Ideal Lovers opened Saturday’s Suoni Festival show at a packed Sala Rossa. They played funky blues that would be well-suited to an outdoor venue at the Jazz Festival. The standing crowd danced a bit and the band did a good job of warming us up, but I was anxious to see Vic Chestnutt and tired [...]
Where do you crash when you’re playing a show in a random city?
Some friend’s couch/floor/balcony.
Where do people stay on the Plateau when they’re visiting Montreal?
Expensive bed and breakfasts.
That’s changing. For months, the people who brought you Casa del Popolo and Sala Rossa have been labouring away on a new addition to the family. And finally, [...]
Monday Jan, 29/07 Sala Rossa
We got to Sala a little after 10 and we were greeted to a full house. It was packed shoulder to shoulder (to shoulder to shoulder to shoulder…..). We politely elbowed our way to the front caught the last three songs by Brooklyn’s Essex Green. They sounded like good stuff. [...]