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Peach Pit & Briston Maroney at Deer Lake Park in Burnaby
You couldn’t have asked for a better night. The sky was blue, the grass was dry, and the vibes were dialed in as Briston Maroney and Peach Pit co-headlined the Long Hair, Long Life Tour at Deer Lake Park. If the show had any flaws, no one noticed. Everyone was too busy dancing, yelling lyrics, and taking mental screenshots of a night that just felt good.
BNNY set the tone with a short set, mixing softness with sharpness. It felt like the calm before the storm, and sure enough, Briston Maroney came charging onstage like someone had dropped a Mentos into his Coke. “Real Good Swimmer” cracked the night open with a rockier edge than fans might expect from his records. The crowd responded with instantly, dancing, clapping, and feeding off Maroney’s everything-all-at-once stage presence.
From there, he bounced between rock ragers and slow-burn heart-tuggers. A mid-set breather brought out Pacoustic version of “Land of Light” and “Caroline”. It was an unexpected but welcome mood shift that hit especially hard as golden hour started to lit up the park. Later, he closed his set with “Freakin’ Out on the Interstate,” which turned into a massive, arms-in-the-air chorus.
Peach Pit followed and never let the energy dip. The Vancouver hometown heroes got a hero’s welcome, especially when they kicked off with a cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” before sliding into the groove of “Magpie.” Neil Smith was his usual goofy, charming self, trading jokes with the audience, dancing like no one was watching, and somehow managing to make chaos feel effortless.
Their setlist hit all the fan-favourite checkpoints: “Give Up Baby Go,” “Alrighty Aphrodite,” “Shampoo Bottles.” And the crowd was all in, singing every word, jumping along, and forming little dance pits across the lawn. The newer tracks from Magpie landed strong too.
The encore was more than just an extra song. Smith came out solo to share how the band started and played the original version of “Peach Pit.” Then came “Tommy’s Party,” with both Smith and Wilton’s dads joining in. A great ending to the set.
Briston Maroney and Peach Pit are very different performers, but that’s what made the show work. One brings the whirlwind, the other brings the sway. Together, they turned a warm, beautiful night at Deer Lake Park into something unforgettable.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
Sat Jun 07 – Troutdale OR – McMenamins Edgefield
Tue Jun 10 – San Francisco CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Wed Jun 11 – Los Angeles CA – Greek Theatre
Fri Jun 13 – San Diego CA – Park at the Park – Petco Park
Sat Jun 14 – Phoenix AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre
Mon Jun 16 – Austin TX – Moody Amphitheater
Tue Jun 17 – Dallas TX – South Side Ballroom
Wed Jun 18 – Houston TX – 713 Music Hall
Fri Jun 20 – Atlanta GA – Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
Sat Jun 21 – Charlotte NC – Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sun Jun 22 – Washington D.C. – The Anthem
Tue Jun 24 – Boston MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Wed Jun 25 – Shelburne VT – The Green at Shelburne Museum
Thu Jun 26 – Toronto ON – Budweiser Stage
More info about the tour here!
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BRISTON MARONEY
PEACH PIT
All Photo Credit: Bailey Morgan
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Summer of ’99 Tour: Creed Gives Winnipeg a Night to Remember
Some nights disappear by the time you get home. This wasn’t one of them. From the first note to the final encore, Canada Life Centre never stopped singing with Creed. Beat after beat, lyric after lyric, hundreds of voices carried the night. If you weren’t there, you genuinely missed something special.
Opening the night was Mammoth. Before jumping into the set, Wolfgang Van Halen asked the crowd how many had seen the band before and how many were first-timers. The cheers landed almost perfectly down the middle.
I also found out he was Eddie Van Halen’s son, my expectations shot through the roof. That’s a heavy name to carry. Songs like “The End,” “The Spell,” “Distance,” and “I Really Wanna” showed exactly why Mammoth is building its own reputation. By the end of the set, he wasn’t just Eddie’s son, he was Wolfgang Van Halen.
Next came Big Wreck, a band that somehow gets even better live. Ian Thornley’s guitar work was effortless, floating between delicate melodies without missing a beat. “The Oaf,” “Come Again,” and “Albatross” sounded massive. Every instrument cut through cleanly, every lyric landed. Big Wreck are definitely one of Canada’s strongest live rock bands.
Then everything shifted. Long before the lights dropped, the arena had already decided who they came for.
“Creed! Creed! Creed!”
The chant rolled across the building before the band even stepped on stage. The opening blast of “Bullets” hit with fire shooting into the air, smoke pouring across the stage. They played like a band with something left to prove. Audiences were locked in just like the band.
The set moved through “Weathered,” “On My Sleeve,” “My Own Prison,” “What If,” “One,” “What’s This Life For,” and “With Arms Wide Open.” Every chorus came back twice as loud as it left the stage. Thousands of phone lights lit up the arena.
After a short pause, the encore delivered exactly what everyone had been waiting for. “One Last Breath.” The crowd barely let Stapp finish a line before taking over. Then came “My Sacrifice,” and for a few minutes, the band almost disappeared beneath the voices around them. That’s what made this show hit differently. The show was about hearing songs that still connect, still fill arenas, and still have thousands of people screaming every word like they were written yesterday.
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CREED
BIG WRECK
MAMMOTH
All Photo Credit: Nischal Karki
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Coheed and Cambria Bring “This Is Our War” to Ottawa
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa – July 14, 2026
There’s a particular kind of chaos that follows Coheed and Cambria into a room, and Ottawa got the full dose of it on a Tuesday night that felt more like a Saturday. Twenty-plus years into their run, and still touring behind last year’s Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe, the New York prog-rock lifers proved once again that a good story and a great riff are not mutually exclusive.
The Openers: Cevilain Own Their Hometown Stage
Before the headliners even hit the stage, the local crowd already had something to cheer for. Cevilain, Ottawa’s own, got the rare hometown-opener treatment, and they didn’t waste it. Tight, loud, and relishing the size of the room, the band tore through a set that had the front rows moving well before Coheed‘s set change. There’s something different about watching a band play in their own city, and that energy was written all over the performance.
The Headliners: Hair, Harmonics, and the Keywork
By the time the house lights dropped, the room was packed shoulder to shoulder. Claudio Sanchez took the stage exactly as fans expect him to, guitar slung low and hair a wall of curls.
The production leaned hard into the band’s sci-fi mythology, with the “keywork” logo splashed across the backdrop in shifting reds, blues, and greens throughout the night. Sanchez spent as much time airborne, leaping, crouching, and prowling the lip of the stage, as he did locked into the fretboard, and the rest of the band matched the intensity beat for beat. The rhythm section anchored the heavier cuts while the guitar work carried the band’s trademark blend of melodic hooks and progressive sprawl.
Between songs, the crowd took over almost as much as the band did, fists in the air, singalongs on the choruses, and no shortage of phones raised to catch a moment.
The Takeaway
For a band this deep into a catalog built on interlocking concept albums, Coheed and Cambria‘s live show still manages to feel less like a history lesson and more like a release valve. Ottawa showed up ready to shout every word back, Cevilain proved a hometown opening slot is nothing to waste, and by the time the last chord rang out, it was clear this stop on the This Is Our War tour earned its place in the run.
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COHEED AND CAMBRIA
CEVILIAN
All Photo Credit: Kieran Delport