Wow!  Last night Suzanne returned to Toronto for the first time in 11 years and played to a good-sized, warm and loving crowd at The Mod Club.  She looked terrific, sounded fantastic and the band were really great too! (Alison Cornell is a nice touch on keys, violin and backing vocals; she's great)  The whole band was fabulous.

The sound was terrific and Suzanne played a 95 minute set:  Here's what she played:

 

Tom's Diner (acapella version)

Marlena On The Wall

Ludlow Street

New York Is a Woman

Caramel

Frank And Ava

Gypsy

I'll Never Be Your Maggie May

Left Of Center

Blood Makes Noise

Bound

Zephyr And I

Pornographer's Dream

Some Journey

In Liverpool

Luka

Tom' Diner (full band version)

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Anniversary

Small Blue Thing

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Rosemary

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After the show, some of the fans hung out and got to meet Suzanne about 30 minutes later up at the end of the bar near the stage.

She was wonderful with us.  She signed lots of cool stuff (Will, who it was a real pleasure to meet, had some European versions of CD's with extra songs on them and a sealed CD in a long box of Days Of Open Hand which Suzanne signed for him).

It was a thrill and a pleasure to meet Suzanne (and to meet Will who is well known here and a wonderful guy; also Marco, who I took the streetcar home with while we chatted about Suzanne and the show, and some of the other fans who are a very nice, cool bunch of people)

A spendid time was had by all!

This goes down as one of my fave shows this year and to have it in an intimate setting like The Mod Club was the icing on the cake.

Thank you Suzanne for being so gracious with us after the show and for your wonderful performance.

Hat's off to the great band!

(Suzanne appeared only 8 hours later (!!) on our morning show in Toronto "Canada AM" where she performed "Frank And Ava".  If she was tired, you wouldn't have known it.  Great performance again!)

I was tired so the band had to be!

A terrific evening all around and a memory I'll cherish. 

Thanks again Suzanne!

(Nice to meet you Will!)

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers to johnny-999 for writing such a wonderful accounting of the night. That was just great.

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"The future has a brilliant future in it."

John:

You are the best!  (Please check your private messages, by the way).

I just got through e-mailing 10 pictures to the webmistress, so they should probably be going up somehow, somewhere, some time soon.

xoxoxox,

Will

You lucky guys! About last time this year I was there for a conference with my partner. I can tell you: I was hunting for things to do and it was a rainy 5 days with no results! Would have loved to have the privilege of: seeig SV, meeing Will, and John, too! Thanks for your notes/thoughts on the night, John!  Lucky Will, I have a DOOH 'long box' that I would like Suzanne to sign....so funny how things come in just cardboard now, isn't it? While they take up less room, they seem so 'eehh' in presentation, or is it just me? Glad you had a great time—and especially that you two got  to meet—there's really nothing like solidifying that bond, is there?  Love, Catherine**I'm using my laptop: beware...errors abound with me and this thing!

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"If we don't change the direction we are headed,
we will end up where we are going."

—Chinese Proverb