Purple take Toronto by storm

First off, this was absolutely the best gig of the current tour I've seen so far. The support, a local guy, was decent for a change and when the band came on at 2245 the big surprise: Hush. Then the setlist as usual: Fireball, Ted, PoH, Black Night, Cascades (Steve Solo), SIFLS, WFT, Aviator, Rosa, No One came, SotW (Jon Solo), WaBMC, Speed King (IanP solo). Encores were Perfect Strangers, Cisco, HS.

There were a few very minor glitches but otherwise everyone was on form, the band working very tightly, the Warehouse was more than sold out and I got to meet a whole bunch of people (Glen, John, Carl, Nick, Lucio, Jim) and most of them in turn got to meet the band afterwards. Even getting a drumskin signed in Jim "a rudiment for every day of the year" Corrigan's case.

The wierdest thing was that a couple of people recognised me from my pic on the WWW. I have a dozen or so pictures that'll be up on the WWW as soon as I get back to London.

Next stop (for me anyway!): Hartford.

Dave Hodgkinson

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