Nick: Holy shit, I'm a judge. Now I'm terrified.
Best Band - Gotta be Pilot. There is simply no one else out there that is as good as us.
Best Album - So Are The Cougars - Pilot. You know you want to
Best Single - Sirens. It's goddam epic.
Best Band Member - Any of the boys, they're all great
Best Live Act - Pilot again I'm afraid. Hang on and we'll get you a link to a gig review.
Best Art - Pilot - Let The Lovers Come Together
Gig review from Oct 22 2009
Pilot promised to upgrade their stadium show and from the set alone they had delivered. Instead of the basic flat, rectangular stage they had gone with on every other tour, this time they had a stage with three runways and a raised level at the back so Stephen could be better seen. The giant screen above the stage dispayed a spinning hourglass as the crowd waited for the band to come onstage.
The band walked out to a shortened version of instrumental Come Upon New Times, in homeage to Oasis and their track Fucking In the Bushes. Without a word they kick into Bag Of Bones, the opener off their new album, designed to get the crowd going right from the outset. At the end of this song Nick got in a quick, "Hello Montreal" before the band kicked right into Sally Thirtysomething. To conclude this Nick led the crowd in a singalong, repeating the chorus in a mass acapella, with hands clapping. "Sally's on the town / but Sally's thirtysomething / with a kid who needs her round / but Sally's taken something / I guess he'll see her round / coz Sally's thirtysomething and she's better off alone / better off alone".
This was followed by Cash(ed Up) Cow, which the band have referred to as a sequel to Sally Thirtysomething. Nick was relishing the opportunity to have more of a stage to run around, exploring the runways and getting amongst the fans.
For Accelerate both Clint decided to climb up on top of something so the crowd could get a better view of the difficult guitar work the song requires. Clint was up on top of a stack of amps while Murray was atop Stephen's bass drum. Nick decided to illustrate the lyric "Accelerate" in the title by sprinting from one runway to another every time he sang it.
If You Want It was kicked off with a five-minute, improvised, jazzy-sounding jam with Nick repeating the line, "If you want it" in his best bluesy voice. At the end of the song Nick admitted to the crowd, "We wanted to be The Mars Volta again".
The "doo doo da doo" chorus to Cirque probved a drunken favourite singalong for the crowd in the bars, much like The Fratellis' Chelsea Dagger. and so, as a homeage to The Fratellis, Nick blended the final chorus of Cirque with the Chelsea Dagger chorus and the band played a short version.
Virtual Fantastic was accompanied by a laser show with dancing shapes of green and red painted in the sky.
Brothers & Sisters closed out the main set, as per usual. Clint dedicated the song to "all of us here tonight coz we're all beautiful."
Song To Fall In Love To opened the encore set. Giant red, heart-shaped balloons were launched into the crowd from high above the stage. As the crowd passed them around they exploded to release several slightly smaller balloons and so on until many tiny, multi-coloured, heart shaped balloons gently fell to the ground by the end of the song. Nick told the crowd at the end of the song, "that's a beautiful song. I'm looking to fall in love again." Space Cadet then kicked of, a fun, bouncy song in stark contrast to the attitude brought on by Nick's admission of loneliness.
Lightyears concluded the set, accompanied by another laser show, this one with several different coloured streams of light seemingly chasing each other through the sky. Nick concluded the show by telling the crowd, "Thankyou so much Montreal, we love you, have a great night."
Setlist
Come Upon New Times
Bag Of Bones
Sally Thirtysomething
Cash(ed Up) Cow
If You Remember
Neon
Part-Time Assassin
Can't Sit Still
Satellite
Accelerate
If You Want It
Dream Police
Cirque / Chelsea Dagger (The Fratellis Cover)
Caffeine Will Kill You
The Queen Of France
Amy
You, Sugar, Are Dynamite
Virtual Fantastic
Brothers & Sisters
Song To Fall In Love To
Space Cadet
Lightyears
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