By VAL
We arrived
at the Warehouse at 3:30 p.m. and as we were waiting to get
in, a black car pulled up. silverchair stepped out and quickly
went into the building. People were screaming and acting silly.
It was so cold out that I was glad when the doors opened at
7 and we could warm up. My friends and I went to the back
of the soundboard which is always a good view for short people
(I'm 5-5, you do the math!) and waited for an hour before
Grinspoon came on. A friend told me that the best place to
go in the Warehouse to have a perfect view is the bar at the
back, and since I turned 19 (legal drinking age in Ontario)
just a month ago, that is just where I went. I could not believe
how amazing my view was! People were coming into the bar area
and filling up the rail in front to get a good view, so I
stayed in my spot and made sure I kept it.
 Grinspoon
are a pretty cool band. I'd seen them at the Warped Tour in
Buffalo, N.Y. I know they played Champion, Pedestrian and
DCX3, but I'm familiar with all of their material. They played
for about a half an hour. The lead singer (Phil Jamieson)
is sorta "out there!"
After
Grinspoon I got a guy to save my spot and I went over to the
bar on the left side of the Warehouse because there were some
awesome silverchair promo posters for Neon Ballroom and I
wanted one. I asked the girl at the bar if I could have one
and she said people could take them at the end of the show.
She pointed to one and said she would save it for me. Needless
to say, I was one happy camper.
Before
Lit came on, Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe was played on the
P.A. which was cool since I just saw KoRn and Rob Zombie on
Monday. Lit hit the stage about 20 minutes later and I was
pretty much bored as hell with their set. I thought they weren't
a good band; they had no originality. The lead singer was
weird. I wished that that it was Lit before Grinspoon since
Lit played for 45 BORING minutes. After Lit left, my feet
were killing me so I sat down on the floor of the bar.
I was
impressed with the music played between the bands. Before
silverchair came on, songs like The Funky Shit by Prodigy
were played. The lights went out and the neon around Daniel's
and Chris' amps, Ben's bass drum, and Daniel's mic was glowing.
Everyone thought they were coming out then, but when I finally
heard the familiar "You talkin' to me?" from Taxi
Driver, and I knew silverchair were coming out very soon.
 They
hit the stage at exactly 10:15 p.m. and everyone went nuts!
I could not believe my view -- I could see them all perfectly
and since the bar is higher than the floor I had no heads
in my way. Daniel was wearing his "glitter" shirt
from the Anthem video, Chris had his orange pants on, and
Ben was shirtless, as usual. They opened with Emotion Sickness
which I just watched in awe for the whole time. It was absolutely
beautiful, and Daniel's voice was full of emotion. I was mesmerized
by the song.
Next was
Israel's Son, which is always a crowd pleaser, and it got
everyone moving. Daniel was moving his hands all over the
place, pointing to different parts of the room.
Next was
Abuse Me, which is always a favourite. Slave followed which
got me crazy, being one of my favourite songs off Freak Show.
Then
Ana's Song, which was amazing, Suicidal Dream, Point of View
(first time ever live [outside Australia] and it was amazing!)
Paint
Pastel Princess was next, which is so awesome, then Madman
which was so funny! Daniel jumped up on the monitors on the
left side of the stage. Unfortunately I couldn't see him since
there was a pillar in my way. Then he ran to the right monitors
and got up there! He was going nuts! It was so awesome.
The Tomorrow
solo was next. It was awesome, but some MORON threw a shirt
on stage and it landed right on Daniel's guitar, which made
him stop playing for a moment. He simply took the shirt off
and continued playing. Miss You Love was beautiful and The
Door got the whole place going crazy.
 Pure
Massacre was a favourite, Freak and Anthem for the Year 2000
were the last songs before the encore. Daniel made us do the
"WE ARE THE YOUTH" thing, clapping our hands over
our heads. Daniel said a few things in between songs, a lot
of which I couldn't for the life of me understand. But he
did say "Hey Toronto, we love Canada" and he rambled
on about rock and roll for a while -- that we're going to
be going home all tired, smelling of rock! He was moving around
like crazy, putting his middle finger up, hand gestures, it
was great. I sang along to all the songs, as usual.
They left
the stage and chants of "SIL-VER-CHAIR!" came out
of sections of the Warehouse. Five minutes later, Ben came
out alone with a video camera and of course everyone was freaking.
He came to the mic and told everyone to be quiet for a second
and said, "OK, at the count of three, everyone say 'I
love you Ben!'" He counted to three and nearly everyone
in the Warehouse yelled "I LOVE YOU BEN!" It was
absolutely hilarious!
Chris
and Daniel came out and Daniel said a few things about Ben,
that he wanted to have sex with all of us and he said "put
your hand up if you want to make love to Ben," and Daniel
put his hand up which I was killing myself laughing over :)
They played "Satin Sheets" and the crowd went insane!
I knew "Spawn Again" was to be played next because
Daniel said "animal liberation." I was SO glad to
hear Spawn Again because I've never heard it live before.
It was amazing, Daniel did like a "death metal"
thing at the end.
silverchair
left the stage at 11:30. I went to the side bar and the woman
did indeed save the promo Neon Ballroom poster for me so I
was happy. The crowd filed out of the Warehouse. This was
my fourth time seeing the 'chair live and I have to say it
was definitely the most amazing! The new songs are INCREDIBLE
live and I can't wait for them to come back. |
silverchair's
performance at the Warehouse in Toronto was considered by
several observers to be the best of the band's March series
of shows across North America.
Emotion
Sickness