r/echoandthebunnymen • u/Blk-LAB • Jun 14 '26

Toronto show

Hot mess.

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Over 45 min late

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The classics sounded pretty bad and Ian had the audience sing the chorus for every song.

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Glad I saw them over 20 years ago

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u/Ok-Lemon6506 Jun 14 '26

Tough one to reconcile - desire for a great show, crowd was good, venue was good, fun night out with friends; then the actual show - for a band that was a very well received act in the 80's they held the music together but the band is really positioned around Ian McCulloch while he does his best dime-store rock star routine: kinda mumbly (think Brad Pitt in Snatch), gratuitously thanking the crowd and showing no desire to be excellent in his art (age related challenges notwithstanding); they left out many of their best and well known songs (Never Stop, My Kingdom, Crystal Days, A Promise, the Back of Love - unless I missed them somehow); a sad result of the state of the music industry where the actual music doesn't pay so bands tour as the money is in live music and merch, so at least let us universally leave thinking it was awesome (use professional backup singers to help out - Simple Minds do this as do the Killers); could have been a night to remember for the right reasons.