The night started off with a band called “Electric Touch,” who ended up being some background noise as most people paid no attention to them. It wasn’t for a lack of trying though, the groups front man tried and tried to capture the crowd’s attention but in the end all they got was a few blank stares.

After their set, 94.5 the Buzz DJ Ron Ryan came out to intro Our Lady Peace, as he did the place just blew up. Every time I’m at the House of Blues I always forget about there being seating above the floor area, with its low ceilings it always gives a somewhat small club feel to it, until you hear people screaming and yelling and look up and see a full house sitting above you.  Our Lady Peace opened things up with one of many new songs we would hear on this night.

Playing a new song as an opener always seems somewhat risky to me, I guess you go out there hoping enough people have listened to the new songs to get some kind of reaction from them. Afterwards, they played “Superman’s Dead,” one of their bigger singles and a personal favorite of mine as well. That’s when fans started to get more in to it, you started hearing more and more people singing along. They hit a few songs from previous albums, some lesser know than others, but all getting great response from the fans.

Front man Raine Maida then spoke to the audience saying they were going to play 4 new songs from their new album ‘Burn Burn’ and as I said before when bands play new songs it’s always hit and miss. Most had a good sound to them but nothing that really grabbed my attention. Guess it’ll take a few spins of the new record to get a better feel for the album.  Once finishing the new songs Maida joked saying “Ok, now we’re going play what you came for”.

From then on it was like a greatest hits album playing tracks from their “Naveed”, “Clumsy”, “Happiness” and “Gravity” albums. Every song had fans singing chorus lines but one song in particular really set the night. Knowing they would most likely end the night with either the song “Clumsy” or “Starseed” two of their biggest hits to date. It really took me back to hear the song “4am,” a song I have always loved for my own personal reasons as I’m sure it hits a lot of people the same way. It’s a song about losing touch with things and people but in the end making sure they knew you loved them.

During that song what seemed like the entire place sang along, Maida sang the first verse maybe, from then on the crowd sounded like a church choir. Maida would come in and out hitting parts of the chorus and finishing out the song, but during the time just watching and hearing the crowd was a very surreal feeling and one that made the night for me.

I think when Rod Ryan intro the band he said it best “Our Lady Peace is just one of those bands they were never huge but they put out great songs that still to this day are in my playlist of music that even if people don’t know the band they know the songs”. He was very right about that there’s been plenty of times that I been listening to an Our Lady Peace album and somebody will say “Oh I have always liked that song, who is that…”