Press conference announcing details around the Grey Cup Festival for this year:

 

 

23 hours ago, MOBomberFan said:

Me sitting here with tickets for a dozen rock concerts and comedy shows in 2025 and it's only March

My son dragged me to my first ever metal concert this week. Killswitch Engage I was already a fan of and they were amazing. The band that played before them I was not ready for, though! Fun time.

16 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

My son dragged me to my first ever metal concert this week. Killswitch Engage I was already a fan of and they were amazing. The band that played before them I was not ready for, though! Fun time.

Awesome, Killswitch goes back a ways, glad to hear they still put on a good show! Metal is one of my favorite kinds of shows to see live but it's a tough sell for my nonmetal social group. Deftones are playing the arena this year, looking forward to that. Gojira (France Olympic opening ceremony) is also coming to town (yay) but opening for KoRn (boo, one concert I actually left early it was so sad)

On 2025-03-22 at 1:07 PM, wbbfan said:

I miss the super dogs and even the cross fit thing they did once at a bomber game. I’d love to see some thing unique.  

Mascots vs. SSK Junior football teams lol

This would be unique...

 

Grey Cup week will be here before we know it.

 

 

On 2025-03-26 at 12:25 PM, MOBomberFan said:

Me sitting here with tickets for a dozen rock concerts and comedy shows in 2025 and it's only March

Ok yeah. Comedy making a return but rock? Like the acts are in rocking chairs right cuz certainly no new rock worth a lick. 

3 hours ago, Goalie said:

Ok yeah. Comedy making a return but rock? Like the acts are in rocking chairs right cuz certainly no new rock worth a lick. 

It's a matter of taste, not usually worth debating... still, I think you're right, not a single 'new' rock group that moves the needle at all for me right now. The last 'new' rock group I got excited about was Monster Truck and they peaked pre-COVID.

I really like some punk rock coming out nowadays, especially from overseas. Check out IDLES, Viagra Boys, Amyl and the Sniffers, big hitters in their scene that aren't yet household names, these could send you down a rabbit hole if you like grimy noisy fun-loving punk

Good rockers and metal acts from past decades haven't gone away. Deftones, Machine Head, In Flames among others all coming through town this year, Papa Roach and The Used were just announced (if you're into that, no judgments haha). That's off the top of my head. So many shows to choose from!

 

On 2025-05-01 at 1:12 PM, MOBomberFan said:

It's a matter of taste, not usually worth debating... still, I think you're right, not a single 'new' rock group that moves the needle at all for me right now. The last 'new' rock group I got excited about was Monster Truck and they peaked pre-COVID.

I really like some punk rock coming out nowadays, especially from overseas. Check out IDLES, Viagra Boys, Amyl and the Sniffers, big hitters in their scene that aren't yet household names, these could send you down a rabbit hole if you like grimy noisy fun-loving punk

Good rockers and metal acts from past decades haven't gone away. Deftones, Machine Head, In Flames among others all coming through town this year, Papa Roach and The Used were just announced (if you're into that, no judgments haha). That's off the top of my head. So many shows to choose from!

 

In a few years, most of the rock acts from the 60's & 70's will be gone. Then the Classic Rock era will end just like the big bands of the 30's & 40's did. My father had over 500, 78's in his collection. Bands like Glenn Miller, Spike Jones & The City Slickers, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como & Wilf Carter. I used to pull them out of his collection & listen to them when I was a teenager on my record player (in the days before my stereo system) as it had a 78 speed on it. While the music wasn't my style, I still appreciated & enjoyed listening to it.

Edited May 2, 2025May 2 by SpeedFlex27

2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

In a few years, most of the rock acts from the 60's & 70's will be gone. Then the Classic Rock era will end just like the big bands of the 30's & 40's did. My father had over 500, 78's in his collection. Bands like Glenn Miller, Spike Jones & The City Slickers, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como & Wilf Carter. I used to pull them out of his collection & listen to them when I was a teenager on my record player (in the days before my stereo system) as it had a 78 speed on it. While the music wasn't my style, I still appreciated & enjoyed listening to it.

Not all the 70s music, you know that Gene Simmons is developing cyborgs or holograms to perform as Kiss. 🤣

Still holding out for Inuit throat singers or a Gregorian chant choir. Would recommend a Buddhist singalong but.....

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

Still holding out for Inuit throat singers or a Gregorian chant choir. Would recommend a Buddhist singalong but.....

Fred Penner man. Who doesn't want to sing The Cat Came Back? 

