This was the best shot I was able to get of Adele from sons and daughters.
By the time I decided to pull my camera out (never right away but always during the third or fourth song), her energy was up and even though it seemed like she was still for moments, I couldn’t catch her. But she was so cool - walking on stage with her glass of wine (white) and wearing this pink and silver 70s sci-fi uniform / dress. She was tiny but powerful looking. I was sad that I could only understand half of what she said between songs. On top of a Scottish-accent, her words melted together beyond the point of being able to pick them out. I was hoping the guitarist would translate.
The opening band, Bodies of Water, was a nice surprise. It was like a musical but without dancing save for one person jumping in place. Every song had a portion where the band repetitively chanted in unison and it absolutely worked. I’m horrible at describing music, go listen to them. They acted like Americans who have never visited Canada before. The organist rubbed her stomach as she told us that she filled up on poutine before the show. How do you chant after poutine? She made a few comments about the US/CDN dollar, the last one kind of trailing off because we weren’t with her on that topic. We wondered where they were from (our guess was the midwest) and asked her after the show. LA. Oh - didn’t expect that…but, they could be “from” from the midwest. Later research found that two of the members are from Fargo, ND. I don’t remember where I read this so I could be wrong.
There are other entertaining things created by the band including animations, a quiz, and bit about a Toronto show in their tour notes that says something about Canada that maybe we know but don’t know:
Canada feels like a mixture of America and Europe. At our shows in Canada, people were different. You couldn’t really tell if they were interested in what was happening or not, but then afterwards people were very complimentary and they bought a lot of our wares.
and then some more commentary on the dollar:
Maybe that’s just because of the weak US dollar. 10 canadian dollars is CHEAP for a CD (for them). Wait until they got home and realized that our record is terrible. Looks like we got the last laugh, suckers. Thanks for the weird Canadian money.
