This is a bit late, but here goes... Eric's Trip played at the X-Club, which is a hole in the wall (more on that later) in hamilton, ontario last sunday.
First up was a band from Welland, Ontario called Loophole. I didn't really like them, but they improved alot from the last time I saw them. Everyone else seemed to like them, though, so... :) Next up was a band called Garbage Drink from Hamilton... they were a really good band, but I think it was probably one of their first shows, because the vocals were really quiet and he sounded kind of shakey. Of course, Orange Glass played next and I really enjoyed them. :) Eric's Trip... oh, Eric's Trip... They opened up with _Sunlight_ from _Love Tara_... it sent chills through my body.... they did a couple new songs which I don't know the names of, but one of them was a Julie song, and Rick was running around the stage trying to fix something... I'm not sure exactly what, but he fixed it by the end of the song. They played in Welland the day before, and apparently Rick broke his guitar and was borrowing one of Chris'... and they also mentioned that Julie's amp went up into flames in Welland. Sounds like a weird show. After that, they did some extra loud and crunchy versions of Girlfriend, New Love, and Feeling Around... they played Stove at the Request of someone in the audience, and it was really nice to see them play it again, because Julie is becoming so much more confident with her voice... she was smiling the whole show and her voice was really strong. They played some more songs that I can't remember.... and then, they went into Viewmaster... I love the wall of noise in that song... Viewmaster on Forever Again isn't half as good as the live version. They announced they had two songs left, and they played two songs that are going to be on Purple Blue... after the last song, they were feeding back for about 10 minutes, and they suddenly broke into Blinded... I was happy because I always wanted to see them play it live.. Julie and Mark left the stage and Rick and Chris took turns on the bass and drums and guitar for about 15 minutes of feedback frenzy.. :) It was a great show.. the best Eric's Trip show I've seen yet... :) Anyway, back to the X-Club... apparently, Sonic Unyon has ditched this place (it used to be their headquarters) and I'm starting to see why... it's way too small for the amount of people that were there. (about 200) It's just a really horrible place. And also, there was this guy there (that I've seen at about 10 shows now...) he stands in the middle of the club and swings his hair around in circles... it's really annoying. So Julie or Tara or Rick, if you're reading.. he wasn't making fun of you, he does that for every band that comes to the X-Club... :) Thanks for coming... :) Joel
