It’s back to The Independent to see Tiga perform! Booka Shade was a great show as was RJDJ years back. The venue, while hard to find parking, is fairly decent and the staff is usually courteous so this can’t be so bad a night, eh? Oh how wrong I was!

Rarely do I get to a show purposely before the headlining act goes on stage. I have only been to a few shows where the preshow acts are decent. When I do accidently catch one and it’s great, I’m always amazed. The Tiga show at The Independent was one of the worst I have had the pleasure of witnessing. We head in around 10pm and “DJ Omar” is finishing up his set of mediocre remixes of decent mainstream tracks and by 10:30 or so (and I only put the myspace link up for posterity but I do not suggest clicking it) Jaimie Fanatic prances up to the center stage with his Macbook to let us listen to some of his new beats. This guy (”Jamie Fantastic” as I mistakingly refered to him as) worked the knobs in a most enthusiastic fashion (including the crowd-pumping favorites Tomahawk Chop, Lasso Whirl, and Resuscitation Press) but only ear-splitting laser noises came out of the speakers. Truly, this was the single worst thing I have ever heard (and I listened to that terrible Animal Collective ”Animal Crack Box” album). I’d hate to even try to pinpoint the worst part of his act but it was probably the Rage Against the Machine forced audience participation remix. At one point, people were just booing in an effort to get him to stop his set and leave.

Finally around 11:45 Tiga starts to set up. It only takes a few minutes as he’s only there to “spin” it seems. $18 and I can hear him spin some dated 90’s progressive jungle house nonsense? 10 minutes into his set and he takes off his jacket to reveal some free ad space on his chest promoting his own album. Bravo, sir. 30 minutes into his set we decide to leave. I was a bit upset that I couldn’t bring my camera to the show as it was deemed “too professional” by the ticketers but in the end, I missed nothing. Here’s a G1 Phone pic of Tiga doing something.

 ”Why did you even go?” you ask? Well, Tiga’s last album ”Sexor” was actually pretty cool and the new one “Ciao!” has some great sounds going on. Not only that, but Tiga, himself, is actually a pretty amusing guy. Here, check out this “interview” he did. It’s full of scripted douchebaggery as he makes himself out to be Canada’s best export.

I missed Passion Pit last Tuesday but made it to this? Pfft. . .my priorities are all mixed up. Do yourself a favor and snag their latest album “Manners.” It expands their “Chunk of Change” EP with more feel good music (even if you think Michael Angelakos’ voice is abrasive).