The first opener for the night was Toronto based band dd/mm/yyyy.  The lead singer looked very white, wearing a Native American looking sweater, duct tape around a pant leg, all topped off with a Flock of Seagulls style haircut.  After he took off the sweater later in the show I noticed every band member wore a t-shirt of a different color (blue/green/red/gray/brown) and all with some image on them.  I can imagine them waking up and looking at each other as they dressed, then noticing two of them wearing the same color shirt and suddenly one would say, "Oh no, this will not do.  We can't have two blue shirts on stage, that'd be crazy!"  Or probably just coincidence.  Another visual observation was the bassist having his shoes off next to him.  He just mouthed the song as he played at first, but soon I could see why he had his shoes off;  He eventually was doing a little foot sideways slide dance.  It was nothing crazy, but enough to make it hard to look away.

For their first song, loud vocal effects were the intro.  A saxophone was brought out by the other singer and the music turned toward a video game tone off and on.  What I noted most through the show was the constant switching of instruments.  There were drums of course, but also an extra snare, cymbal and tambourine that someone else usually played.  The switches were made more enjoyable by the short length of time they took.  They were also fairly friendly, but as per the stereotype, we expect this of our northern neighbors.  After the first song they told the crowd that they had been here a week and they had "shed all their Canadian germs" so the crowd could move closer.  Many people actually obeyed their suggestion and soon the once empty middle was fairly filled.  Now and then the singer would tell the crowd what the next song was about, but by the time they had described a song's meaning that was about how you might make a pancake face with a bacon mouth, egg eyes and grits all over and a song about teaching a dead animal about photographs...well, I was not sure how much to believe them.  

Overall, I enjoyed their spastic singing mixed along with more ambient singing, old video game tones and energetic beats.   This is one of the rare times I enjoyed the first opener more than the rest of a show.  This was partly because they got the freshest part of my attention and energy, but also because they were the most musically accessible of the three bands playing, and maybe I preferred not to be challenged tonight.  Don't let this lower any respect for dd/mm/yyyy, because they were very engaging and had a level of quality they maintained nearly the whole show.  They sucked me into their distinctive sound and I'd look forward to it again.