Raine Maida, second song of the set. 1/250s at f/2, ISO 3200.
The house lights dropped nine minutes late and the band walked on to a room that had clearly been waiting a long time for it. Two songs in, the front three rows were singing loud enough to carry over the monitors.
Photographically it was a generous night: warm key light from stage left, a hard white backlight that separated everyone from the drape, and enough movement to make the third song worth staying for. Most of these frames come from the pit before the standard three-song cutoff, with the wide shots made later from the soundboard.
Backlight from the truss, third song.
The set leaned on the records people came for without turning into a nostalgia act, and the newer material held its place in the running order. By the encore the barricade was two deep in phones, which is its own kind of picture.
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