Comments on: Doves and Wild Light at the Kool Haus in Toronto

By: ___***

___*** — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:27:42 +0000

well the lead singer of wild light jordan is a fucking loser who beat up is last girlfriend

By: Frank Yang

Frank Yang — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:24:19 +0000

I think my mind on Wild Light was made up when they came out on stage, actually. There is little you can do, musically, to redeem yourself from the popped collar. That shit puts me in a blind rage.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:31:40 +0000

you should all check out the job. not because they sound like the doves, but because they are also good.

http://www.theuntoldcity.com/home/2009/6/4/on-the-job.html

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:22:50 +0000

New (kinda old) Wilco song out on Vinyl Saturday

http://www.eachnotesecure.com/record-store-day-presents-vinyl-saturday/

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:23:51 +0000

An earlier commitment kept me from arriving until halfway through the final song of Wild Light’s set. What I heard sounded OK but didn’t wow me, and it sounds like that description would have applied to the whole set. Good to know I don’t need to kick myself for not getting there earlier!

Doves were terrific, as usual. I have to agree on the not quite sell-out, it also got me thinking that they had found their level audience-wise, especially the fact that their last three appearances were all at the same venue. It’s possible that Mercury Rev pushed attendance to the sell-out point on the last tour, but Jimi nonetheless seemed very pleased with the size and enthusiasm of the turnout on Monday.

As much as I thoroughly enjoyed old favourites, the new songs sounded more spacious and seemed to have greater clarity than the older tunes (especially the Last Broadcast tracks), where perhaps the keyboards were filling in a bit too much. But I’d give the KoolHaus sound a (slightly generous) 4 out of 5 on the night. By the way, I too was struck by the break-neck pace of “Snowden”, it felt very rushed and lost a bit of its grandeur. Standouts for me were “Jetstream”, “10:03″, and of course, “The Cedar Room”, which was amazing.

By: scott

scott — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:49:10 +0000

Watching Wild Light I had flashbacks to early Treble Charger… not so much msucially, but in the way that I always felt they should have stuck with one singer (not the one they used most of the time [smirk])… and I felt the same way about Wild Light. The one singer had a bit of a Squeeze / Trash Can Sinatras vibe… but he didn’t do NEARLY enough songs to leave me with anything other than a sour taste about the whole endeavour…