1 post tagged “my brightest diamond”
I didn't ever say anything about the Sufjan Steven's concert at St. Andrews-Wesley. It was pretty magical.
I confess I had to fight my mounting irritation at the beginning of the evening--you know that kind of irritation that can escalate and ruin an evening unredeemably?--when, despite arriving almost an hour before the show was supposed to start, we stood in the fog and the drizzle for two hours waiting to be let in. And then when we did finally get it, the opening set by My Brightest Diamond had already begun. We were an hour early!
And we had to sit two rows from the back. We couldn't believe when we got inside that only half the crowd had been let in because the place was already packed. I can never see anything at a show, that's just how it is, but it's always so distressing for whomever I've gone with. And so while I queued up behind about fifty women waiting to use one of the two stalls in the women's washroom, Jenny found a hymnal for me to sit on. It helped! Also it had a nice yogic effect on my pelvic tilt. Sadly, United Church goers don't kneel so there was no nice kneeler to rest my feet on.
(Which reminded me of this ancient woman who hit me, HARD, for putting my feet up on the kneeler in the Cathedral in the zócalo in DF. Which itself reminded me of countless slaps in the back of the head at mass as a child.)
Anyway, the setting was perfect and the audience was silent and reverent and the whole thing was just lovely. And over promptly at eleven.
While we stood outside, the long line snaking around the block, all hipstered out, this hipster chick came up to us and asked, Hey, what's going on here? And I said, It's the rapture! Do you have a ticket? Ah church.
I really liked My Brightest Diamond, whose singer took advantage of the gothic revival acoustic architecture to break out her operatic range. You can listen to their entire album for free here.
