July 2nd, 2009 by Emily Groundwater
/ Photos by Aretha Munro
On Tuesday afternoon I received a call from Ron asking if I could review a show that night at The Commodore. With my evening free and an incapability to say no to new music I gave my photographer Aretha a call and headed downtown, not knowing what to expect. Now I like to think that I am open to all genres of music, and fairly well-versed in most of them, but that evening I realized I have a lot to explore – something that will hopefully never change. Headlining the show was the hard rock, alt-metal band Shinedown hailing from Jacksonville, Florida. Opening for Shinedown was Vancouver-based rock ensemble Incura. With the exception of Metallica’s Black Album and my guilty pleasure that is My Chemical Romance, I don’t often immerse myself in the metal side of rock music. As such, I’m afraid I couldn’t give a proper review of Incura and Shinedown’s musical merit, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try. What I want to talk about most, however, was their showmanship, and the way the crowd responded to their performance…and was it a performance.
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