Sarah Harmer will have to wait until tomorrow night to find out if she's a Juno winner. Nelly Furtado made her major venue-headlining debut in T.O. last night at the Phoenix, a space that saw her opening for the band jacksoul a mere five months ago. It's pretty clear that the Barenaked Ladies are the kind of guys who shouldn't try to be like Eminem - which is exactly why they do it. Because it's funny. A chef who plays tambourine.
Stage puppets galore.
Mandatory band uniforms of blue-dotted shirts and blue pants. Culture-smart rappin' and jazzin' to Ottawa Valley place names. So maybe there is some logic to it after all. Icy weather and a rare Vancouver snowstorm greeted Coldplay's arrival Thursday for the Brit buzz band's first-ever gig on North American soil. His courage could not have come at a better time.