One of the Canada’s marquee alt rock bands Our Lady Peace are in the midst of their The Wonderful Future Tour. This is the extension of last year’s run and includes only nine cities. They are supported on this run by These People, an alt rock band from Long Beach, NY. The night before Valentines Day they came to New York City and the newly renovated Irving Plaza.
Written by Andris Jansons
While I didn’t catch the full set of These People, from what I saw and heard, they sounded a bit experimental, maybe a bit psychedelic rock. Their last song was concert goers exclusive, as bands vocalist stated that it is available only via QR code scan within the venue.
Our Lady Peace was formed back in 1992 and gained popularity in 2000 with their fourth studio album Spiritual Machines. They further cemented their place in alt rock music leaderboard with following album called Gravity, which opened OLP to larger audience outside alt rock scene. Bands vocalist Raine Maida is the lone founding member left with the band, though bassist Robert Duncan Coutts has been with the band since 1995 and taken part in all of the albums. They are joined with Steve Mazur on the guitar and Jason Pierce on drums.
Band’s performance was preceded by video intro form Artificial Intelligence being as the bands critically acclaimed release Spiritual Machines is followed last year by sequel Spiritual Machines 2, that continues to explore our future with technology advancements.
They started off with The Message off the new record and followed with One Man Army while Raine Maida enlisted help of megaphone. For the next song they went back to the first edition of Spiritual Machines with In Repair and as the crowd started to get excited OLP turned to Superman’s Dead.
See full Our Lady Peace performance photo gallery here.
The whole set which contained nineteen songs and spanned almost through all of the band’s discography went by in a breeze. Notables included Stop Making Stupid People Famous with Nadia from Pussy Riot singing from the TV screen on the stage, and All My Friends performed with bands co-founder Mike Turner playing guitar on the same TV screen (true pleasure for the bands longtime fans) which was followed by last song of the (regular) set Clumsy.
For the encore band performed The Beatles cover Tomorrow Never Knows and their early days megahits – Naveed, 4am and Starseed.
OLP still have one date left in New York before heading back to Canada to wrap up this tour.
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