Glass Tiger At Théâtre Corona

There are a couple of iconic musical voices for young Canadians growing up in the 1980s.  The top two spots probably go to Bryan Adams and Corey Hart, but not to far behind would be Alan Frew from the band Glass Tiger.  I can remember watching Video Hits on CBC in the hopes that one of their songs would play and it was a sure fire lock that someone would bring the cassette of their big album, The Thin Red Line, to our school parties.  To say that the album was huge would be an understatement.  It has sold nearly a million copies and spawned their biggest hit, Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone), which won the Juno Award for Best Selling Single back in 1986.  That was coupled with Juno Awards for Album of the Year and Most Promising Group of the Year.  I told you there were big.  Here we are, 36 years later and little 11 year-old me would sure find it cool to know that we were photographing them in concert.  Though he might be tad bit perplexed to know how old we now are.  Glass Tiger was at the Théâtre Corona in Montreal this past Thursday night as part of their Song's For A Winter's Night tour.  That is also the title of their most recent album, which was released back in 2020, but they never got to tour for due to 'The Plague'.  They describe the tour as all of the hits, mixed with a touch of Christmas cheer, and that is exactly what the crowd got.  The big hair may be gone, but the reaction to their songs is just as big as it ever was.  The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm.  Here are several more photographs that I took of their performance.

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/400sec, ISO 4000 at 38mm

f/3.2, 1/1600sec, ISO 4000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/500sec, ISO 4000 at 28mm

f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 4000 at 61mm

f/3.2, 1/400sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 4000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/1000sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 4000 at 50mm

f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 4000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 4000 at 57mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 4000 at 57mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 4000 at 57mm

f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/125sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/1000sec, ISO 4000 at 41mm

f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/400sec, ISO 4000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/400sec, ISO 4000 at 31mm

f/3.2, 1/400sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 4000 at 70mm

f/3.2, 1/640sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm

If you'd like to find out more about Glass Tiger and their music, don't forget to follow the link to their website.  A big thank you goes out to Andrew Turner of Enlightened Management and to Kimberly Zimmer of Get It Promotions for getting me a pass to shoot the show.  As always, the opportunity is very much appreciated.  This was likely to be my last concert of the year and I can't think of a better band to end things off with.  It's been a big year for concerts here on The Old Blog, hopefully it will continue into the new year.