Review

 All day I agonized, nearly collapsing when I saw the clip
 of the show in Calgary the night before. I couldn't wait to 
see that intensity up close. We got our seats a couple of 
songs into Everclears set. They did an awesome sloppy,
but totally put together show. Ending with Santa Monica,
and Local God. The whole colliseum was a huge cloud 
of anticipation, waiting for the wonderful moment when 
the band walked on stage. After Everclear wished us 
goodnight, a TwILiGhT ZoNe episode was played on
the screen--the dummy one. A nice touch. I didn't watch 
the whole thing.. me and my friend were away during this time,
bragging to friends about our seats, and buying a whole lotta 
stuff... posters.. t-shirts...stickers.. 
 We waited at most 5 minutes after we got to our seats, 
and then the lights dimmed. Everyone in the place started 
screaming at once, and the feeling you got when Raine 
walked on stage,singing the beginning of Automatic
Flowers (do doo, do do do..) was undescribable. Cheering 
and Shouting, and Singing along, I watched one of my 
all-time favourite bands of all time sing my favourite songs. 
After AF was over, they started right in with Hope, and
then Superman's Dead, during which Raine asked 
us to sing with him. During Car Crash, one of the first of many
short film clips was shown on the screen. This one was a view 
from a car, speeding over the road. 
 The speakers above our heads had some sort of clown on a 
trapeze bar painted on them or something, and every so 
often they'd give out an eerie glow. During the story behind 
Trapeze(I've heard it only once before--at the Alanis 
Morisssette concert a few years ago), I nearly cried. And 
nearly killed the girls sitting behind us, who every chance 
they got, would scream out, "TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRT!!!" 
*sigh*. I just turned around and told them to shut up. 
The spotlight went out at some point during this time, and 
Raine looked up at the lighting guy and asked him to turn 
it back on. He was telling his friends a story. 
 They continued on through the set, getting more intense 
and unbelievably good after every song. They did a piano 
version of Julia, one of my favourite songs.  I didn't like it 
as much as the original, but who am I to complain?? 
Naveed was possibly one of the best songs sung that night, 
during the quiet part of the song, Fox(the guy on both CD 
covers, and shown repeatidly throughout the concert in 
independant videos the band made specifically for this tour), 
flashed on the screen, reading the poem that inspired Our 
Lady Peace to name themselves Our Lady Peace. I don't 
think I've ever heard a poem read with such feeling before. 
It just sent shivers down my spine, and watching Raine up 
there, looking like he was in complete and total angst, made
me want to watch the concert forever.
 They ended off with an awesome version of The Beatles 
"Dear Prudence", but you knew they were coming back. 
As if everyone at the concert had made an agreement 
before the show, we all started shouting OUR LADY PEACE 
over and over again, the people in the stands stomping 
their feet, and the people on the floor standing on their chairs. 
The noise was defenaning. The band must get the greatest 
feeling hearing that. They finally came back on, and sang
(I believe) 4am and Clumsy. 
 I've seen OLP in concert several times before; during the 
Alanis Morissette tour, at the Dinwoodie last year, Headling 
for EDGEfest, and now at the colliseum.. This has by far 
been the best concert of theirs I've seen. Everything was 
perfect, from the opening band, to the lighting, to the videos. 
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