Yes, it is true. Imogen Heap rocks much. Her rockingness holds no bounds.
The coolest vegan and I went to see her on Tuesday @ The Metropolis...this is the second time we've seen her. One great thing is that Imogen never does the same thing twice. While the songs may have been the same, she has a new spin on them everytime. She also has a knack for choosing the coolest opening acts.
Last time it was Zoe Keating - a cellist. Totally awesome. When she joined imogen on stage during her songs, it made for a kinda softer/more mellow feel.
This time there was Levi Weaver and Kid Beyond.
Levi is kinda like alternative/folk rock. Nice stuff...he has a good sense of humor...although kinda morbid at some times (when he was introducing his last song, he was sayin how he was driving his car, and he was joking bout how in england they call flashers something else...in anycase, he said he turned on the wrong one, and then a truck hit his car. His bro was in the passenger seat and he died. So he dedicated the song to him. But it's like, everyone's hahaha...then whoa...that sucks <_<).

Now Kid Beyond. Holy crapola. It's like his has a drum machine in his mouth. This dude is sic. I mean I don't typically listen to that kinda stuff often...but we were just amazed. On his site he has a clip of how he does the stuff, and there's also a clip on youtube of him doing a cover of Portishead's Heads - Wandering Star .
Imogen Heap came on around 9:15 pm. She had a live band this time (not only her parrot - aka her keyboard/looper). There was a drummer, bassist and her schnazzy new transparent and white piano. She was wearing a pink corset and a pink floofy skirt...funky hair as usual. Same quirky sense of humor.
She played (in no particular order):
  • Headlock
  • Goodnight and Go
  • Have you got it in you
  • Speeding Cars
  • Clear the Area
  • Daylight Robbery
  • The Walk
  • Just for now
  • Closing In
  • The moment I said it
  • Hide and Seek
  • Let go
  • and another song from her first album...but I forgot the name. All she said was she never played it in the USA or Canada before.
Hide and Seek gave me shivers!
She collaborated with Levi and Kid for some songs...truely amazing. Kid's doing all these technoish sounds just with his mouth. Levi's guitar added some cool stuff to the songs.

Also, this is probably one of the first times that I wasn't in the crowd (on floor) at a concert (at least at the metropolis. Not counting the bell center because it's huge...I don't wanna be on floor there because if you have to pee you'll lose your place/hard to get back in). It's a totally different feeling. For one, it's less crowded/sweaty. We wandered around a few times to find better spots. Secondly, my ears weren't ringing...which is always good. I think for that night it was appropriate since I was pretty tired. In anycase, both are enjoyable.

I do not have pics of this event...will possibly have video later. The cool one took a few clips during the show for her sis. I'll see if I can get them lata.

If imogen comes again, you guys should totally go. Worth it!

Also, another that happened that day - I was wounded by a bagel during the vegan cheese hunt. Not the softies from montreal bagel mind you. I went to an Eastern European store called Bucarest. It's on Decarie just south of queen mary. They have these cool little round, dry bagels on a string. If you want you can wear it as a necklace and eat them off of there. Instead I decided to break them off. Whilst in the process of breaking one...it scraped my index and middle finger. I didn't realize this till bout 5 mins later. Then I told my friend "my god man, the bagel wounded me. I'm bleeding"
"Deadly bagel!"
So if you happen to have these, you can use them as a weapon. Muahaha. You can either
1) Throw the bagel necklace at the person offending you
2) break one in half and scrape them multiple times
3) whatever else you can think of doing with bagels

The best thing to do though is to eat them. They're quite yummy.
Anyways, that's enough for now.

Adios.
Paw has also posted about this concert.
Twas a shivery day...we arrived at the Metropolis at about 6:15pm. Doors opened at 6:30. By the time we got there, there was already quite a line up. Even so, we managed to get pretty good spots...3rd/4th row back from the barrier. The only problem, as paw noted, was the two tall guys in front of us. I was able to see most times, but sometimes they'd just stand right in front. booooo.
Ted Leo + the pharamacists was the opening band. I didn't really know much about them...maybe heard one or two songs from paw's awesome music mixes. I'd say they're good dancy/party music for the summer. She kindly sent me some songs...the one I enjoyed most was "Timorous Me" which has a kinda irish guitar sound going on about halfway. Most excellent.
At about 9:10, Death Cab for Cutie took the stage. They were more rocking than I was expecting. On their cd's they sound more or less mellow, with the exception of some bouncy/happy songs. But that's more like wheee, not rawr I can jump to this.
I'm glad that they were so energetic live, because eventhough I enjoy the studio albums, I don't want just a repeat of it (like most people :D). So yay for rocking death cab. (There was one song in particular where there was like a 4 minute drum duo...Ben on a mini drum set and the drummer doing his thing, while other guitarist was on the piano. I think it was we looked like giants).
I tried to remember all the songs they played...there's a few I forgot and some that I didn't know the names of. But all in all, they played the songs I wanted them to play. Here's what I remembered (in no particular order really...except I know for sure that the sound of settling, tiny vessels, and transatlaticism were last, they were part of the encore):
  • Your heart is an empty room
  • Photobooth
  • The new year
  • Crooked teeth
  • Title and Registration
  • Expo 86
  • We looked like giants
  • Soul Meets body
  • Marching bands of manhattan
  • Summer skin
  • I will follow you into the dark
  • What Sarah Said
  • The sound of settling
  • Tiny Vessels
  • Transatlaticism
(In red are the ones I especially wanted to hear. Trans gave me slight shivers. That's always a good thing).
Below are some photos taken by Paw.

This was at the end of "Transatlaticism". Ben Gibbard came toward the crowd and was singing "So come ooooooon". Everyone sang along. He really loved that. He also brought 3 people on stage to sing the "Come on" part, and they really got into it...especially one girl with red hair.




Paw also took some videos. The sound is pretty good considering it was taken on a digital camera. The first one is "I will follow you into the dark" and the second is "Title and Registration". Just little clips of like 45 and 17 seconds respectively.
http://download.yousendit.com/3D90B95F1833160D

http://download.yousendit.com/FAD25D925FCD9744