Buffalo Boy's Blog

I can cross one off my bucket list. I headed out to the Molson Canadian Canal Concert Series last night up in Lockport, its a show I had circled on my calendar since it was announced back in May.Tears for Fears. I have always been a big fan and used to play some of their stuff on the piano.

I went last night with great expectations for the show and I want to first start out by saying that the opening acts were, well they sucked. Who picks the opening acts for the headlining artists?

I understand the shows are free and many of the opening acts are local but come on, give me a break. They had no right being on that stage yesterday with the styles they brought up there. Do a better job at matching the openers with the style of the headliner.

That said, once Tears for Fears hit the stage all that was forgotten, they were one of the top 10 shows that I have seen and that includes 18 or so Tragically Hip shows, a once in a lifetime Police show, Elvis Costello twice, The Cure twice and numerous others.

The musicianship was simply amazing, vocally they were better than ever and the new stuff they played that I admittedly have not added to my collection was just as relevant and some of it better than their hits of the 80s and early 90's.

There was reportedly 15,000+ in attendance and hopefully they will hold up their word and come back to WNY more often, Id see them again. I can officially cross them off my bucket list of bands to see before I die. They didn't make my original list, they would have made top 15 had I gone that far, but knowing what I know now about their live show, they probably should get a bump up into the top ten.