Hey Rosetta being a tough act to follow, Library Voices brought the troops - all nine of 'em, including three females - and boy (and girl) did they fare well. So big were they, that the stage crew required a massive whiteboard diagram of the setup in order to assemble the stage.Fashion was a mishmash, including some lovely dresses and suits, though also some hipster fads. Regardless of dress, each of the members played their part well (as in their last Guelph show), showing passion in the form of a busted tambourine right off the top that was tossed and skittered across the stage in pieces.
Opening with a bunch of new songs from a forthcoming album (potentially dropping this fall) they worked up the masses assembled in the Island Tent before hitting us with numbers from the oh-too-short Hunting Ghosts EP such as Love In the Age of Absurdity with its rippin' guitar. Vonnegut's Grave had a couple of the females taking turns on the verses in the spirit of sharing. Though Kundera on the Dance Floor says 'don't go there' - they did - with members singing from the floor in the midst of the crowd. The final number was their breakout song Step Off the Map and Float that brought down the house as the sax was being tossed in the air and bashed off the stage, while the sweaty-wet (and tall!) bass player climbed onto the drumset.
A fantastic new tune with a fantastic new chorus sang "I saw the future escape from a crystal ball, it said the present is just an afterthought. Love is a forget-me-not, so I guess the past is all we've got." Well I've seen the future in this Regina group's crystal ball, and it promises success and longevity!
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