Concert Review: The Lovely Feathers with The Ghost is Dancing @ Lee’s Palace

Last night I headed out to Lee’s once again to see the Lovely Feathers. A few of my friends were recommending them and I had nothing else to do so I decided to see for myself.

I missed the first band, Boys Who Say No, which has Jay from Degrassi TNG in it … too bad. (Later on passed him and the guy that plays JT in the hallway, to which Jill said ‘he’s supposed to be dead!!’)

Anyways, then The Ghost is Dancing played and … I’m just really not sure about them. I’m starting to get a little tired of the cutesy girl+boy singing overtop a heavy happy background. There’s too much of it going on right now… and the following are ones that I’m more into (in the same area or a little more closer to an alternative version): Green Go, Bicycles, Hexes & Ohs, Matt & Kim, Dog Day, Spiral Beach. Ghost is Dancing was fun, I bopped around, but they just didn’t do much more than that for me. They just didn’t seem 100% there.

I thought the Lovely Feathers did pretty well, they had great energy (enough that made them visibly exhausted in between songs, yet they still pushed through) and presented some great songs off of their new album. Brian, a critic friend of mine thought they did terribly, but I had fun. The set was a little too long for me, but it was overall not bad.

Overall, I went to a show knowing next to nothing about any of the bands playing and I had a good time. I would see Lovely Feathers again and I’ll definitely check out their music. However, I’m off to decide which boy+girl pop rock groups  I like the best….