Right, I went to Quebec City for the weekend with my mom and sister and we went to see Paul McCartney on Les Plaines d'Abraham... 250,000 people, it was simply insane. The wait was not too bad as we did not get there super early. We thought that we would have to be at the back since we were not in the first ones to get there. We managed to get a "place" "close" to the stage, in the area that they called A: we could see the stage and the people on it and the giant screen that was installed on the left. Sure, they were really small on that huge stage, but even if I'm kinda small, I managed to see them.
The Stills opened the show, they were really great despite some sound problem. I really enjoyed their part; much better thant Pascale Picard, the girls who played right before McCartney. It might not help that I don't really love what she does.
I've never been a huge Beattles fan but, it seemed to be the once in a lifetime type of thing and my mom offered to go. I do not regret going! I was so glad to see him play songs such as Hey Jude, Let it be, Sgt. Peppers, Give Peace a Chance, Live and Let Die, Yesterday as those are the ones that I know quite well. People around us kept singing the whole time, those guys (in their fifties) seemed to enjoy the shoe quite a lot. It was funny to see people from different generations.
I'm sure that you've heard quite a lot abou the show in the news. For videos, YouTube it, you'll find a lot!
Oh and Saturday, we went to see the Image Mill, which is a forty minutes visual and audio production projected against the grain silos in the Port of Québec. The concrete structure becomes a narrator that tells the tale of Québec City's 400 years of history.
It consists in a sort of animated mosaic that, moving from engravings to paintings and from photos to videos, creates an impressionistic portrait of the city over time. The work consists of four movements corresponding to the city’s four centuries of history: waterways, the age of exploration and discovery; road building, clearing and developing the land; the railroad and industrial expansion; and finally, the age of air travel and the development of communications.
"from: monquebec2008.sympatico.msn.ca"
This was also pretty cool, different kind than the Pauln McCartney concert! But it was really great to see Québec's history being unfold on this giant screen; no words were needed to understand how things changed in 400 years, pictures and music was enough and it was quite powerful.
Anyways, this weekend is going to be less busy; might go to see the Fireworks on Saturday at LaRonde (nearby) and then we're going to New York City the first weekend of August... busy summer!
3 comments:
Wow, that's pretty amazing. I know my parents are visiting Quebec City next week and were bummed that they missed out on the concert by a few weeks. Great that you got a chance to see him live!
I'm not a huge Beatles fan either, and he is my least favourite one, but it certainly is a once in a lifetime chance, as you say.
The grain silo show sounds quite amazing, and I love how such unconventional places are used to tell a story.
Have fun in New York!
It was great to go there Allison, but there are so many things to do in Quebec City, they should have quite a lot of fun.
The grain silo show is really nice Barb, when I first saw the silos, I could not believe that they would actually be used as a screen
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