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Concert review: Prince charming
Prince has been generous to Montreal over the past decade and-a-half — and he has been crafty: stunning fans with an improv-laden opening set before delivering the hits post-intermission in his 2001...
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Review: Rihanna's show more coronation than pop-music disruption
Although billed as the Anti World Tour, Night One of a pair of Rihanna shows at the Bell Centre did not rage against the conformist pop machine as much as our host had perhaps intended. In front of a...
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James Taylor offers comfort at the Bell Centre
For a while Friday night, there was no Trumpocalypse on the horizon. No political columnists warning you that ISIL will be in your living room in a couple of hours, before you have a chance to check...
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Concert review: Selena Gomez lets her guard down at Bell Centre
When a tightly choreographed arena pop show goes off script, it’s usually something regrettable: a confetti cannon gets jammed, a dancer passes out from food poisoning, a lighting rig collapses and...
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Concert review: Florence and the Machine — how big, how beautiful
You have to be an artist of unbridled confidence and charisma to do your encore three songs into your show. When Florence Welch dashed to the back of the Bell Centre’s floor on Wednesday to belt the...
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Concert review: The Cure has wild mood swings at the Bell Centre
There’s absolutely no faulting the generosity of the Cure’s three-hour Bell Centre marathon on Tuesday when it comes to the amount of music for the amount paid. (With premium tickets going for less...
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Concert review: Paul Simon plays an odd paradox
Somewhere between the unexpected funky organ solo in 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover and the Elvis pose struck by Paul Simon during a wonderfully spirited That Was Your Mother, it became obvious that one...
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Concert review: Kanye West lets audience shine at Bell Centre
For a guy tethered to a stage suspended in the air hovering atop a throng of devotees below, Kanye West surprisingly did what he could to not be the centre of Saint Pablo’s universe at the Bell Centre...
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Concert review: Drake and Future keep summer going at the Bell Centre
Under normal circumstances, bringing a tour called Summer Sixteen to Montreal in October would constitute a cruel joke. Instead, with our planet as overcooked as it is, chart-topping Canadian rapper...
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Concert review: Arcade Fire brings the hits to Kanpe Kanaval
They didn’t play any new songs, but they sure did bring it. Arcade Fire performed in Montreal for the first time since around this time last year, as the headlining act of Kanpe Kanaval, the fifth...
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