Mar 2, 2011

The Sound of Urchin

I think one of the best music memories I have is from 2000-2001. I went to see Tenacious D at the ‘Kool Haus’, in Toronto. The opening band was ‘The Sound of Urchin’. I heard about this band in the #Ween forums. Typically, if you liked Ween, you liked The Sound of Urchin. I looked them up on the Internet and watched their live sets (videos) before the concert to check out if they were any good; they were awesome.

Finally the day of the concert came. Tenacious D was hilarious, imagine that. The Sound of Urchin took centre stage and played their energetic set with all their heart and soul; it was fan-flippping-tastic!

After the show, my friend Ashley and I headed out the side entrance. We bumped into the singer/drummer of the Sound of Urchin. ‘Awesome Kiss T-shirt!’ he commented to Ashley. Immediately, he pointed to his shirt; he was wearing a Kiss T-shirt too. We shared a laugh and then he asked us if we wanted to join their band’s mailing list. We said “Sure!” he handed us a pen and paper and we wrote our names and email addresses down on this piece of paper.

Soon, I was receiving e-mails from the band with their updates, photos, videos and contests. I entered one of their e-mail contests and lost. BUT, they e-mailed me back and asked for my mailing address. I gave them my dorm address, thinking... meh; it’s just my dorm address and forgot about it. A few weeks later a package arrived for me at the front desk of my dorm. I LOVE packages! Quickly, I opened it like it was a million dollar cheque. Inside the package were two CDs. One CD was all ghetto in a plain paper sleeve with ‘Toronto Concert’ written on it in black permanent marker. The other CD was a sampler with one song by The Sound of Urchin.

I couldn’t believe it! The band mailed me a copy of the concert I saw them at earlier in the year. The Sound of Urchin boys took the time to burn and mail me a copy of the concert at their own expense. What a great Rock’n Roll memory!

By: Michelle Françoise

9 comments:

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  2. that's cool! i love getting packages in the mail. funny how something so simple can feel so meaningful for the recipient.

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  3. WOW! Cool, that is what you call being loyal to your fans! great post michelle!

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  4. Tenacious D were so much fun live :)
    Thanks for submitting your story! Love you, you saucy bitch! Michelle is a personal friend of mine; we went to college together and we often think we were separated at birth - except for the fact that she's part French, but nobody's perfect. LOL. xx

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  5. Super jealous here. I'd love to see Tenacious D!

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  6. Lady Estrogen,
    We may have been separated at birth... luckily, I was the favourite and they kept me. ;)

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  7. very, very cool. right now I'm obsessed with a band called Fitz and the Tantrums. I'm determined to see them live the next time they are in the NYC area.

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  8. That is so cool that they send you that package! I have never heard of Ween but love Tenacious D. Never seen them live tho. Thank you for sharing this great memory with us!

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