JAN 23: MARQUEE ROOM

ho-kay, so I went to the marquee room with my friend Emma last night to check out her friend's band, along with a few others. Firstlyyy, the MARQUEE ROOM (note: their website is dangerously under-updated) is an amazing spot, like a small little dive that's joint with an old-school movie theatre. Plus, I can proudly say that they do have calgary's best popcorn, as I was lucky enough to try some. So, with the bands: all of them were huuugely different but for some reason worked so well together. The first, Chris Gheran was greeeat. He's a little solo act, playing the acoustic, ukulele, and the organ, and his voice is amazing. It's a little folksy, jason-mraz-esque, and really catchy and lovable. Thenn there was Wayfarer, which was straight-up old-school rock and roll with some bluesy stuff happening (at least it sounded like it to me). Emma's friend's band was great, definitely folksy with a lot of other influences. Their songs were put together really well, great harmonies and all that jazz. We had to leave after that, but me and Emma managed to catch two songs from Matt Blais, and they were ahhh-mazing. SO bluesy, and they had great piano bits in their songs. Matt Blais' voice is also amazing, really soulful and super powerful. I wish I had a camera to show how great it was, but alas, I am sans-camera. :(

anyways.