Venue:
Address: 59 Sainte-Catherine Street East, Montréal, QC H2X 1K5
Métropolis, now officially known as MTELUS, is a historic 2,350-capacity concert venue in the heart of Montréal’s Quartier des Spectacles. Located at 59 Sainte-Catherine Street East, it is a premier destination for rock, pop, and electronic acts, and is heavily utilized during major festivals like the Montreal International Jazz Festival 1)
Reviews: 2
From: IN%”stephane.gelinas@
11-NOV-1994 01:09:37.12
To: IN%”sugar@soda.berkeley.edu”
Subj: Sugar in Montreal
I’m back from the 10 Nov 1994 Sugar show in Montreal.
The opening band was Magnapop, which was quite good actually. I wasn’t familiar with them, so I thought they would be some lame band a la
Pearl Jam or something like that. Well, needless to say I was pleasantly surprised. My only complaint is that the set was too short. They played for approximately 45 minutes, with no encores. Then again, they didn’t get much reaction from the crowd after they finished playing. I guess we were all too anxious to hear Sugar 🙂
Anyway, Sugar did one hell of a good gig. Bob seemed to be in a very good mood. He didn’t talk to the audience (I kind of expected that from
what people posted here 😉 but he did smile a lot during the gig. After the 4th song or so, I figured that he was such in a good mood, he wouldn’t play “The Slim” and be in a depressing mood for the rest of the night. I was right…
To make that up, they did play two songs I didn’t expected: A Good Idea and, yes, Tilted!!!!!!!!! Have you guys ever watched bob’s hands while he plays that tune? I’ve got simply one word to describe it: amazing.
My only complaint is that Bob and David’s voices were muffled by the other sounds. A lot of the songs basically sounded like instrumental versions as far as I’m concerned! They could improve on that, but the rest was super fantastic. They did two encores.
During Magnapop I was on the balcony, but when Sugar went on stage, I went right in front of Bob. I had to deal with the “moshing” but it wasn’t too bad. There were only 4 or 5 times when I had to watch out because some loser tried to “surf” or stage dive. The rest of the time, people were moshing around me, but didn’t touch me. Much better crowd than at some hardcore concerts I’ve been.
I don’t have a setlist as I was too busy admiring my musical God 🙂
Here’s what I remember they played (first 4 songs are in order, the rest, well, not at all 😉 Maybe Mark remember the setlist better than I do.
The Gift
Company Book
Hoover Dam
??? (Maybe on the new EP they released, I wasn’t able to get it yet 🙁
When Diamonds Turns to Halo
Frustration
A Good Idea
Running Out Of Time
Your Favorite Thing
Changes
Granny Cool
If I can’t change your mind
Tilted
??? (Maybe on the new EP they released, I wasn’t able to get it yet 🙁
Clownmaster
Armenia City In The Sky
Explode and Make Up
Did you guys noticed that both David and Malcolm wears earplugs but Bob
doesn’t? Anyway… Bottom line I hope they come back soon.
… Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
— Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
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From: IN%”markw@ “Mark WINFORD” 11-NOV-1994 02:50:12.09
To: IN%”sugar@csua.berkeley.edu”
Subj: Sugar in Montreal
Sugar just rocked Montreal. Set list was roughly as follows: Gift,
Company Book, Hoover Dam, (and then out of order) Changes, A Good Idea,
In The Eyes of My Friends, Going Home, IICCYM, Granny Cool, Mind is an
Island, Your Favorite Thing, Frustration, Clownmaster, Where Diamonds
Are Halos, and then (thank god) they ended the set with Tilted. The
first encore was Aremina City in the Sky followed by Gee Angel. The
second on encore was Explode and Make Up.
It was a good show. The volume was perfect. I didn’t were earplugs and
my ears aren’t ringing–but I have yet to go to bed which is the true
test. The mix was good. The vocals were pretty buried. But the
trade off was that Bob’s gorgeous guitar sound was front and center in
the mix.
Highlights? Most definately Bob freaking out during the Octavia pedal
rift in Gift. Going Home, Gee Angel, and YFT worked really well. And
of course the tried and true _Copper Blue_ tracks came off great.
The crowd was pretty mellow. They freaked out mostly to A Good Idea and
Hoover Dam. Seems as though they liked Company Book quite a bit also.
Like most people have said, Bob smiled a lot and generally looked like he
was having a good time. I noticed that Malcom went through a remarkable
amount of drum sticks. I don’t know if he breaks them or if they just
fly out of his hands. But it was funny, they just kept zinging off over
his head, and then he’d grab some new ones without missing a beat.
That’s about it. Others who were at the Montreal show can add
stuff. Looking over my cd’s I notice I forgot to mention that they
played Running Out of Time also. The above tracks with Running Out of Time
are, I think, everything that they played.
Mark Winford
11-NOV-1994 16:21:08.23
To: IN%”sugar@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU”
Subj: re:random bullets
A few quick points :
1. Caught the show in Montreal, the song that still stands out the most was Gift. I couldn’t believe all that guitar noise permeating the air. It was quite awe-inspiring.
2. If you are a real Bob fan, you should be more than happy that Sugar is finally receiving some moderate exposure. The last time I checked, even Musicians had to pay rent. I read the mini-interview with Paul Westerberg in the latest Rolling Stone, I felt rather sad about the fact that here we are now, ten or so odd years down the road, and he’s never found commercial success (despite loads of talent IMHO). I guess if Bob means anything to you, you should be more than pleased about the fact that younger fans have purchased the albums and gone to the shows despite the fact that Bob has not compromised his artistic integrity.
3. I was shocked and appalled at the fact that no Sugar T-Shirts were being sold at that show 🙁
Would any compassionate soul out in Sugarland do me the big favour of picking one up for me during one of the upcoming shows ?
I can only imagine how cool the print must be…I would be eternally grateful (please e-mail me personally If you feel like making a very positive contribution to my life)
later
Ed Taboada
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| If you were a pill, I’d take a handful at my will |
| and I’d knock you back with something sweet and strong… |
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| -Paul Westerberg |
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PS. we got to hear Tilted and A Good Idea……
From: IN%”pretzel “Stephane Rouleau” 11-NOV-1994 20:51:23.58
To: IN%”sugar@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU”
Subj: Sugar in Montreal
Hi there. Was at the gig last night (of course!). Been waiting to see Bob live since I missed his last appearance in Montreal, … 7 years ago.
What can I say? It wasn’t even half as loud as I thought it was going to be. Heck, from reading the digest I was going in there expecting to get my face peeled off.
And it was a bit short. But thinking back on it, if you factor in the no-talk-between-tunes bit, then I guess it amounts to a normal show.
They also played that TV Mix B-Side tune (I’m terrible with names!)
I couldn’t stay afterwardsm but my girlfriend did and got two of my CDs signed. A friend of ours was bugging Bob to write something witty on it, and he kept saying “I’m not good for that kind of thing.”
So she said “Write something like ‘Eat green eggs and ham’!” So he wrote “Steph, eggs.” And shrugged. Ha.
Oh and Stephane Gelinas, sorry if I bumped into you, was just following the crowd around. (Which, by the way, looked very lost for most of the B-Sides they played)
Steph.
Waterloo ON: Federation Hall, University of Waterloo – November 09, 1994