#10
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Propagandhi
Ottobar
Check another band off my list of bands to see before I/they die. Between my freshman year of high school when I first got into punk and my freshman year of college before I started down that strange path that leads to where ever I am now musically, Winnipeg's Propagandhi were one of my favorites. I think I wore out my cassette of 1993's How to Clean Everything and 1996's Less Talk More Rock was a favorite of both my college roommate and me. I also have their early 2001 release Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes (strangely prophetic, though completely written and recorded in the before time), but I never got into that record. I also credit them (and Bad Religion) with lighting the fires of protest in me that got me really interested in foreign policy and such. I'm not exactly sure why I never saw them before, though I do remember hearing that they disliked coming to the US.
The show was, of course, sold out and I arrived just before they took the stage. I guess there were some problems with the sound onstage throughout the set but I didn't really notice in the audience. Propagandhi has a new album out (duh), which is actually their first since 2005 and only the second since TETA. They played a mix of old and new stuff, so although I was disappointed that they didn't do "Pre-teen McCarthyist" they still covered a lot of ground. Only Chris(?) sang though. I wish they could have/would have played a set about twice as long but I'll take what I can get, I guess. Hopefully they'll come back again sometime.
And I almost forgot that when I was walking to the car afterwords that some dude yelled at me from across the street "hey miss, you got 80 cent?" - unbelievable.
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