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grimly observed the
strict no moshing
signs and the phe-
nomenal security
and wondered if this
was going to be any
fun at all. Fortunately
—, for me and the other
| 4,000 or so people
»| there, it was.

| Stereophonics has
been a musical force
in the UK since 1996,
but are only begin-
ning to take hold
here. Playing an
" impressive way-too-
short 45-minute set,
Stereophonics
wowed the audience
with a phenomenal sound

Phota By Revit Milos

Rain Maida, Lead Singer, Our Lady
Peace

As throngs of Raine-
obsessed, tank-top wearing

Photo By Kevin Milos

teenyboppers swarmed into minute and sweep you off
the Multiplex Saturday night, | your feet the next. Able
to play way harder than
their current radio sin-
gle “Pick a Part That’s
New,’ singer/guitarist
Kelly Jones, drummer
Stuart Cable and
bassist Richard Jones
treated the audience to
songs from the current
album “Performance
and Cocktails” as well
as their 1997 release
“Word Gets Around”.
™ Stereophonics’ musical
strong point, however,
is most definitely the
ballad. Kelly Jones’s

Stereophonics lead singer
Kelly Jones

that could kick your ass one .

incredible voice could charm
an AC/DC fan into flicking his
Bic. é
Our Lady Peace is
one of the biggest, if not the
biggest, name in Canadian
rock at the moment. So to go
to a general admission show
and to have to just stand
there - that’s asking a lot. But
the band had good reason for
this precaution: a girl who
broke her back at an OLP
show last year was devastat-
ing both to the girl and the
band, and made it obvious
that moshing is not as
innocuous as we would like to
believe. Whether the incident
was general knowledge or
not, something struck a chord
with the audience, because
apart from a song or two at
the end, everyone was sur-
prisingly well behaved. Raine
Maida (vocals), Mike Turner
(guitar), Duncan Coutts
(bass), and Jeremy Taggart
(drums) rumbled through a
diverse set of picks from all
three of their albums with
inspired, if somewhat
restrained, vigour. “Naveed,”
“Clumsy,” “One Man Army”
and others got the crowd into
it despite not being allowed to
jump on one another, and
Raine even braved stepping
into the stands to encourage
a few fans to help him sing a
gorgeous stripped down ver-
sion of “Hope.” Behind the
band a video screen played
creepy-as-hell videos relating
to each song, adding to the
atmosphere and probably
making the pot-smokers in
the centre crowd a little anx-
ious.

Unfortunately there is
always one or two idiots in the
crowd, and whoever it was
who decided to throw a full
water bottle at Raine was
sorely punished. Raine went
into quite a tirade: calling the
culprit a coward and an ass-

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hole and giving
everybody per-
mission to “kick
the living shit
out of him.” This
may seem a
fairly unusual
and __ justified
event; however
the OLP front-
man has a his-
tory of going
into at least one
rant a show.
Those of you at
their concert
two years back
may remember |
Raine — kicking
out a_ security
guard for being
too rough with a

Raine — the crow with old hits
and new.

fan, and at a show opening
for Van Halen a couple years
ago he actually told the crowd
they were too stupid to under-
stand the meaning of the
song “Starseed” after an
attempted explanation
received blank looks.
Eccentricities aside,
Our Lady Peace is still an
amazing rock and roll band
and they played a great show
Saturday night. As they came
up for the encore Raine
exclaimed “This is making it
way too easy to keep coming
back to Prince George!” Let’s
just hope he keeps his word.

Yc dT Mile phy

Phot ::,

Raine belting out on of
may hits.