Pirate Heart Snagged

I went and saw Coeur de Pirate at Livecity Yaletown yesterday, February 20th, 2010.
I've been waiting to see her live for months, ever since I discovered her music. I waited front row center for what seemed like an eternity, realistically I was squashed between The Sam Roberts Band fans and The Arkells fans. I however am NOT a frequent listener of either of them.
But I endured the body heat of body odour sweat, marijuana smelling and alcohol induced crowd.
6 hours of being still in anxious anticipation for Beatrice Martin to finally grace the stage.
I felt a little embarrassed of the crowd when Beatrice took stage.
WHOSE idea was it to put her in-between two "indie rock bands" that cater to the typical bearded mid-20's male?
Shame shame. Regardless of the assholes who threw their bottles on stage and shouted rude obscenities at her.
She held her own with her melodic songs. I am hoping that Coeur de Pirate will eventually come back to Vancouver to play a proper show in a venue. Maybe the Vogue Theatre?
Here's great francophone pop music. Really this is me just wishing I lived in Montreal, Quebec.

The 7 hours of wait, the frozen toes, needle-pinned legs, the accumulation of bad odours, the obnoxious male counterparts... All was capped off perfectly with Coeur de Pirate.
Left afterwards. Enough shenanigans for one night.

What To Listen For in 2010

2010 will be full of great new concerts and shows. I'll be catching a few of them in the New Year!

Tegan and Sara w/ An Horse & Astronautilis - January 5th & 6th
@ The Orpheum Theatre






Phoenix w/ YSP!WSD! - January 22nd
@ The Orpheum Theatre





City and Colour w/ The Rural Alberta Advantage - February 15th
@ The Orpheum Theatre





And since February will be full of free outdoor shows for the 2010 Winter Olympics, I'm sure I'll catch a few shows:
Excited to see:

Coeur de Pirate - February 20th & 21st
@ Livecity Yaletown Stage
@ Maison Du Quebec

Malajube - February 12th
@ Performance Works: Granville Island

Wintersleep - February 27th
@ The Surrey Celebration Stage - Holland Park, Surrey

Alexisonfire - Sometime in February

Check Here for shows in Surrey
Check Here for shows in Vancouver & Also Here
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Also all of these bands have new albums coming out in 2010, so keep your ears out for them!

Arcade Fire
Spoon
MGMT
Vampire Weekend
Sufjan Stevens
Kaki King
Fences
Yeasayer
The National
Mgmt
Arcade Fire
Broken Social Scene
Cat power
Stars
The New Pornographers
Against Me!
Los Campesinos!
Uh Huh Her