SC: How’s opening for Flogging Molly? Is it a good fit?ĭE: It’s awesome. SC: How long have you been on this Flogging Molly tour?ĭE: We started in Halifax on the 14th, so a couple of weeks.ĭE: Well, it’s more our van, which is full of pizza boxes and countless Tim Hortons coffee mugs. “Gangly” Kyle Erickson with Inward Eye at the Commodore Ballroom, Oct 29 2009. We caught up with Erickson, who is currently on tour with Inward Eye opening for Flogging Molly on a cross-Canada tour, in Toronto, aka the centre of Canada’s music scene… Today, the group is older, hopefully wiser, and certainly more experienced, having opened up for heroes the Who for several shows and honed its live set to the point where reviewers are falling all over themselves in rock ‘n’ roll ecstasy. Put it down to growing pains as singer/bassist Dave Erickson says in the following interview, “We were dumb fucking kids” when he, Kyle (guitar) and Anders (on drums) made Throwing Bricks. Who, to be fair, are probably all grizzled older rock types (like yours truly) who don’t go to rock shows anymore anyway (unlike yours truly). Throwing Bricks Instead of Kisses, the trio’s 2009 debut, has some rockin’ tunes, to be sure, but is unlikely to turn the heads of fans of the band’s purported influences (the Clash, the Jam, the Who). Inward Eye‘s live shows are, from all reports, on fire capturing that energy on record is a different matter. Is such a thing even possible in this day and age? (Note the sarcasm.) Three brothers from Winnipeg caught up in the big-money music machine. – by Shawn Conner/photos by Melissa Skoda Inward Eye at the Commodore, Vancouver, Oct 29 2009.
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