![]() Watch the twins' interview with Seth Meyers and their performance of "Yellow" below. ![]() Tegan and Sara's tenth album Crybaby will arrive on October 21 via Mom + Pop. The sisters also talked about wanting separate identities growing up, and gave sneak peeks into their upcoming graphic novel Junior High - which serves as a prequel to both the book and TV adaptations of High School. She sent me her TikTok, and said 'I mean, these girls could play us on our show, and from that moment forward we were really advocating for them." "And Tegan sent me Railey who actually plays Tegan on the show. "We were talking a lot about twins in front of our cell phones … and we had not yet begun the casting process but we were talking about twins a lot," said Sara Quin. Right before their new series High School premieres at TIFF, the sisters made an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers to chat about the show and their upcoming graphic novel, and even carved out some time to do a little bit of singing.īefore performing "Yellow," the lead single of their upcoming album Crybaby, the twins opened up about casting TikTokkers Railey and Seazynn Gilliland to star in High School, calling them a gift from the algorithm. In terms of spectacle, Roxy Music didn’t disappoint, although it would have been nice if they had been rewarded with a fully attended venue, as there were noticeable pockets of empty seats strewn throughout the arena.It's not news to anyone that Tegan and Sara have their hands full as of late, even without a baby in the latter's arms. 24 - first brought Roxy Music to a sold-out Massey Hall and that the outfit has given us some magnificent music over the past half-century was the double impetus behind the celebration. ![]() The fact that it’s been 48 years since local promoter Martin Onrot - who died on Aug. Perhaps this was a first night mistake, but if it wasn’t, it’s visually disruptive to the full enjoyment of the show.Īs the band paraded truncated favourites like “Love Is The Drug,” “Dance Away” and “Do The Strand,” to their fans, Ferry - who took turns singing both in front of a mic and sitting behind his Wurlitzer electric piano - seemed to relax with each enthusiastic response from the faithful, both parties aware that this was a historic victory lap from one of pop music’s more influential voices. There was also no shortage of stellar musicianship from the 11-piece band that included charter Roxy members Phil Manzanera on guitar, Andy Mackay on soprano and alto saxes and Paul Thompson on drums, a couple of keyboardists, a percussionist, an additional guitarist, an additional saxophonist, reputed New York session musician Neil Jason on bass, and a male/female vocal tandem that included veteran Roxy cohort Fonzi Thornton.įrom my section 101 vantage point at the back of the arena, the most distracting aspect was that one of the screens was off-kilter with the others, giving distorted views of band members to the point where Paul Thompson’s scalp seemed to be separated from the rest of his torso, depending on the camera angle. ![]() It wasn’t so apparent with the first couple of numbers, as Roxy came blasting out of the gates with “Remake/Remodel” - the introductory track on the band’s self-titled 1972 debut and the alluring “Out Of The Blue” from 1974’s “Country Life,” as the audience’s senses were overloaded with career-summarizing video projection for the former song and a psychedelic brew for the latter. In addition to offering the largest selection of concert and theater tickets online, we specialize in Grand Slam tennis events, golf. Unfortunately, that band member happened to be 76-years-young Bryan Ferry, the group’s charismatic, debonair singer and chief songwriter, whose vocal range and power have - perhaps not unexpectedly - diminished with age. As Roxy Music kicked off its 50th Anniversary 13-date world tour at Scotiabank Arena on Wednesday night, it didn’t take too long for the crowd to discover that the ravages of time had caught up with at least one member of the iconic British art rock band.
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