Re: that crap fest held on the Commons last weekend.
The really poor turnout suggests that Concerts on the Commons should be moved to an area that seats about 10,000 and doesn’t poison miles of surrounding area with toxic shit some people call music. Is there a place like that we can use in Halifax? Hmmm, I don’t know. THE METRO CENTRE is the only thing that comes to mind.
For fuck sakes, how much is this crap concert going to cost us? Another couple million like it ended up costing us for Paul, for that almost 40 year-old trashy slut-bag and her stupid little beat boxers? Weezer could have played the Paragon.
This city is retarded, the councilors who support the commons concerts are retarded, and the Promoters are retarded. Someone fucking stop these retards! —Don’t even get me started on the convention centre
This article appears in Jul 22-28, 2010.
Oh you sound like a joy to live with …
Oh STFU about the commons concert already….GAWD!!!
Got to agree with Lorilulu. Like africville and the Explosion, it’s done, it’s history. Time to be positive and look forward to the next public event that we are postively going to despise.
I predict the truck and dog population to increase dramatically very soon.
A tsunami of denim with a thin skin of cowboy hats is about to hit the commons.
my magic 8 ball told me so.
Yeah, but the dude who made “The Postman” and “Waterworld”. If Kevin Smith wasn’t a fat fuck with ADD he could make comedies that long too.
I LIKED WATERWORLD…. it was a sadistic horror-show of a bomb but I was genuinely entertained… and Dennis Hopper is really the ultimate bad dude in pretty much every role he takes.
I should write a test… maybe I’m simple.
Mr. Brooks was excellent too…. so very hit and miss.
now the postman… yeesh.I’d rather watch static with subtitles than that tragedy.
Whatever year it was the last time Canada Post pulled a pre-Xmas Strike, they’d been off the job for a week and the trailer for Postman was showing at the theatres. Talk about audience participation. If they’d stayed off the job for another month we could have had a 4 hour Rocky Horror on our hands.
yea I’m still scratching my head over that show like how many tickets to a novelty act and a alternative/pseudo indie rock band did they think would sell?
The whole point of summertimes concerts is having them outside, so total veto on your metro centre idea. Also – excessive use of “retard” makes me hate you. Shit, Black Eyed Peas even sang the “let’s get it started” version despite dropping tonnes of “mother fuckers”.
What band constitutes using the commons for a concert? My guess is only your favorite band which will be attended by 10 or your closest neo hippie douchebag friends. Don’t get me wrong, the lineup wasn’t my favorite and I was not in attendance. I do have to say though, BEP (unfortunatly) is a big name act, and Halifax has to promote itself as a concert destination for big name acts, so I guess you might have to put up with a little crap before you get the concert you want. Lighten the fuck up and enjoy the summer, try not to sit in your moms basement crying over something that has already passed.
It isn’t a show until BEP girl pees her pants.
I think I inhaled a little bit too much of the exhaust from the van in front of me while driving home (or more like getting stuck in the rotary traffic).
I’ve been to many decently real rock concerts in my time…in other cities. Stevie Ray Vaughn opening for Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, Supertramp, Frank Zappa are but a few of many bands whose live shows I’ve enjoyed. The closest Halifax has come to any of these was the Macca show last summer, and maybe The Stones a few years ago. Consistency appears to be the lacking element. It’s time to get some big name performers here on a regular basis and have real concerts. Gilmour/Rogers would be epic! But alas, I daydream too much. (sigh)
“real concerts” ohhhhhhhhhhhhh what’s real anymore …
Such poor turn out at the concerts proves that NO ONE CARES. If the promoters would be in current talent, instead of yesterday’s washed up has beens…maybe then people would pay to go. Get the concerts out of the city….the turn out sucks, let us enjoy our green space with peace.
We can all be thankful that Kid Rock didn’t come and subject Halifax to a mullet-wearing honkey convention. Yes, I’m white, but I am NOT a honkey.
Halifax is too small to consistently attract decent big-name material, methinks. But I lived close to London for a few years, so I’m probably just spoiled from living somewhere where virtually EVERY musical act out there you can think of is bound to stop at now and again.
The choice of acts for the Commons concerts truly was abysmal, though. Even a slightly more obscure act like Broken Social Scene or the like probably would have generated a much more positive reception. Seriously, Kid fucking Rock?
Some of those so-called ‘has-beens’ could outsell and outperform half of what passes for talent these days. There’s a reason why their music is timeless. Quality beats quantity anyday. I remember when a band put out an album they did it with integrity. All or most of the tunes were killer. (And still are, decades later.) A lot of bands these days think it’s okay to release an album with one or two good tracks with the rest composed of filler crap.
I just wish they would clean up the effin’ mess.
It’s been 3 days and The Commons is still blocked off with fences. I do realize they are open in places but not the right places that would allow me to get home quickly at night.
see all previous comments osf mine on these so called concerts.
nerdlinger: that shit’s staying up for the next shit show in August.
Hey all the set up crew made money.
That is all I care about.
No show that comes will EVER please everyone
but we do have the Garrison Grounds & if the assholes who have designated that area a place that can’t handle crowds over 15000 IMO need to give their heads a shake & revisit that number
I know years ago when the stage played to the whole aide of the hill you can get 25+ there, but by putting the stage further up toward the high school, the hill is to the left side of stage & fewer people fit