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Brett User Info... | Oh boy what a show. I haven't had so much fun in a long time. Wished I could have gone to Van to see them tonight. Damn work! - Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:47am | ||
D'Arcy User Info... | damn being 17. - Sun, 26 Jun 2005 3:36pm | ||
shann User Info... | agreed... their set just wouldn't end, and i loved it. - Sun, 26 Jun 2005 6:06pm | ||
Sax Hoochy User Info... | Totally true, fantastic show. - Mon, 27 Jun 2005 7:44am | ||
Mark Wallace User Info... | Crantastic show. - Mon, 27 Jun 2005 3:17pm | ||
Brandon User Info... | Crantastic?? never heard of that one, have heard of CRAM-TASTIC. I think that the show was both of those and then some. I smoked alotta dope in that place man! whooo-wheeeee. So much fun. My one regret was not smuggling all my beers inside in my horn case. Instead I bought them at the last second and stowed em in the van, to be brought into sugar 2 at a time pocket style. Fuck I love that venue. The song they played off the Slackers/Pully CD was fucking so damn good, but I cant believe I still remember that!! hahahhaha - Mon, 27 Jun 2005 4:12pm | ||
Haden User Info... | Sad I wasn't there. Siblings weddings unfortunately get priority when there's a conflict. I heard the show in Vic was sweet. How was the Van show? I so wish I could've been there.....so sad....:( - Mon, 27 Jun 2005 5:19pm | ||
Dane User Info... | The Vancouver show was one of the best concerts I've ever seen at the W.I.S.E Hall, HANDS DOWN!! It was a little piece of paradise... Vic Ruggiero dedicated Wasted Days to me and they finally played RUDE AND RECKLESS after five years of dreaming that they'd play it! I fucking love that song!!!!:) It's one of my favourite Slackers songs of all time. We may have to wait another two years to see them again unless it's a fly-in... Sigh... But again they were DOPE!!!!! - Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:28pm | ||
matt c User Info... | Slackers were on fire! Should do a great job to stoke the fire for Skafest. Thanks for the show, Dane! - Tue, 28 Jun 2005 7:02am | ||
Bastard User Info... | Mr. Bill Collector sir...... Hey Brandon, that song is awe-diddily-awesome, to bad about your mic cord fuckin up! - Tue, 28 Jun 2005 8:14am | ||
Brandon User Info... | Yesh yesh, and the smoke machine was spraying me with butning hot liquid. Dane are you mental they played rude and reckless in vic!!!!!!!!!! They started it out with some crazy fucking intro. - Tue, 28 Jun 2005 8:31am | ||
Dane User Info... | Yeah, they played Rude and Reckless at Sugar but I was wasn't able to be in the venue for the whole time when they were playing it. I caught the tail end of them playing it at Sugar. In Vancouver I got to hear it from beginning to end:) I dug the show at Sugar though sooooooo much! I was just busier doing things at that show so I couldn't sit back as easily as I could in Vancouver. - Wed, 29 Jun 2005 8:51pm | ||
Brandon User Info... | Your the man Dane, Keiras in town for a few days I think she'd like to have a few drinkie poos with you in the mix. I'll give you a ring for Canada day bro. Possible pre downtown bbq at my place. - Wed, 29 Jun 2005 9:53pm | ||
ska-t User Info... | http://straight.com/content.cfm?id=11356 Georgia Straight Article Slackers leave the WISE’s walls sweating By mike usinger Publish Date: 30-Jun-2005 To the chagrin of Dave Hillyard (left) and Victor Ruggiero (right), Glen Pine would often treat the crowd to spirited but unnecessary free-form approximations of the trombone solo from Thomas Dolby’s “Hyperactive”. Tommy Au photo. The Slackers At the WISE Hall on Sunday, June 26 The brilliance of a concert isn’t always measured by mind-blowing displays of musical virtuosity or captivating-as-a-car-crash performances. Sometimes you can judge the success of a show simply by looking at what’s happening on the dance floor. On Sunday night, NYC ska kings the Slackers took about five seconds to get a sold-out WISE Hall crowd skanking. Halfway through the opening song, “Propaganda”, it was like being at a full-on Kingston wake for King Tubby. In a rare sight for Vancouver, the dancing wasn’t limited to a few lunatics who don’t give a shit that the rest of the crowd thinks they’re insane. Everyone was moving in one sweaty mass, with the casual fans by the back bar giving it as hard as the Vespa jockeys at the front of the stage. Standing still was simply not an option, making for one of those devastatingly perfect nights where you can’t wait to get to the merchandise table to show your appreciation. And where the next morning, no matter how hung-over you are, you want to crawl out of bed and do it all over again. The appeal of the Slackers is simple: whereas most North American ska units sounds like they want to be the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the veteran quintet would rather hang with the legends of Studio One. As such, the set was aimed squarely at purists who’d kill to have shared a Red Stripe with Desmond Dekker. Hipsters in trucker hats mingled with beaming skinheads, crusty punks, long-haired hippies, bespectacled record-store clerks, and 40-somethings in faded Specials T-shirts. If the night reinforced anything, it was that the fabled rock-steady sound transcends musical boundaries. The Slackers themselves aren’t the sharpest-looking dudes. Although singer-organist Victor Ruggiero appeared to have just stepped out of a 2-Tone clothes catalogue, trombonist Glen Pine and sax-player David Hillyard were rocking the unkempt day-trader look. Bassist Marcus Geard was the strangest of the bunch, partly because he was wearing a retina-searing red suit and partly because he plays his electric bass like it’s a standup. Even though they aren’t going to get any best-dressed nominations at the MTV Awards, the Slackers have style to burn where their old-school-indebted music is concerned. From “You Must Be Good” to “No Love”, the band steered a decidedly mid-tempo course, injecting its defiantly retro brand of ska with shots of Depression-era jazz, undiluted soul, and Latin-tinged world music. Picking highlights is impossible, but let’s start with the sight of the one-man dancing machine that was Pine leaping into the audience for a trombone solo three songs into the set. After spending a good minute or so slapping fans’ hands after the number was over, he returned to the stage to bust moves that were, for the most part, pretty fly for a white guy. Just as cool was the rapturous reception that greeted the opening notes of “Dave’s Friend” and “Wasted Days”. Then there was the fact that by the time the band got to “International War Criminal”, the WISE Hall was so steamy that the heating ducts running along the ceiling were literally raining condensation on the crowd. Through it all, bemused-looking guitarist T.J. Scanlon stood there chewing gum like a man aiming for an endorsement deal with Dubble Bubble. Ruggiero, meanwhile, proved a strangely captivating frontman; he doesn’t move much, but he’s got so much style, sartorial and otherwise, that you can’t help but be mesmerized. After an hour-and-a-half, the Slackers left the stage, the lights came up, and the house music came on. Twenty minutes later, with the crowd still screaming for more, the band set up and did it all over again. At a quarter-to-12 on a school night, the dance floor was still packed. Everyone was skanking. From the stage, it must have looked brilliant. - Thu, 30 Jun 2005 8:32pm | ||
ska-t User Info... | here's some vancouver video footage: http://andrelecomte.no-ip.info/videos/Slackers.wmv .. - Sat, 2 Jul 2005 6:29am | ||
Brandon User Info... | Fuckin sweet - Sat, 2 Jul 2005 5:12pm | ||
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