If you ask me, sitting down at concerts is for old people. Sometimes you do get tired of standing and feel like taking a seat for a spell, which is perfectly understandable. On the other hand, what isn’t perfectly understandable is eating a whole meal while sitting and watching a concert. I suppose that a place called Club Café lends itself to that sort of behavior though (notice how it has both the word club, used here as the dancing and/or music type, and café in its name) maybe it shouldn’t seem so odd. Pair that with a band called
Enter The Haggis and the whole picture starts to look a little more normal. At least until the show’s beginning nears and you, the table-sitting-probably-old-person, are surrounded by all the folks who didn’t arrive in time for the early bird, seat-taking special. Dinner theater this is not. But I digress, there’s an actual concert to talk about here. And once you adjusted to the different atmosphere chances are you found the show quite enjoyable.
country/folk vibe of their own on some songs – especially "The Ghosts of Calico," a jam band sound on others and by most descriptions they are a Celtic rock band from Canada. Hearing that one might be turned off because the first thing they think of is that Dropkick Murphy’s band that everyone pretends to like around St. Patrick’s Day. The key difference between the two is that ETH is not quite as hard, stupid or overrated. In fact, it can be said that they are very much underrated, although based on the vehement support of their diehard fans that might be hard to quantify. These fans were whooping and clapping (politely so from the table-sitters) at the conclusion of each song, most notably “The Death of Johnny Mooring” from their 2009 album 'Gutter Anthems' on which many fans could be seen singing along. It was, however, the songs without words (which by definition I suppose are not technically “songs”) such as “Twirling Towards Freedom” that stole the show. The aforementioned song in particular featured much of the musical styles mentioned earlier all in one. There were Celtic-sounding scales played on the keyboard, a fiddle and some distorted guitar soloing all backed by a pounding drum line. The part of all this, though, was band member Craig Downie who at times was playing bagpipes (known to be one of the more challenging instruments to play), a flute-type thing of some sort and a harmonica. The range he showed was a microcosm for the talents of the band as a whole.
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