{"id":1308,"date":"2009-08-12T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2015-10-15T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:43:28","slug":"our-lady-peace-w-electric-touch-house-of-blues-houston-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/12\/our-lady-peace-w-electric-touch-house-of-blues-houston-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady Peace w\/ Electric Touch – House of Blues – Houston, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Written by Abel Carmona <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 12, 2009 at 08:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Image\"Our friends from the north, Our Lady Peace made a stop in Houston this week, it’d been many years since the groups last show in town.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s attention but in the end all they got was a few blank stares.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Our Lady Peace opened things up with one of many new songs we would hear on this night.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cSuperman\u2019s Dead,\u201d one of their bigger singles and a personal favorite of mine as well. That\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Front man Raine Maida then spoke to the audience saying they were going to play 4 new songs from their new album \u2018Burn Burn\u2019 and as I said before when bands play new songs it\u2019s always hit and miss. Most had a good sound to them but nothing that really grabbed my attention. Guess it\u2019ll take a few spins of the new record to get a better feel for the album.\u00a0 Once finishing the new songs Maida joked saying \u201cOk, now we\u2019re going play what you came for\u201d.<\/p>\n

From then on it was like a greatest hits album playing tracks from their \u201cNaveed\u201d, \u201cClumsy\u201d, \u201cHappiness\u201d and \u201cGravity\u201d 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 \u201cClumsy\u201d or \u201cStarseed\u201d two of their biggest hits to date. It really took me back to hear the song \u201c4am,\u201d a song I have always loved for my own personal reasons as I\u2019m sure it hits a lot of people the same way. It\u2019s a song about losing touch with things and people but in the end making sure they knew you loved them.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I think when Rod Ryan intro the band he said it best \u201cOur 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\u2019t know the band they know the songs\u201d. He was very right about that there\u2019s 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\u2026”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Abel Carmona Aug 12, 2009 at 08:00 PM Our friends from the north, Our Lady Peace made a stop in Houston this week, it’d been many years since the groups last show in town. The night started off with a band called “Electric Touch,” who ended up being some background noise as most… <\/p>\n

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