better left unsaid

One of my all-time favourite bands is the Sky­dig­gers. Since they hit the scene in the late eight­ies when I was in high school, their music has been with me wher­ever I’ve gone. Dri­ving across this crazy wide coun­try — twice!! — with­out the Sky­dig­gers would have been like sushi with­out the chop­sticks. Luck­ily for me, while I was in high school and then col­lege see­ing them play live didn’t require multi-province road trips or a trip to the travel agent. It usu­ally only meant dri­ving or tak­ing the sub­way down to Queen Street West in Toronto, home of the Horse­shoe Tav­ern. Once I left south­ern Ontario though, it was dif­fi­cult, if not impos­si­ble, to ever see the Sky­dig­gers live.

After liv­ing in north­ern BC for ten years I had pretty much given up hope of ever see­ing them live again. It wasn’t going to hap­pen up there. But then I moved to a much larger city on the east coast, with more access to live music, and the faint glim­mer of hope became a lit­tle brighter. Well, the live music gods have obvi­ously decided to reward me and oth­ers like me here with a two-night acoustic duo per­for­mance by Andy and Josh. Oh happy days!

Not only did I get to see and hear them play, I also got over my fear of mak­ing an ass of myself and actu­ally said hello. I gushed a tiny lit­tle bit when I thanked them for mak­ing their way out here, but I think Andy has seen that before, he was very gra­cious. A few songs into their set I thought I’d put the video capa­bilites of my fancy iPhone to the test and record a song. Turned out not too bad.

From City of Sirens, here’s a live acoustic per­for­mance of Hello Beau­ti­ful Life:

Thanks again to Andy and Josh for bring­ing their gui­tar, trum­pet, voices and micro­phones out here and show­ing me that even after all this time you haven’t missed a beat. Come back soon!

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