Our Lady Peace Returns to Caesars Windsor and Delivers a Stellar Performance of 30 Years of Hits and Deep Cuts

Our Lady Peace has been creating music for 30 years now and they brought the OLP30 tour to Caesars Windsor this past Friday December 5 for a great night of hits and rarities to celebrate the milestone.

Opening the evening was indie band Kasador out of Kingston Ontario. The band has been around for over a decade but has started to make strides the last couple of years. Performing an energetic set of upbeat, guitar driven songs with a distinct alt rock sound, the band was a great warm up for the 90s alt rock fans in attendance. Bassist Boris Baker is the son of Tragically Hip guitarist Rob Baker and brings his musical heritage to the band in more ways than one. Rob Baker and Gord Sinclair were involved in the production of their debut album Brood & Bloom, and recently, Kingston native and Glorious Sons singer Brett Emmons has worked with the band.

Our Lady Peace started their set with Sound The Alarm, a song from their 2024 EP OLP30 Volume 1, and then played a string of hits, Superman’s Dead, Innocent, Naveed and Is Anybody Home. The fans in the floor seats were standing for the majority of the show and singing along to most of the radio hits. There were a couple of newer songs in the set and Windsor was the live debut of Temporary Healing, a song from the album Spiritual Machines 2.

Midway through the show, Raine Maida, the soul founding member still in the band, spoke about seeing The Tragically Hip at the Toronto Music Awards as a teenager. It was a moment that inspired him, a moment that helped define the difference between entertainment and art and set him in the direction that would become his own successful music career. To honor that pivotal moment in his life they performed a cover of The Hips Locked in the Trunk of a Car and encouraged everyone to sing along.

Other highlights of the show were the rare performance of the song Made of Steel and an acoustic performance of In Repair to start the three-song encore. An extended guitar intro to the final song of the night, Starseed, put an exclamation point on the evening and was a fine way to finish a night of great music.

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