Dwayne Gretzky threw a helluva costume party on Halloween night in Toronto. The vast majority of concert-goers were decked out from giraffes to zombie doctors to Cats in Hats and oh-so-much more. Regardless of dress people danced hard (and seemingly, to sober me anyhow, drank hard too) to Dwayne's beloved mix of oldies and semi-oldies covered live. Included in the oldies were
Chain Gang (
Sam Cooke)
, Let Me Roll It (
Wings),
Be My Baby (
Ronettes) and personal favourite
Pump It Up (
Costello), while relatively more recent releases were
Just a Girl (
No Doubt) and
No Diggity (
Blackstreet). The beauty of the band is that they cover a wide variety and have a lot of fun with it while maintaining the songs' integrity. Further diversifying the set were some themed songs including
Psycho Killer (
Talking Heads) and
Thriller (
MJ) to bookend the first set, and the inescapable
Monster Mash (by whoever.. one of the dumbest songs ever recorded according to
Elvis). With about seven on-stage members and a handful of guest vocalists they went all-out and partied all night long.
Nicholas Double You and the B Squad got to open the Halloween festivities. A fairly run-of-the-mill 5-piece indie rock band with a seemingly blindfolded female drummer they went through the motions of doing everything right but just couldn't translate. Even their guest female singer didn't pick it up much. At one point the crowd, who were there for a fun time, played along by all going down to a knee as requested, but there was no Pop to bring us up. The Halloween balloons popped some entertainment into the crowd momentarily too but overall they couldn't quite get it going.
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