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Newfoundland's "The Telegram" OLP concert review

Postby Heavy Alibi » 9/17/2008, 1:26 pm

The Telegram recently reviewed the OLP concert at Mile One Center, which can be seen here: http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=171150&sc=84

Some key, relevant quotes:

The band has been in hiding for the past few years, conceding to the fact that their approach to making records just wasn't working. In fact, they nearly broke up after their last album, 2005's "Health in Paranoid Times" took more than three years to pull together.

Now, after Raine Maida recorded and self-produced his first solo album, gaining confidence to call the shots in the studio, Our Lady Peace has been plugging away at their front man's home studio in Los Angeles, rendering results they were excited to "test out" on the St. John's crowd.

"I have to be honest with you guys," he told the excited and fidgety crowd of university students. "We wanted to ease back into playing with each other, so we wanted to do a few small warm-up shows. But this is not a warm-up show," he added sarcastically, gazing out over the 5,500 or so in the audience.


The first, "Right Stuff," was more or less the same calibre a song as the New Kids On The Block hit from the early '90s (at the odd chance the comparison generates confusion - it really shouldn't - I mean "not all that great").

The next, "White Flag," seemed much more deliberate in reverting to the band's former raw rock 'n' roll style.


Whether the band members will make a return to their glory days, the campus bars era and the few years which followed, remains to be seen.

If the new album falls in line with "White Flag," there is a glimmer of hope. If "Right Stuff" ends up being the wrong stuff, well, we can still say we heard it here first.
—Doesn't anybody ever know—

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