Arrogant Worms
Well, last night I saw the Arrogant Worms perform for the sixth time. As usual, they put on a great show, and it was nice to have Mike McCormick back (who was missing last time due to a family emergency).
They performed at the Knox Metropolitan church in downtown Regina, it was pretty well packed, with a wide range of ages represented. I went with Christine and my parents, none of whom had seen the Worms perform before; I think they were all impressed.
Chris, Trevor and Mike played many of the concert favourites, including "Jesus' Brother Bob", "Carrot Juice is Murder" and "Mounted Animal Nature Trail", complete with 'moos', 'oinks' and 'meows' (for the bear) from the audience. After the show I bought a copy of their latest album, Beige, and lined up to get it signed by Chris Patterson and Trevor Strong (Mike hadn't shown up yet). I asked Chris whether they had ever performed "Mounted Animal Nature Trail" and not had the audience fill in sounds for the dead animals; he said that it had happened a couple of times, but the song went really slow when that happened.
One thing I noticed is that Mike McCormick is actually quite good with that guitar of his; I'm itching to get back into playing mine, I missed it when I was in Ontario.
So, the concert gets a big thumbs up (although Worms don't have thumbs...), and I'll be happy to go see them again in the future. They've had quite an impressive run, more than fifteen years now, but the Arrogant Worms enthusiasm remains undiminished after all that time.
Oh, and of course, they ended the set with "Last Saskatchewan Pirate", and only a day late for International Talk Like a Pirate day.
They performed at the Knox Metropolitan church in downtown Regina, it was pretty well packed, with a wide range of ages represented. I went with Christine and my parents, none of whom had seen the Worms perform before; I think they were all impressed.
Chris, Trevor and Mike played many of the concert favourites, including "Jesus' Brother Bob", "Carrot Juice is Murder" and "Mounted Animal Nature Trail", complete with 'moos', 'oinks' and 'meows' (for the bear) from the audience. After the show I bought a copy of their latest album, Beige, and lined up to get it signed by Chris Patterson and Trevor Strong (Mike hadn't shown up yet). I asked Chris whether they had ever performed "Mounted Animal Nature Trail" and not had the audience fill in sounds for the dead animals; he said that it had happened a couple of times, but the song went really slow when that happened.
One thing I noticed is that Mike McCormick is actually quite good with that guitar of his; I'm itching to get back into playing mine, I missed it when I was in Ontario.
So, the concert gets a big thumbs up (although Worms don't have thumbs...), and I'll be happy to go see them again in the future. They've had quite an impressive run, more than fifteen years now, but the Arrogant Worms enthusiasm remains undiminished after all that time.
Oh, and of course, they ended the set with "Last Saskatchewan Pirate", and only a day late for International Talk Like a Pirate day.
posted by Matt at 8:25 a.m.
3 Comments:
It was a good concert . . thanks for taking me!
--A certain blonde journalist
How was Knox Met as a venue for the Worms? And was it expensive like when they performed at Dark Hall?
I miss the Worms so much! I'm going to have to go out and see them here, even though it will be weird without Matt being there.
The venue was pretty good, it was very well-lit (which became a source for running jokes throughout the concert), and acoustics were fine. The show was a bit pricier than those we used to go to, $25 in advance, $30 at the door, but not too bad.
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