Toronto may have been hit by a snowstorm Tuesday, but it was hit with a second storm on Wendesday night – this one courtesy of country superstar Keith Urban.
Urban put on one hell of a show for select fans and the press at a “secret” concert at the Mod Club in Toronto.
The crowd was hopping as soon as the country singer took the stage, often singing louder than Urban. So for a good chunk of the night, he turned his microphone around so the crowd could take over on vocals while he played the guitar.
The native Australian, who left rehab a few months ago, said this was only the second time his band has played together since October, the other coming recently in Chicago. His tour doesn’t start until April (it won’t hit Canada until September), but the boys just wanted to play.
And play they did.
Despite the concert being on Valentine’s Day, Urban didn’t give his concert a romantic theme, far from it. He played such non-loving hits as “You’ll Think of Me.” After the song, he said, it’s a “screw you Valentine’s Day” kind of tune. (His wife, Nicole Kidman, did not make the trip to Toronto.)
He also played his current number one single in Canada, “Stupid Boy,” the top country song in the country for four weeks in a row.
After his first two songs, he chatted up the crowd. When a woman yelled out, “I love you Keith!” the country superstar blushed a little before replying, “I love you too, sweetheart.” He then jokingly commented that the woman must have started drinking early in the day.
He continued to joke along with the crowd, but it was clear Urban wanted to play. Other songs he performed included, “Once in a Lifetime,” “If You Wanna Stay,” “Your Everything” and “Days Go By,” among many more.
When he asked where everyone was from, a few people in the front yelled Calgary. The singer took the bait asking how many other Calgarians were there; there were a few shouts.
“Ah, four more,” he said wryly.
Urban’s performance was only scheduled to last 45 minutes, but instead he took the stage 10 minutes early, and played 15 minutes past the scheduled cut-off time. Before leaving the stage after playing two songs as an encore, he shook hands with the fans in the front row.
His original goal may have been to promote his new album, “Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing,” but it was clear from the opening chord that Urban just likes to play his music and jam with his buddies.
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