To get one of those beautiful 10th anniversary show posters now it’s going to to cost you

I’ve included three reports of their 10th anniversary below [1 complete and 2 links]. Combined they cover all the good stuff + some pics.

The show was easily one of the best live performances I have ever seen. Joi literally had goose bumps throughout most of the show. I watched for the first hour in awe of the HUGENESS created by only two of them as well as their telepathic [or ten years practiced] like interplay before getting over it and enjoying the show for what it was – an amazing showcase of what the White Stripes can do.

The performance of Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn off Icky Thump just about brought the house down.

They won the crowd over from the beginning and never lost them once – full house, 700+ people standing for 2.5 hours eating it all up, front of the stage to the back of the balcony. Fiddles, bagpipes, champagne, 2.5 hours, so much intensity, fist pumping, sing alongs – the building was electric and the White Stripes tapped into it for a truly memorable night.

Stephen Cooke’s report for the Herald [keeping reading below for his comments on the show from Locals]
The Rolling Stone Review

They ended with Boll Weevil – here’s a video

Ryan McNutt’s blog has extensive coverage of the White Stripes visiting NS, inclduing reviews of both the Halifax and Sydney shows [with set lists], pics, links to videos and more – definitely worth checking out if curious about the shows.

Keep reading for more from Mr.Cooke, more footage of the show and reports on their One Note Show in Newfoundland.

More YouTube footage:
Medley
Prickly Thorn

Stephan Cooke wrote on Locals:

Very intense fanbase presence (mostly local, but still), with little or none of the douchebaggery present at the Halifax show, lots of distant relatives in the crowd (I reckon 40-50 accredited family members were there after the show for the private after-party), including Buddy MacMaster and sitting next to me Jack’s delightful 94-year-old great aunt, who turned off her hearing aid (she didn’t need it) and covered her eyes from the strobe lights.

Missed Dan Sartain this time, due to the dicking around about my ticket (it was at the front box office all the time, just misfiled or something), but caught Ashley’s set. When he fiddled it was golden, but the poor lad should only be given a microphone when he has to announce the name of the next song. Ended his set with a duet with Buddy. Crowd goes bananas. Later on during the Stripes set, Jack thanks Buddy several times (he knows that having Buddy on the bill is the Celtic equivalent of doing a blues show with Lightnin’ Hopkins…and it shows, very effusive).

Stripes come on, simple set up with just a pure red cloth backdrop. They rock the shit out of that place for two-and-a-half hours. I’m in the second row on the aisle, losing my mind. Jack is much more, uh, “dramatic” for lack of a better word, probably because the whole thing is being filmed for a DVD of their Canadian tour. Very expressive and energized. Carmen Townsend is in the same row as me, and we keep looking at each other with these looks of “I can’t believe this is fucking happening” on our faces. (Later she weasels her way to the front of the stage…at one point Jack sticks a mic into the crowd during, I think, Fell In Love With a Girl and I can see her straining to be near it….)

At some point they play Dylan’s One More Cup of Coffee. I freak out.
The encore starts with Black Math. I freak out.
Then they do You’re Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl) and I freak out again. All three were on my wish list for Halifax, and weren’t played there.

Fewer Get Behind Me Satan Songs, and I’m okay with that.
No Conquest … bummer.

They played Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn off Icky Thump, with Jack on mandolin and Natalie MacMaster’s piper, Matt MacIsaac playing the lowland pipes (kinda like the irish pipes, but with a bag as well as bellows). Audience goes nuts.

At the end, they come out with the pipes and drums, waving a Nova Scotia flag and a Cape Breton flag, the audience erupts in a wave of catharsis. Jack gushes about how nice everyone’s been in Nova Scotia and how great it is to finally come “home.” I’m getting a bit weepy just thinking about it.

The One Note Show in NFLD [YouTube Footage]
And on that note, the White Stripes tour is over – CBC’s Report

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