Live Blogging The 2009 Polaris Music Prize

09/21/09 5:22pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

CHARTattack Managing Editor Aaron Brophy and I are getting ready to head over to the Masonic Temple for this year's Polaris Music Prize gala. I'll be live blogging the event, so be sure to check/obsessively refresh this page tonight for frequent updates from this year's event.

9:07 p.m.: After a few hours of doing interviews in the media room, the event has started and Metric are on stage performing acoustic versions of "Help I'm Alive" and "Gimme Sympathy" from  Fantasies.

9:21 p.m.: Hosts Grant Lawrence and Sarah Taylor have been dubbed "Long List" and "Short List" by the crew. (We're assuming Taylor is "Long List" because of her height.)

9:24 p.m.: Great Lake Swimmers are running through two numbers from Lost Channels.

9:40 p.m.: Lawrence and Taylor are nerdishly explaining how the winner of the Polaris Music Prize is determined.

9:41 p.m.: The third performers are Malajube, who apparently ate tons of barbequed ribs while recording Labyrinthes.

9:54 p.m.: Too bad Patrick Watson's set-up isn't like their show at the Montreal Jazz Festival earlier this year.

9:56 p.m.: Brian Borcherdt had to sneak in? WTF?

9:59 p.m.: WTF is that on Patrick Watson's back? Fifteen megaphones? Is he a turtle with a shell made of megaphones?

10:06 p.m.: I have no idea what just happened, but that was amazing.

10:21 p.m.: K'Naan's shoes are the best fashion accessory of the night... and he's killing "Wavin' Flag" right now.

10:31 p.m.: Joel Plaskett looks dapper in everything he wears.

10:35: Lawrence just said he's small enough to be Taylor's baby and looks old enough to be her father.

11:02 p.m.: Chad VanGaalen is totally shredding it right now. 

11:07 p.m.: Another highlight: CVG namedrops Leonard Cohen, uses the phrase "sloppy Susan," then makes a nonsensical comment about gelatin. Awesomesauce.

11:11 p.m.: Where is Elliott Brood's suitcase drum? B.S.!

11:12 p.m.: They're handing out cookie trays and wooden spoons to audience members... this is going to be interesting.

11:22 p.m.: So, um... spoons against cookie sheets? Surprisingly loud.

11:46 p.m.: Hey, have you heard about Tim Baker from Hey Rosetta!s amazing voice? Holy crap.

11:52 p.m.: Damian from Fucked Up celebrated his birthday recently ... unfortunately he will not jump out of a cake during the band's performance.

11:58 p.m.: Owen Pallett is going to play with Fucked Up. Will a pit form on the floor? Will VanGaalen start it? Wishful thinking?

12:03 a.m.: Damian's shirt is off!

12:05 a.m.: Lullabye Arkestra on stage with Fucked Up.

12:11 a.m.: Damian mooned the entire crowd, and Patrick Watson/Malajube seem to have decided to start a delayed circle pit because they just caused a food fight.

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