The New Pornographers

Over a week ago I went to the Tivoli de Helling in Utrecht to see one of my favorite Vancouver bands, The New Pornographers. I was really excited to have the chance to see them as I really love their happy sound and play their CD's on a pretty heavy rotation on my iPod.



I liked the fact they were all so relaxed looking, and found it funny to watch the drummer Kurt Dahle do his magic when remembering the last time I saw him was many many moons ago when he played with Age of Electric on the Vancouver/ Canadian scene.

And A.C. (Carl) Newman the lead singer/ guitarist I have not really heard since my brother sent me a Destroyer album ages ago.. but very cool anyway. They played a great set, full of energy and had a whole lot of people dancing and jumping to the music. I was very sorry that I missed them the next day when I was in London, but at least I got to see such a nice dynamic show for a Sunday evening.

I won't go into the details other than to say it was sad that so many people were there because they thought that Neko Case was going to be playing with them as she was on the CD's. But as I discovered fairly quickly she was on her own tour of Europe. In fact I saw her 6 days later in Rotterdam Nighttown Theater. It was a very sweet show and I loved the fact that none of her songs were over 2 min long.