Fuscia at West 49 on June 19th 2007
Fuscia (www.fusciamusic.com), lord knows how, was invited to play inside of a West 49 store in Vaughn… the one inside Vaughn Mills Mall in Ontario. Now to anyone who knows, this is one of those very yuppy malls that is a bit of a big-box discount store type feel with the giant Holt Renfrew Last Call store, but also has go-kart tracks and some pretty pricy stores in it as well.
So the boys are playing, and I follow Mikey S around like a lost puppy at times, and decided it would be an interesting place to go see them play.
Previous to this I had only seen Fuscia with a full on band, and everything is plugged in. I knew this was likely not going to happen inside a mall, but really didn’t know what to expect.
I got there just in time to meet up with the guys and talk to them about the photos that I take and the stuff that I do. In the end there was very little to set up. Mikey got to stay electric on his bass but with one of the smallest amp’s I’d ever seen. The guitarist was on an acoustic guitar. The singer had his microphone and a bottle of water, and the drummer was a part of the audience for the majority of the set.
The songs sounded awesome. A little strange in that they didn’t have all the power behind them that you would normally expect from a pop-rock band, but it was really nice to hear. That the musicians had talent and it really showed through when they performed the way that they did.
Sure it was one of the stranger places I’d seen a band play, but then again my friends in jemo did a tour mainly consisting of starbucks and chapters one summer. That must have been equally strange for them as well.
So here’s my ode to Fuscia, who seem to have sadly parted ways since the last time I spoke about them. But we’ll always have the memories. And I have a bunch of awesome photos.
