But when it's a seated theatre and the audience can't really move and can't really do too much, it can be almost fake to do what you would normally do. “When the crowd is bonkers, the band is bonkers. “Japandroids are a classic rock band in the sense that you feed off the crowds,” guitarist Brian King says.
It’s a snapshot of a band whose aspirations have broadened with each release. Originally recorded by the venue as part of a concert film series, Massey F*****g Hall finds the duo in mid-tour form-behind that year’s Near to the Wild Heart of Life-contending with a room that asks its audience to sit rather than stage-dive. That it’s not the sort of place you’d expect to find Japandroids is part of the magic of the Vancouver outfit’s first live LP. You know?”Ĭanada’s most iconic theatre, Massey Hall is both historic landmark and national treasure-the site of legendary sets by Neil Young, Glenn Gould, Gordon Lightfoot and Bob Dylan with The Band.
Imagine trying to tell yourself 10 years ago that this band that you're in-that’s playing to, like, 50 people at crappy little DIY spaces and punk clubs in Vancouver-is going to play a show at Massey Hall. “I sat there by myself and let it sink in.
“I just wanted to go back on that stage again,” he tells Apple Music. In the hours following Japandroids’ set at Toronto’s Massey Hall in October 2017, drummer David Prowse quietly slipped away from his friends and family at the after-party in the theatre’s downstairs bar.
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