The high value-for-dollar quotient of last night's Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre concert might have had more to do with the current economic climate -- Olympics, anyone? -- than the acts on stage.
The opening night of Billy Talent's 19-date tour of Canada featured an extremely solid lineup, with enough visibility to warrant its arena-sized ambition. A quartet of rock and punk acts spread over four and and a half hours, all for the price (in the late going, at least) of a case of beer -- hard to argue with that in a depressed economy.
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