We Are The Take & The Temper Trap

Isn't it fun when something unexpected happens?

Last week I wrote about not having found many new bands this year. You can read that post here if you missed it.

So I started listening to Absolute Radio UK and one of the bands that caught my attention was The Temper Trap. One of their songs is on their A-list which means it gets played a LOT.

On Sunday I spent some time downloading some of their songs and I was enjoying them.

Monday morning, I saw a post by a local band that we like saying they were playing The Horseshoe Tavern the next night. I started making plans to go, but they weren't concrete.

Seeing this post, I thought about signing up to get news from The Temper Trap (and other new bands and artists I was finding) and as I'm doing that I saw that they were playing The Horseshoe Tavern on the same night as We Are The Take....and the concert was free!! This blows my mind...how can a band from Australia and based in London (since May) who are on Absolute Radio's A-List of songs, come to Toronto as the 2nd band of a 4 band free evening then be on Jimmy Kimmel two nights later? (Check them out on Thursday night) Kudos to The Horseshoe for this one.

I was looking forward to a fun night of music, I knew I would enjoy We Are The Take again, but because I don't know The Temper Trap's music that well, I didn't expect to be blown away by them...but I was.

We Are The Take played some new songs and were as good as they were the last time we saw them...the bummer for me was that the batteries (that I had just charged) ran out on my camera so I only got one video :



We had the D-SLR for photos so got some good photos.






Another disappointment is that they didn't play one of my favourite songs, but I guess it's a good sign that they have a lot of material to choose from.

The funny thing I found is that the whole front row were photographers with D-SLRs (except for one who was a loyal fan or a friend of the band's). The Horseshoe is one of the few good venues that allow any type of camera so it's a great opportunity to catch some great shots without a photo pass.






After We Are The Take, my husband left to go buy batteries. How lucky for me because The Temper Trap were amazing and I managed to get some great video.





I look forward to seeing these two bands when they are headlining. It's like we have seen them from their early days and there can only be great days ahead for them.