Blood and Glass was first up. Fronted by Moffatt's backup singer, Lisa Iwanycki, this duo could be labeled electro gaze. The bassist spent his time fiddling with an array of pedals, synth machines, and drum samplers, hooked up to his bass which was used to generate most of the sound. Meanwhile, the keyboardist/singer often ran her voice through a vocoder hooked up to her synth. It was sparse, airy music about botoxed young girls and odd merry-go-rounds. The most radio-friendly song was the dance beat of Bad Dreams.
The Magic, from Guelph, played catchy 70s style funk full of falsettos and staccato guitar licks. Without the full band, the two brothers relied on drum machines and samplers to fill out the songs. This set-up emphasized their rockability; in their formal suits and retro-gear, they looked like young Elvis or Jerry Lee Lewis, if these icons started their career in the cool 70s.
A veteran singer from Quebec (tonight's show was filmed by the French TV station TVA for a TV spot), Moffatt was comfortable talking and joking to both the French and English-speaking fans in the crowd. Her style was dance rock/pop, epitomized by her bassist's "key bass", an electric bass guitar with a small synth attached to the bottom. It was energetic hand-clapping music, which the raucous audience was more than willing to do throughout the show. Her bilingualism extended to the songs from her new album "Ma". For every Walls Of The World and Too Late, there was Mon corps and L'homme dans l'automobile. She did a lively cover of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill. But Moffat also included numerous hits from her French catalogue such as Le coeur dans la tête, Réverbère (which she joked was called River Beer in English), Dans un océan, and for the encore, a reggae-inflected Montreal.
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