Great Show - Middling Venue
by Post-Fame Prufrock on 2024-09-23The Theatre at Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto - TorontoRating: 5 out of 5Frank rules. Holy hell does that guy know how to put on a rock show. I can't think of anyone else who could hold an audience in the palm of their hand for nearly two hours every night for four straight nights, he is a master at his craft and if you so much as lightly enjoy his music he's worth seeing live.
The Theater at the Great Canadian resort is kind of weird. It's obviously a very new state of the art theater, but also kind of feels like it's being run like my high school tech crew is in charge.
The most obvious is that there were significant sound issues on night two which led to the show nearly being cancelled and Northcote (who rocks) set being very hard to hear.
But apart from that there were other things; the floor in there I actually think might be made of granite? It's so hard, I'm amazed no one was hurt crowd surfing. Also, they used more fog for the lights than I've ever seen at a venue. You could smell it everywhere in the room. Finally, forcing everyone back out through the main doors was silly, there are exit door all along the hallway outside the room, open those up for those who want to use them.