Our Lady Peace is...
Our Lady Peace are Canadian rockers with a difference...
This page is new and under construction at the moment, so please bear with me.
LYRICS
Below is a review of when I saw them last year, it's also posted on Rich and Shelley's site...
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Review by Melanie
March 20, 2003
I must admit, when I went to see Avril Lavigne with a friend of mine, I held no high hopes for enjoying the setlist of the support bad, I'd shamefully never heard of them, and while waiting for the several hours to ensure my place at the front, I mused over what it held in store.
I secured the place I always got whenever I've been to the Academy, and waited for Our Lady Peace. When they came on, I braced myself for, to be honest, not a lot. But almost as soon as they started their all too short set, I was transfixed, not only by Raine's amazing voice, but by his electric stage presence, he owned the crowd that night, each song winning more and more people over. I vividly remember (well, it has almost been a year!) everyone clapping along with their arms in the air, I think it was to Innocent. The crowd were tough, I felt so old surrounded by pre-teen fans donning Avril's trademark style, but more and more got into the swing of things as the set went on.
Avril came on and the crowd after being sufficiently 'warmed up' went mad! I actually feared at several points that I would pass out from being crushed! So many poeple were trying to elbow me off the banisters and barge their way to the front, there was a core group of crowd surfers, who seemed to be doing a circuit and weren't interested in the music at all! But it was a very enjoyable evening, full of great music and truly acrobatic speaker climbing!
They were without a doubt the best support act I've seen at any of the gigs I've been to, and I can't wait for the next time they come over here, this time I want to see them headline! I'd love to see a whole set, it was far too short! That was the one problem. Since the gig, I've become a true Our Lady Peace convert, roll on the next tour!
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These are the pictures I took that evening, if I'd known how much I would come to like them, I'd have taken so many more!
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Below is a copy of the poem that inspired the name Our Lady Peace......
OUR LADY PEACE
How far is it to peace, the piper sighed,
by Mark Van Doren
The solitary, sweating as he paused.
Asphalt the noon; the ravens, terrified,
Fled carrion thunder that percussion caused.
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The envelope of Earth was powder loud;
The taut wings shivered, driven at the sun.
The piper put his pipe away and bowed.
Not here, he said. I hunt the love-cool one,
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The dancer with the clipped hair. Where is she?
We shook our heads, parting for him to pass.
Our lady was of no such trim degree,
And none of us had seen her face alas.
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She was the very ridges that we must scale,
Securing the rough top. And how she smiled
Was how our strength would issue. Not to fail
Was having her, gigantis, undefiled,
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For homely goddess, big as the world that burned,
Grandmother and taskmistress, frild and town.
We let the stranger go; but when we turned
Our lady lived, fierce in each other's frown.
Our Lady Peace websites...
The Best There Is! (Rich and Shelley's)
