on wednesday my "summer" concert line up begins to make up for the lack of shows last summer. last year as a result of the continued sars feeling, the world thought there was people laying dead in the streets of toronto and so no band wanted to come to little ole township of ours. depends where you go but the odds of stepping on a sars related corpses is slim. drug and/or booze induced corpses are more probable but what urban centre doesn't go through that right? this year the bands feel guilty and came back to soothe my aural habit. and i am happy for that. still have my fingers crossed for pearl jam to announce dates so i can pack the gang into mommy's caravan and head out on the usual 5 city road trip. we're such groupies yo. here's the gig lineup as of tonight:

March 30th: Queens of the Stone Age*
April 8th & 9th: The Weakerthans
four sweeeeeet shows...smack in the middle of exams:
April 23rd: Hot Hot Heat
April 26th: Audioslave*
April 27 & 28th: The Arcade Fire
May 30th: The Killers
June 17th: Oasis
Sept. 12th, 14th, 16th or 18th: U2**

thus far, the concert tab is more than i'd liked to admit but too many decents acts have decided to swing their tour bus through these parts of the planet to pass up. now i know, if you live in the LA area, this kinda line up is short of a joke. you'd expect that lineup with a single week as according tony's weekly LA concert listings. but we've been deprived over the past two summers. it's high time to break that. god dammit, i sounded excited no?

*will probably have to suck mad scalpers' penis but will get in. by sucking dick, i mean, paying a lot more than i should. hence, it's almost as bad as sucking scalper penis. whatever, shut up, it's a good analogy.
**if by some miraculous chance i make millions over the summer and can afford to see u2, i will.