The Tea Party
Support: the Road Heavy
Date: Saturday March 4th, 2017
Venue: the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, Ontario
T-shirt worn: Gas Chamber "Mosaic of Stuff"

I didn't even know there was an opening act until the day before the show. So I missed the Road Heavy, whoever the fuck they are.

The Tea Party were the first live band I ever saw, way back in 1995 at the Oshawa Civic Center. I didn't know they were playing their 1997 album 'Transmission' in full this tour (as a part of its twentieth anniversary) until a few weeks ago. I was fine with that even though I was never as big a fan of that album. My first girlfriend back in high school was a huge Tea Party fan and that album came out when we were dating so I heard it enough times. But I haven't heard some of these songs in almost twenty years. The singles are all great songs (Temptation, Babylon, Psychopomp) and the faster songs worked well live too but there were definitely a few crowd killers in there. It was a shitty, shitty crowd too. There was a lot of talking over the lesser songs. In a way I can't blame them. By the time intermission hit I wanted to hear some "other songs" too. Thankfully after the intermission they did just that and it was pretty awesome. I was glad I went but a greatest hits show would've been so much better than Transmission+. They have a lot of great songs that I know they’d play otherwise that didn’t get played tonight.

The Tea Party
1. Army Ants
2. Babylon
3. Psychopomp
4. Gyroscope
5. Emerald
6. Alarum
7. Release
8. Transmission
-. [Embryo]
9. Pulse
10. Aftermath
11. Temptation
[Intermission]
12. The River
13. Fire in the Head
14. The Ocean at the End
15. The Messenger
16. Save Me
[encore]
17. Sun Going Down/Winter Solstice medley
18. Sister Awake w/Paint it Black and Heroes