The Heavy live in Toronto

Lee’s palace was filled wall to wall before the opening band even hit the stage. With everyone waiting patiently for the show to start gripping tightly to their beer bottles the first hour felt like the first day of school.

As soon as The Silent Comedy dropped the first beat the audience went all arms up and the dancing and screaming never stopped. School’s out kids. By the end of the first track The Silent Comedy and their mighty mustache got an all across the room nod of approval making a seamless transition into The Heavy‘s set.

Glorious Dead  is without a doubt an impactfull album. Stamped with The Heavy’ signature vintage feel the album is a soulful concoction of hip hop, rock, blues and funk coming together  into the ultimate bad ass party mix. Released just over a month ago via Counter Records,  the album had gone around enough for the lyrics to be involuntarily embedded into your brain. This shit is catchy!  So catchy it was in ads and movies before it was on your  iTunes.

On repeat.

A band always shows their full worth during a live show and The Heavy are sure on a mission to rock your shorts off.  Lead vocalist Kevin Swaby’s  conversationalist nature and contagious energy had everyone singing along even to the songs they may have never heard before in the “When I say, you say…” kind of way. Every song had a brief introductory story working up the audience with not so subtle hints about what the next song is. “Did you like that? Did you like that Toronto!” beat one, beat two, “How You Like Me Now?”