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July 16, 2003 • Toronto

by Saturday Looks Good To Me

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Diary 01:48
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18 years ago, we released our first big album and immediately went on tour for the entire summer. Listening back to live sets from almost every era of the band reveals some kind of unorthodox approach to translating the long-labored studio creations into a stage show, but it's particularly jarring and hilarious to hear shows from that first big tour.

This show from Toronto at an upstairs venue called Rancho Relaxo was one of our first Canadian shows, and the setlist and general sound are both indicative of how weirdly we were representing ourselves at that point. The set was a little more than half songs from the album we were promoting, but instead of the gentle orchestral pop of the record, they were rendered into sloppy garage rock. The rest of the set was either songs that wouldn't be recorded for a while or covers. One cover of a Greenhornes song I had been obsessed with around then, and a version of a Mahalia Jackson song that The Sights had also been covering live that year. At the time it seemed like a perfectly reasonable way to present our music, but looking back now, I can see how it probably confused more people than not.

For anyone who caught one of those strange shows, or has been following these odd live shows, here's another one from a particular era, just for fun. It was a ridiculous and amazing way to spend the summer.

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released August 6, 2021

Elliot Bergman: Bass, Farfia Organ, Vocals
Steve Middlekauff: Drums, Glockenspiel
Fred Thomas: Guitar, Vocals, Tambourine

Recorded by Five Seventeen
Photo by Rochelle Claudette

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