Concert Review: Warmduscher, March 4, The Garrison

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Concert Review: Warmduscher, March 4, The Garrison

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5 Mar 2025

by

Paul

Just moments before Warmduscher would begin their show at The Garrison, some guy in the washroom asked me which album I was most excited to hear while we were both washing our hands.

I must admit I was a little unprepared for this question (or any question really, in that situation) and so I just responded with more or less the same response that Initech employee Michael Bolton gave in Office Space when asked by “the Bobs” what his favourite song was from that other Michael Bolton: I guess I like ’em all. If I’d given it a moment’s more thought however, I’d likely have responded that the one I was most looking forward to hearing played live was their latest, Too Cold to Hold.

Too Cold to Hold, the band’s fifth full-length, is most definitely an album I was looking forward to hearing in a live setting, not only because I’d spent a fair bit of time listening to it in advance of the band’s show on Tuesday night, but also because it’s simply a solid collection of tunes. It’s a great album, at times noisy and abrasive, at others funky and danceable, and often all of the above over the course of a single song. And live, it sounded fantastic, with the band putting on a fun, high energy performance for the sold out crowd.

Taking to the stage to the strains of Champaign’s smooth ’80s R&B jam “How ‘Bout us,” the London-based five-piece immediately launched into “Staying Alive” off the new album to get things started and kept the party going from there. Vocalist Clams Baker Jr. made for an engaging and energetic frontman with his gregarious life-of-the-party vibes and his bandmates, for their part, were no slouches themselves. When all was said and done, the band had run through 23 songs in total, with “Pure at the Heart,” “Fashion Week” and the band’s Kool Keith collaboration “Burner” (sadly sans Keith, but Clams filled the role quite well) standing out as a few of the highlights.

All in all, a great show. I just hope that dude from the washroom heard everything he wanted to hear.

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