Last week, Philadelphia’s Canadian Invasion played in the hometown’s legendary North Star Bar with New Jersey’s The Yarrows and Cut Off Your Hands all the way from New Zealand. The Yarrows got the show off to a slow start with their drugged out, mellow tunes.
After Canadian Invasion took the stage, the energy in the room increased tenfold, thanks to the band’s fun and poppy sound and front man Andy Canadian’s (guitar, vocals) fictional anecdotes, kicking off with recent release Three Cheers For The Invisible Hand’s first track, “Pop Magic Fantastical Masterpiece”. Chris Morita (guitar, vocals) then lent his vocals to a cover of Vampire Weekend’s “Mansard Roof”, which the band performed on local public radio station WXPN earlier the same week. Drummer George Groves rocked the skins as guitarist Eric Miller just shredded some wonderful classic rock influenced riffs.
After a delightful set from Canadian Invasion, the night’s headliners, Cut Off Your Hands, ripped through the North Star Bar with the energy of a tornado.
Canadian Invasion will be appearing on WPRB’s “Nocturnal Transmissions” on June 19th — tune in to 103.3 at 10PM to catch them in the act.
Set List:
Pop Magic Fantastical Masterpiece
Mansard (Vampire Weekend)
One Hand Claps the Other
Three Cheers for the Invisible Hand
Beast (new)
My Swashbuckling Days Are Over
Last Time I Went to Church
Standing on the Shoulders of the Carcass of John Mayer
Wave
Canadian Invasion: website | myspace
Sounds like I missed a good one, I couldn’t make it because my band was playing the same night. Nice pics Jess.
-tom