jemo at Ciao Edie Roxx, December 8, 2006 (repost)
One of many jemo (www.jemo.net / www.jemounofficial.com) shows that I have gone to in the past year, without exception this was a great show. Ciao Edie Roxx is a small little place just off of College and Bathurst in downtown Toronto. Has an oddly shaped room, stage, and a smoke machine, caters to what I would classify as a more up-scale, pay $10+ for a martini (I’m taking a wild guess at price here) where people would venture to after work.
The set was great. jemo as always sounded very tight, well put together, and had lots of fun. Songs that I recognized I have no problem singing along to, and new songs are always great to hear and remember for when they are finally recorded and released.
They also played a new (to them) R&B cover this night, “Crazy” By Gnarls Barkley. Which was surprising and really good. I’d only heard the song a few times (even though it was a top song very recently) and the way jemo interpreted it, and changed it around just enough to fit their style of music, was truly inspirational.
Not much else to say other than it was a great set.
Edit: There’s more to this story!
Alright, more than a year later I’ve got more to say!
I still think this show was awesome. It may not be a surprise to all of you, that I run the jemo unofficial fan site due to Jeff’s unfortunate lack of HTML abilities. And it’s there I posted a clip of the show from that night. Truly a great way to sing a song, make it your own. I believe it was the Barenaked Ladies (a great Canadian band) that made mention to bands doing covers, to not try and be the original artist, it’s much better to be your own artist with their song.
And other than that, that’s always been a GREAT venue. It’s really tucked away and not very noticeable. I do know that the drinks are just a little bit pricey, but overall, I miss going there, and need more musician friends to play at that type of venue.
