Wavelength

So the moment of truth is here. Here’s the Wavelength 500 line up (taking place Feb, 10-14):

Feb. 10, 2010 @ Music Gallery: Bruce Peninsula, Evening Hymns, Pony Da Look, Deep Dark United, Canaille

Feb. 11, 2010 @ Steamwhistle Brewery: Holy Fuck, Russian Futurists, Fembots, Diamond Rings, Professor Fingers

Feb. 12, 2010 @ Sneaky Dee’s: From Fiction, Bicycles, Laura Barrett, Magic Cheezies, Young Mother

Feb. 13, 2010 @ Polish Combatants Hall: Constantines, Rockets Red Glare, Donne Roberts, Picastro, Danger Bay

Feb. 14, 2010 @ The Garrison: Kids On TV, Barcelona Pavilion, Mean Red Spiders, Neck, Boars

Amazing or what! Tickets go on sale Jan. 7th. All shows will have advanced tickets except for Feb. 14th. That will be the usual PWYC rules.

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I’m sure it surprises no one now when I say I’m young (close friends and the occasional not-so-close friend are aware of my age; it’s not really a hidden secret of any sort, really) but the following little snippet I’m going to write is going to significantly magnify that fact.

You know when you’re young and you read of these magical events that happen that made you feel lame for sitting on your couch, watching a rerun of the Simpsons? To some, it was hearing about the latest couture at Paris Fashion Week, for others it was hearing the glory of the Olympics but for me, it was just hearing about this amazing little Toronto weekly music series called Wavelength. Albeit, I wasn’t really that young and it wasn’t even that long ago.

Every Sunday, I’d sit in my room listening to music, regretting the fact that I was one or all of the following:
a) Too far away from downtown Toronto (North Yorkers have it hard sometimes, y’know. I live downtown now though, hurrah!)
b) Underaged (I sympathize a lot with underaged  kids)
c) Occasionally poor (That’s an on-going problem in life…)

It may seem silly to idolize a series like Wavelength while others my age did the same with Fashion Week but hey, music is my life and when others gushed about Chanel and Prada I gushed about No Shame, The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern or again, Wavelength.

The first time I (finally) attended a Wavelength show was this year. To be more specific, it was only a handful of months ago. But immediately upon walking up the stairs at Sneaky Dee’s, I was hit with an assuring sense of familiarity and warmth; partially because of the handful of faces I recognized but also just the atmosphere of it all. Not to name the bands that played but 70% of the night’s bands were, not to be rude, but fairly bad but I still left happy and smiling. The friendliness of the Wavelength ‘scene’ and the close-knit bunch of people who run it give me an instant feeling of an old friendship that only grew more loving as the years passed.

It is unfortunate that I only began attending these shows in its last months but at least I got to experience a bit of the magic. Wavelength, I hardly knew you but you were a pleasure to live through, vicariously. WL 500 will be my way to try and catch up on some history. Can’t wait! You will be missed!

xoxo