by Ryan Gaio
I end the night with the TransCanada Highwaymen, a new Canadian supergroup—a Traveling Wilburys of the Great White North, if you will. Its members consist of the Barenaked Ladies’ Stephen Page; Chris Murphy of Sloan; Odds’ very own Craig Northey and Moe Berg from The Pursuit of Happiness. They each play hits they had written for their respective bands, but the songs are reimagined, reinterpreted, reshuffled and reborn (just as I have been). The set is somewhat sloppy, but in the best way; it feels unpredictable and it feels now. They look like teenagers in a garage band who hardly know their parts—but it doesn’t matter, they have heart; they look like they’re once again having fun playing songs they’d gotten sick of strumming. They even launch into silly, spontaneous singalongs—at one point, somehow, the “Na na na na”s from “Hey Jude” become “Na na na na, Jaaaaaaaz Blueeeees.” Soon, everyone under the tent is singing it. I watch Stephen Page lead the band through “The Old Apartment,” and remember that that same song opened the show at the first concert I ever went to. Now, here I am, all these years later, seeing him sing that same song, and I’m writing about it!. Funny how these things turn out, isn’t it? Moe Berg takes lead vocals on the set-ending “I’m An Adult Now;” if this is what being an adult means, I’m okay with it.
--taken from: The Brunswickan (read more here)
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