Now for the 20th anniversary of the Juno's Nelly Furtado was picked to be the host in Saskatoon, the whole shindig started with Nelly Furtado flying in singing her song "I'm like a bird" in an attempt to get laughs... it wasn't funny. I should state now, that before the Juno awards I did not mind Nelly Furtado and thought her songs were extremely catchy but after the two hour spectacle of what was to be a night of music appreciation I can not stand her.
I'm going to talk about the performances first....The first performance was Billy Talent with their first single off of their second album, "devil in a midnight mass" which should have been great as this band rocks live. However
the tech guys could not get the mikes right so the music was very dimly heard over the screaming of the fans...the band was awsome but the sound wasn't equal. This was a huge disappointment! The next performance was "Sunday Morning" by 
K-OS and the tech guys had seemed to get a big better.. but the sound wasn't all that good, but the performance was pretty awsome. At the end K-OS grabbed a random guitar and smashed it. The next performance was the ever popular "Pain" sung by Three Days Grace 
which was really good. It started off acoustic then changed to the album version with a serious of light shows and fire. Plus the lead singer of three days grace was wearing a fedora, thus the perfomance was spectacular. The band and the vocals weren't equal but it was a lot better from Billy Talent's performance, the tech guys seemed to be getting better. The next performance was by Patrick Wilson singing "Lucious Life". I have only heard a bit of Patrick Wilson and overall I was impressed for those who are saying who is Patick Wilson... he sortof sounds similiar to Chris Martin (lead singer of Coldplay). It sounded great! The next performanc was The Tragically Hip with "You're not the Ocean" featuring Bob Rock, the performance sounded good and the music and vocals were equal. Well done tech guys they finally equalled up the sound levels an hour and a half into the two hour show, I am so glad that you didn't spend any time working on this before the show! Up next was a montague of Nelly Furtado's hits from her newest cd Loose which the vocals were extremely shaky and this had nothing to do with the tech guys. The next performance was pretty spectacular it was a mix of 
City and Colour's "I'm coming Home" and Alexisonfire's "This could be anywhere in the world"! THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THIS SHOW! It was half acousitc and half Alexisonfire! It was the best! As the performances had improved to this new state i was anticipating what would be next would be the best but instead i got Gregory Charles singing his "I think of you." I just plain don't like that song however it did sound pretty good live... Then finally Champion sang "No Heaven" to end the awful two hour sh
ow of the Juno's. I love Champion they are an awsome band and they sounded really good and that song no heaven is one of their best. Now for the televised awards....
Juno Fan Choice: Nelly Furtado
Group of the Year: Billy Talent
New artist of the Year: Tomi Swick
Single of the Year: Promiscious by Nelly Furtado ft. Timberland
Rock Album of the Year: Billy Talent 2, Billy Talent
R&B Album of the Year: MySoul, Jack Soul
Album of the Year: Loose, Nelly Furtado
A couple awards I would have liked to have seen but weren't televised:
New Group of the Year: Mobile (one of my favourite bands!)
Alternative Album of the Year: City and Colour
Video of the Year: Bridge to Nowhere, Sam Roberts
Intenational Album of the Year: Taking the long way home, Dixie Chicks
Nickelback's All the Right Reason was only nominated for one Juno.... Stabilo, not even nominated, Chemical City won for best video, Tommorow Starts Today passed over for the night before the Juno's we'll give out the awards. How can we have Promisicous as the single of the year in Canada when one of the performers isn't even Canadian.... there are so many better songs out there by Canadians that were not represented at the Juno's! 
Nelly Furtado had to introduce the band Three Days Grace after Rick Hansen came on stage to say a few words and she said this about him "I was always inspired by Rick Hansen...... but mainly it was because he was cute." Are you kidding me!? This is a guy who went across Canada in a wheelchair and the way Furtado was inspired by this was because he was cute! Well at least she had good things to say about Nickelback when they gave her the award for album of the year.... "Thanks to Nickelback because they are all hot." The highlights of the night were seeing Bob Rock become the newest member of the canadian music hall of fame, a few of the performances, MusiCan performance of a twelve year old playing American Women and the end.
The Bottom Line: I love Canadian music (metric, champion, mobile, K-OS, Billy Talent, Three Days Grace, Hedley and many others that weren't represented equally at the Juno's), Canada should invest in tech guys who know what they are doing, Nelly Furtado sucks and finally I don't agree with the main populace of Canada on the topic of music.
New Group of the Year: Mobile (one of my favourite bands!)
Alternative Album of the Year: City and Colour
Video of the Year: Bridge to Nowhere, Sam Roberts
Intenational Album of the Year: Taking the long way home, Dixie Chicks
Nickelback's All the Right Reason was only nominated for one Juno.... Stabilo, not even nominated, Chemical City won for best video, Tommorow Starts Today passed over for the night before the Juno's we'll give out the awards. How can we have Promisicous as the single of the year in Canada when one of the performers isn't even Canadian.... there are so many better songs out there by Canadians that were not represented at the Juno's! 
Nelly Furtado had to introduce the band Three Days Grace after Rick Hansen came on stage to say a few words and she said this about him "I was always inspired by Rick Hansen...... but mainly it was because he was cute." Are you kidding me!? This is a guy who went across Canada in a wheelchair and the way Furtado was inspired by this was because he was cute! Well at least she had good things to say about Nickelback when they gave her the award for album of the year.... "Thanks to Nickelback because they are all hot." The highlights of the night were seeing Bob Rock become the newest member of the canadian music hall of fame, a few of the performances, MusiCan performance of a twelve year old playing American Women and the end.The Bottom Line: I love Canadian music (metric, champion, mobile, K-OS, Billy Talent, Three Days Grace, Hedley and many others that weren't represented equally at the Juno's), Canada should invest in tech guys who know what they are doing, Nelly Furtado sucks and finally I don't agree with the main populace of Canada on the topic of music.
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Of all the articles about the Junos, I would have to say that yours was most complete. I didn't get to see it, but now I'm not upset anymore. I love your analysis of the tech guys. Those poor people don't get enough credit or criticism, but you are right, they can often make all the difference in a show. I'd say that the tech guys are almost as important as whether or not the singer is wearing a fedora. Also, I love K-OS, and was sad to hear he didn't win anything, but glad to hear he smashed a guitar.
Keep up the great work - I could see you working for a music magazine one day!
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