Orgy # 4 March 1, 2001 – Toronto, Ontario
After counting down the days, it was finally Thursday, and the Orgy weekend had begun. Adrienne came down during the day, and we waited around before going to pick Danielle up from class and head back home to NT. We picked up David and got our tix, and drove up to Toronto. It was an unusual experience, going across the border. The guard asked us why we were going to Toronto. David told him we were going to a concert. The guard asked who, and David said Orgy. After a strange look, he asked what kind of music to play. David came up with techno-metal. Good call. He shook his head, gave us another weird look and let us go.
We thought we were going to be later than we were, but doors were at 8, not 7 as we had thought, and we got there about quarter after 8 and had to wait in line in the cold snow and wind (since we were in the Great White North) for about half hour I guess. We found Carolyn easily, she had just gotten there too. Once inside we went to the bar area for the first bands. Carolyn, Adrienne and I stayed in the bar area because there was more room, and the floor looked really packed. I didn’t feel like fighting mean scary people to get up front. Danielle and David went into the crowd, and turns out people basically let them get to the barrier. Oh well, next time.
So when we got in, Tinfed was already playing. We thought they were Alien Ant Farm haha. They weren’t bad, but whatever. Alien Ant Farm came on after that, they were… entertaining. I spent most of their set staring at the balcony over the bar where various members of Orgy were watching the set. They played their “Smooth Criminal” Michael Jackson cover, which I thought was rad as hell, because I figured they wouldn’t play it. They asked the crowd if anyone liked Michael Jackson…Carolyn, Adrienne and I screamed haha, Danielle said she did too. They said they didn’t care if we didn’t like him, they were gonna play it anyway. It was cool.
Spineshank didn’t play that night, because they were finishing a video in California…no loss. Orgy didn’t go on until around 11, and played for about an hour. Set went something like this: vapor transmission intro, interlude, suckerface, dissention, chasing sirens, opticon, 107, fiction, gender, bobby drum solo (which sounds like Bjork’s “Army of Me”), stitches, where’s gerrold, blue monday… and another interlude thrown in there at some point. The show was great. Before Stitches, Jay asked the crowd if anyone had a bitch or asshole who they love and hate at the same time, when people screamed he said something like, you’re losers. I don’t really remember. At the end of the show, Jay said something about how we were the best fucking audience as always. They left the stage, and then Jay came back on and said something to the sound guy in back. Then he started talking to us, and told us that they were going to come out and do a few more songs, but the soundboard got fucked up and they couldn’t. He said something about how they’d be back with Papa Roach and to come see them again. Kinda pissed about no encore, because the other shows had no encores. Whatever. Danielle caught a towel which we thought was an unused one, but it turns out there’s makeup all over it.
We hung around for a few minutes inside, deciding what to do…leave or stay and wait around for them. We decided to leave, since by then it was after midnight and we had a 3-hour drive home. We left, got back to NT to drop off David, and drove back in a blizzard to Geneseo, got home at 4. We had another experience with the border guard, asking us who we saw, and more weird looks when we replied “orgy”. Ha ha. Anyway, we got back, and had to get up the next day at 7:30 for class… we’re good little students.
Observations from the show:
– Ryan is thoroughly entertaining. It was the first show that I got a good chance to watch him on stage. He is amusing as hell.
– I think that’s my only observation from that show.