44 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

Fred Penner man. Who doesn't want to sing The Cat Came Back? 

Honestly. It would be fun. All of Canada could sing it. 

2 hours ago, Tracker said:

Still holding out for Inuit throat singers 

It could work if someone were to rap over it... throat singing by itself may drive many people to throwing up.   I've heard it in person and while neat it did make several of the ladies run for the bathroom.  

3 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

Not all the 70s music, you know that Gene Simmons is developing cyborgs or holograms to perform as Kiss. 🤣

They had holograms ten years ago as the technology was just being developed. Paul McCartney performed a Beatles song with John Lennon. They also had Tupac onstage rapping his songs. Would you pay to see that? Would you buy tickets to see a hologram of Elvis perform his songs? Both my sons, especially my oldest were heavily into rap when they were teenagers. I used to hear all of the rappers from his bedroom on his stereo. I actually could rap some of Tupac's music myself much to my son's embarassment, ha, ha...

 

Edited May 3, 2025May 3 by SpeedFlex27

On 2025-05-02 at 6:18 PM, Tracker said:

Still holding out for Inuit throat singers or a Gregorian chant choir. Would recommend a Buddhist singalong but.....

That settles it. The HU should play halftime at GC.

On 2025-05-02 at 4:18 PM, Tracker said:

Still holding out for Inuit throat singers or a Gregorian chant choir. Would recommend a Buddhist singalong but.....

Or those Harmonica players who played the American National Anthem at the LA King Playoffs games said no one ever with good hearing.

Ooops sorry wrong thread. I'll head back to the Hockey discussions.

On 2025-03-21 at 6:39 PM, wbbfan said:

Really hope we get a big concert for half time that isn’t some country fried hick stuff. 

Brad Paisley announced as the GC show.  ☹️

My bad - he's playing the Friday night to kick off GC weekend.

Edited June 16, 2025Jun 16 by bigg jay

15 minutes ago, bigg jay said:

Brad Paisley announced as the GC show.  ☹️

thats the friday night kickoff concert...thanks god

Edited June 16, 2025Jun 16 by Booch

2 minutes ago, bigg jay said:

Brad Paisley announced as the GC show.  ☹️

My bad - he's playing the Friday night to kick off GC weekend.

 

1 minute ago, Booch said:

thats huts the friday night kickoff concert...thanks god

Dodged a bullet! lol. 

 

The trews were so good. I wish we'd go with some good canadian guitar drive rock, even if it isn't a huge draw. But that's personal preference. I still think some RnB, hiphop or rap would be the best draw. 

1 minute ago, Booch said:

thats huts the friday night kickoff concert...thanks god

Yeah caught that after I posted.  I know nothing about country but I've heard of him so big(?) name to kick help the weekend, even if it's not my cup of tea.

1 hour ago, bigg jay said:

Yeah caught that after I posted.  I know nothing about country but I've heard of him so big(?) name to kick help the weekend, even if it's not my cup of tea.

I'd kick myself in the plums if I could rather than listen to country

Edited June 16, 2025Jun 16 by Booch

Brad Paisley is awesome (his guitar playing alone is worth the admission...) and I'd almost guarantee that whoever they get for the half time show won't be anywhere near his level of "draw". It's honestly a huge get for the Friday night kickoff party... Can't wait to be there!

Edited June 16, 2025Jun 16 by Noeller

Wonder when they will announce the musical act.

2024 the Jonas Brothers were announced start of June. 

2023 Green Day was in September

2022 whatever it was that was in Saskatchewan didn't get announced until November.

1 hour ago, Noeller said:

Brad Paisley is awesome (his guitar playing alone is worth the admission...) and I'd almost guarantee that whoever they get for the half time show won't be anywhere near his level of "draw". It's honestly a huge "get" got the Friday night kickoff party... Can't wait to be there!

300 million plays on his most popular song on Spotify. He's a huge act. And Winnipeg loves their live country shows.

3 hours ago, Noeller said:

Brad Paisley is awesome (his guitar playing alone is worth the admission...) and I'd almost guarantee that whoever they get for the half time show won't be anywhere near his level of "draw". It's honestly a huge get for the Friday night kickoff party... Can't wait to be there!

If they couldn't get a bigger draw for half time, I think he'd be playing half time not the friday kick off. 

2 hours ago, Atomic said:

300 million plays on his most popular song on Spotify. He's a huge act. And Winnipeg loves their live country shows.

Winnipeg loves live music in general. I've seen rock and metal shows live here that make people in much larger cities jealous.