Paper Lions reside in the Supermarket (Sept 14/11)

My third run-in with the pack of Paper Lions this summer and a few notes on how this encounter differed from the others. For starters the first couple occurred outdoors whereas this was confined to a Supermarket in Kensington. This setting allowed them to show how well they hunt as a pack - their harmonies really standing out. Furthermore they are not scaredy-cats when surrounded, as evidenced by their fully acoustic song when they took one guitar and their vocal cords to the centre of the audience mid set to delight (once they got the sound guy to kill the house music he'd flipped on). They aren't one-trick kitties either, as they left their Peter Gabriel cover out in favour of a Fine Young Cannibals jam (in honour of the Dwayne Gretzky cover band they were sharing the stage with). Possibly the most exciting factor was the new material they debuted here. The tried and true keys of Trouble still sounded sweet but the new Sandcastles and especially new closer, Parent's Talk, were fine additions.