let it loose with the rest of the song and really amped up the crowd.

Just like a strong OLP performance the music got me and everyone else around me full of energy and adrenaline. The crowd noise was huge I was jumping up and down screaming at the top of my lungs for the encore. Just as I did in previous years past there at St Andrews and their performance a few years back at the State Theater.

Now that I've finally calmed down and back at home I log on to read to following off Raines MySpace blog ...
"Safe to say... this is just the beginning."


Oh Shiii, Can't wait to see what Raine has up his sleeve for the future.

Raine and OLP was to the breaking point and almost called it quits multiple times just the other year.
Now it seems as if Raines solo work as revitalized him and really changed his outlook on the future.

I've got a feelin, the best is yet to come!

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DEE-TROIT!!

You were standing directly behind me for most of the concert. Weird. I'm the unusually 6' tall girl who was in the front row in the purple top, short brown hair. You probably moved from behind me because you couldn't see around me. We definitely made eye contact while waiting in line. Haha, strange.

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