Mike Herle

Posts by Mike Herle

• Norm MacDonald at the Red Robinson Show Theatre, March 19, 2010

  “Why don’t they give shooter drinks realistic names? Like instead of ’sex on the beach’ which is just a way to embarrass the barmaid when you order it, they should call it ’senseless knife fight.’”

• Jeremy Hotz at the Vogue Theatre, March 13, 2010

  “Some of the crowd interaction drew the biggest laughs,” writes our reviewer, quoting Hotz. “‘You two, lawyers, married? How do you have a truthful conversation?’”

• Review – The VSO Performs Gershwin, Feb. 6, Orpheum Theatre

  How could Mike Herle not love it? It’s Gershwin, aka the music from the Woody Allen movie Manhattan.

• Review – The VSO Performs Symphony of a Thousand, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8

  A cast of (literally) over a thousand performs Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand.

• Review – Fiddle and the Drum at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Jan 22 2010

  The self-proclaimed ‘best project’ of Joni Mitchell’s career, a collaboration with the Alberta Ballet, comes to Vancouver to help kick off the Cultural Olympiad 2010.

• Review – VSO at the Orpheum Theatre, Jan 16 2010

  The VSO performs Dvorak’s Carnival Overture and Respighi’s Anicent Airs and Dances and Pines of Rome, while Jennifer Koh plays ‘like an angel possessed.’

• Review – Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum Theatre, Jan 9, 2010

  Mozart goes to the heart, writes our reviewer. The VSO repeats the program tonight at the Orpheum Theatre.

• Concert Review – Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum, Vancouver, Jan 2 2010

  ‘”I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men, and makes them drunk with the spirit…”‘

• Concert Review – U2 at BC Place Stadium, Vancouver, Oct 28 2009

  ‘Only the second song (”Get On Your Boots”), and it’s typical Bono: doing it and overdoing it. What next? Maybe he’ll read the transit schedule as a way of showing off his local knowledge…’

• Concert Review – Collective Soul at the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, Oct 23 2009

  ‘If the response for these songs was strong, the response for the biggest Collective Soul hit “Shine” verged on the ridiculous…’

• Review – Adrian Belew at the Venue, Oct 11 2009

  King Crimson, Talking Heads, and David Bowie—with credits like these to his name, Adrian Belew is a guitar player’s guitar player.

• Review – Roger Daltrey at the Commodore Ballroom, Oct. 10, 2009

  For Who fans who might’ve been worried he was going do do all of the McVicar soundtrack, Roger Daltrey’s Vancouver show—the first of his ‘Use It or Lose It’ tour—was a Who-riffic treat.