Sugar Ray September 25, 2018 America Gardens Theater Orlando, FL

Despite their all but forgotten start as a nu metal band, Sugar Ray morphed into this pop phenom in the late 1990's with their mega-hit "Fly". They went on to score a handful of other hits into the 2000's, when it was virtually impossible to turn on the radio without hearing one (or more) of them. With less success on their more recent albums, Mark McGrath teamed up with similar bands to create successful 90's nostalgia tours (first "Summerland", then "Under The Sun"). 
This recording captures the third show from night two of their tenth year playing the International Food and Wine Festival at Disney's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (Epcot). This was forty minutes of absolute fun for all, including the band. I lost count of the times McGrath was in and out of the audience, pausing for selfies with countless fans. As if Sugar Ray didn't ooze enough 90's sentimentality, they decided to throw in a cover of Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" for good measure. Although officially fall, this was a hot Florida evening spent with family enjoying a trip down memory lane.

1. Words To Me
2. Every Morning
3. band intro
4. Someday
5. When It's Over
6. Tubthumping
7. Fly/What I Got

Download this show HERE.
Photo credit goes to Ryhan Wickerham
Check out all things Sugar Ray HERE.

Squeeze November 12, 2017 America Gardens Theater Orlando, Florida

Twenty eight years, almost to the day, from the first time I saw Squeeze, I took the opportunity
to see them at Epcot's International Food and Wine Festival. This was the first, and one of just a handful of US tour dates supporting their new release "The Knowledge", that I'm just now listening to for the first time as I type. Difford and Tilbrook both looked and sounded great,
and so did their band. Their back catalog is of course, amazing so choosing a handful of "hits"
to showcase must have been difficult, BUT how could they not play Footprints (end of rant). The
new songs sounded good, having no frame of reference at the time. I'd have preferred to been familiar with the new tunes, but I'll do that now (opera singing on Rough Ride just blasted my speakers). If you can catch one of the few US tour dates, based on this sampling, I'd go for it.

Set 1
1. Hourglass
2. Pulling Mussles (From The Shell)
3. Patchouli
4. Annie Get Your Gun
5. Albatross
6. Take Me I'm Yours
7. Innocence In Paradise
8. Tempted
9. Black Coffee In Bed

Set 2
1. Please Be Upstanding
2. Another Nail In My Heart
3. Hourglass
4. Cool For Cats
5. Innocence In Paradise
6. Goodbye Girl
7. Tempted
8. Black Coffee In Bed

Set 3
1. Slap and Tickle
2. Is That Love
3. Pulling Mussles (From The Shell)
4. Patchouli
5. Take Me I'm Yors
6. Cool For Cats
7. Tempted
8. Black Coffee In Bed

Find tour dates and such HERE.

Download these sets HERE.