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MUSE brings The Resistance to Toronto

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on March 10, 2010 by MarkEightThree

MUSE returned to Toronto on Monday for the first Canadian stop of The Resistance tour, bringing with them the L.A. alt-rockers Silversun Pickups. Playing through a set filled mostly with older hits, MUSE occasionally dipped into a few tracks from their latest [but far from greatest] album The Resistance. Frontman Matt Bellamy was a force on stage, playing to all corners of a packed Air Canada Centre before ending with the western/sci-fi opus Knights of Cydonia.

I was excited to see Silversun Pickups live as well, but sadly the energy just wasn’t there and they were clearly the second-fiddle of the night. It was still awesome to hear Panic Switch and Lazy Eye live though. My favourite performance of the night was definitely Plug In Baby, which was complemented by giant eyes falling from the ceiling of the ACC.  Even though I’m not crazy about their latest work, MUSE has a catalog of awesome tracks that I would be up for seeing live anytime.

Check out the videos on YouTube and the photos on Google Picasa.

Here’s the night’s setlist from Setlist.fm:

  1. Uprising
  2. Resistance
  3. New Born
  4. Map of the Problematique
    (+Who Knows Who riff)
  5. Supermassive Black Hole
  6. Guiding Light
  7. Hysteria
    (Interlude intro)
  8. Nishe
  9. United States Of Eurasia
  10. Feeling Good
    (Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley cover) (Take a Bow intro)
  11. Helsinki Jam
  12. Undisclosed Desires
  13. Starlight
  14. Plug In Baby
    (+YYZ riff)
  15. Time Is Running Out
  16. Unnatural Selection
    Encore:
  17. Exogenesis: Symphony, Part 1: Overture
  18. Stockholm Syndrome
    (+War Within a Breath riff)
  19. Knights of Cydonia
    (Man with a harmonica intro)

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2010 Canadian Autoshow Photo Gallery

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on March 5, 2010 by MarkEightThree

The 2010 Canadian International Autoshow has come and gone without much fanfare, which was to be expected considering the beating the car industry has taken lately. Aside from the heavily CRX inspired Honda CRZ and Scion lineups, there wasn’t much else to speak of at the event. Most automakers played it safe this year and kept the risks and surprises to a minimum, opting to stick with reliable sellers instead. Visit my Picasa web album to view images from the event.

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Kings Of Leon_Closer/Live in Toronto

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on September 2, 2009 by MarkEightThree


My favourite song off of Only By the Night, performed live at the Air Canada Centre on April 21st, 2009. Recorded by my friend Grace, directed by myself.

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MSTRKRFT/N.O.R.E. want you to bounce

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on March 1, 2009 by MarkEightThree

F-cking awes-me.  I can’t wait until their new album Fist of God drops on March 17th, it should be epic. If you like this track and still can’t get enough, check out the insanely good remix by fellow T.O. boys Let’s Go to War. You gotta love the sounds coming out of this city these days!

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Mo Johnston is bringing footy back

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on July 14, 2008 by MarkEightThree

From the Archives: In October 2006 I had the opportunity to interview Mo Johnston, who had just recently been appointed Head Coach of the newly created MLS soccer club Toronto FC. Johnston, a former Scottish striker who made his name playing for Celtic and the Rangers of the Scottish Premier League, had nothing but optimistic thoughts on the club’s future and looked forward to getting things started in Toronto.
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How did the plan to bring an MLS team to Toronto get set in motion?

Obviously the guys here at MLSE have done their homework. They’re diligent. They’ve invested money, they saw the under-20′s coming here and they knew there was a stadium being built and they were already on board. As soon as they got behind it, things became a realistic opportunity in terms of getting a stadium completed and contending for an MLS championship.

In terms of on-the-field success, what are your expectations for the first season of the Toronto FC?

I’m not going to be shouting crazy and stupid things about us winning a championship. What we’ll do is we’ll compete, we’ll do our homework in terms of scouting the good players here. We’ll work very hard. We have a roster of 18 with 10 development players. The 18 that are on the full roster will be paid, and the younger developmental group will obviously be sliced up from the league, which means these kids won’t make too much, but they’ll be making progress and hopefully they can get to the 18.

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A Journey Through Kensington

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on October 17, 2005 by MarkEightThree

On October 15, 2004, I traveled down to Toronto’s Kensington Market to shoot a photo story. These eight photos are a glimpse of what I captured that day. Photo eight of the screaming fish was published in a pictorial featured in the Humber et Cetera.


PHOTO EIGHT PUBLISHED IN HUMBER ET CETERA 10.28.04

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