Icelandic Blues

Last night we took in the second of Kaleo's two Vancouver shows. Shauna bought tickets late last year right after the shows were announced. Nonetheless I was still pleasantly surprised to see how close to the stage were ended up. Row 7, although on the far right side.

However, I should have known it was too good to be true, because just as Kaleo hit the stage the usher appeared with a couple claiming we were in the wrong seats. Apparently we were (ours were 10 rows back) but these were the seats the usher had directed us to originally. No big deal. Our new seats offered an additional entertainment factor; a really drunk middle-aged couple that wouldn't stay still. They roamed/staggered up and down the aisle adjacent to us, they danced, they fist-punched the air and generally fought gravity to stay vertical on an obviously intoxicating mix of what I assume was alcohol. I wonder how much of the event they actually remember this morning.

The show itself was incredible. Kaleo is exactly the calibre of band you want to catch in a small venue at least once. I predict their next tour through Vancouver will be on a substantially larger scale.

It was starting to get a bit hazy in the auditorium before Kaleo
started their set.