[ATTENDED: September 6, 2018] The Temperance Movement
I love that this band named themselves The Temperance Movement.
I looked them up before the show and got the gyst of their music: a British blues rock band formed in 2011.
It seemed like they might sound a lot like the band that opened for Judas Priest the last time I saw them. I wasn’t all that interested in them because I assumed it would be very loud and sound very bad (the opening bands are never hooked up to the sound system correctly and they always sound ear-piercing). Plus they were going on at 7PM, so I just assumed I’d never make it there in time to see them.
Well traffic was light and it turned out they started playing more or less as I arrived at the arena.
I could hear them and they sounded good–they sounded even better as I got closer to the seating area. But I knew that Judas Priest wasn’t slated to go on until 8, and these guys were supposed to be done by 7:30. So after I got situated and got a drink, it was already 7:15. No point in heading down in there for 15 minutes.
Then someone in the band busted out a harmonica which was really loud and I know would have been rather piercing in the seated area.
So I hung out in the food area, ate my hot dog and watched as people got Don Jamieson’s autograph.
When I got to my seat a guys behind me was raving about The Temperance Movement saying how great they were and that he was going the next night to see them in a club in New York. I imagine they would be very good in a club Inf fact, I listened to them on Spotify and they were quite good.
I just wasn’t prepared for them at a live venue. I never even saw what they looked like.
But Wikipedia tells me about this pedigree: Collectively the band have a rich history of experience, having previously played with Rooster, Ben’s Brother, Jamiroquai (!), Ray Davies, The Waterboys and Feeder.
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