Regular K

So, Teddy Geiger was really good in concert. I was cranky after waiting for two torturous hours in this sea of rude, annoying, pushy high school girls, but once he came on stage, it was all worth it.

The opening act was this local singer-songwriter, who just sang along with her guitar. She had a really nice voice, but her material was way over the heads of the audience. Both Miranda and I liked her music though. She ended up annoying me though, because she yelled out, “Teddy Geiger!” in between each and every song, just because she knew that all the Pavlovian teenage girls would scream at the mention of his name.

I think Teddy is a lot better-looking in person. But his nose looks a lot bigger in person too, so I guess it kinda evens out.

When I first listened to his CD, I wasn’t really all that impressed. The songs are pretty listenable, but I didn’t find anything particularly stand-out. But after listening to it a few more times, it grew on me. His first single, For You I Will (Confidence) (7.0MB, MP3) is SO cute. I love the lyric, because I can totally identify with it.

In concert, he was really surprisingly good. I never really cared for his title track, Underage Thinking, but that ended up being one of my favourite songs of the night. I think what made his performance so good was how he connected emotionally with the songs, since he wrote them all.

Also, triple encores are always nice! When he introduced his final song as “an angry song”, I thought he was joking because his music is fairly light pop/rock. But he surprised us with this non-album harder rock song, which was another of my favourites of the night. I really regret not bringing my camera!

Afterwards, Miranda and I went to some bar on Commercial to grab a bite while our ears rang from all the estrogen-induced screeching we had to endure.

And now, I’ve got some matrices to row-reduce and bases to orthogonalize.