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Danko Jones at the Mod Club

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Danko Jones at the Mod Club in Toronto
November 21, 2012 – Danko Jones made a triumphant return to Toronto last Friday night and kicked ass for a capacity crowd at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club on Friday night that was packed to the rafters. It had been 20 months since Danko Jones’ last Toronto appearance and the crowd was making up for lost time, cheering and singing along throughout. While Toronto does support a thriving local music scene, it has rarely supported hard rock. But Toronto’s loss is Europe’s gain. Danko Jones is a huge act in Europe. They’ve just finished a European tour and earlier this month they played a festival in Dortmund Germany where Turbonegro opened for them.

Danko Jones
This excerpt from Stuart Berman’s new book “Too Much Trouble: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones” explains the situation pretty well.

Danko Jones’ aborted Universal mission is a tale as old as indie-rock itself. It’s just that their failed-major-label stint happened to play out at a time when Canadian indie rock, for the first time ever, was becoming an internationally recognized exemplar of hipster cool. The media-hype machinations that had immortalized the music scenes in Seattle, Austin and Chapel Hill during the ’80s and ’90s were now anointing Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver the new thriving epicentres of indie rock. Bands like Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire and the New Pornographers were forging a new Canadian musical aesthetic defined by multiheaded collectives, anthemic group choruses, orchestral grandeur, textural density and heart-on-sleeve emotionalism. It’s a community that Danko Jones once had ties to — Danko was once a roommate of and occasional musical collaborator with Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning — but, by the mid-2000s, the band’s riff-rock raunch could not have been more of out of step with prevailing Canadian indie-scene fashion.

Atom Willard
The trio is Danko Jones on guitar and vocals, with John Calabrese on bass and Atom Willard on drums. In September, Danko Jones released their 8th album, Rock and Roll is Black and Blue. It is definitively the band’s best album yet. It was produced by Jones and veteran producer Matt DeMatteo who’s worked on the last couple Danko Jones albums. As always the sexual innuendo is not far from the surface driven by hard power chords. The new album was well represented with four songs and opened and closed the show. The rest of the set included a mix of some the band’s biggest songs, including Bounce and Code of The Road.

Danko Jones
Set List
Terrified 
I Want You 
Forget My Name 
First Date 
Just A Beautiful Day 
Bounce Code Of The Road 
Full Of Regret 
Lovercall 
Conceited 
Cadillac 
I Believed In God 

Encore:

I Think Bad Thoughts Had Enough 
The Mountain


Review and photos by Steve Mallinson

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