Our Lady Peace At Place Bell

"Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day."  Those famous words from The Mama’s & The Papa’s still hold true all these years later.  While I think that it is a universal fact that nobody likes Monday, the day does become a little easier to endure with the promise of a killer rock show to come.  It was that very belief that helped several thousand people get through the Monday Blahs before making their way to Laval to catch a performance by legendary Canadian rockers Our Lady Peace at the Place Bell.  Celebrating their 30^th Anniversary, there is one of those big numbers again, Our Lady Peace have been crossing Canada to give their loyal fans a show full of their greatest hits, hidden gems and the kind of good time that we all need these days.  Before hitting the stage, we were treated to a video retrospective of Our Lady Peace.  From their humble beginnings to becoming worldwide superstars, it was nice to go back in time to see the band and their evolution.  Our Lady Peace then hit the stage and opened with possibly their biggest hit, Superman’s Dead, from their breakthrough 1997 album, 'Clumsy'.  Most band save their big hits for later in the set, but opening with Superman’s Dead got an already excited crowd even more pumped up.  The followed that up with the one-two punch of One Man Army and Naveed, letting the audience know that this was going to be a night they were not going to forget.  OurLady Peace opened with their big guns firing and never looked back.  As part of their 30^th Anniversary celebrations, Our Lady Peace has released a series of EP’s.  OLP 30 volumes One, Two & Three highlight all of the greatest hits while giving their loyal fans some new songs mixed in as well.  All of the photographs were taken at f/3.2 while using several different shutter speeds, ISO setting and focal lengths.  Here are the rest of the photographs that I took of Our Lady Peace as they performed on the Place Bell stage.

If you would like to find out more about Our Lady Peace and their music, you can do so by following the link to their website.  If you would like to see the photographs that I took of Collective Soul, who performed earlier in the evening, you can do so by following the link to their website.  Much thanks goes out to Evenko and Christopher Gonda of V13 Media for getting me a pass to photograph the show.  As always, it is very much appreciated.  This tour began in February and is about to come to an end, but there are still a few more anniversary shows scheduled to take place before the year comes to an end.  When it’s all said and done, Superman may be dead, but Our Lady Peace is still out there rocking as hard as ever.  Be sure to check them out when they visit your town.