Our Lady Peace will play a rare club show to celebrate their 30th anniversary as a band

I first heard of Our Lady Peace when a shy bespeckled kid came into the radio station with a demo cassette, asking if I could listen to it. I’d remember that kid later when I recognized Jeremy Taggart as the original drummer of Our Lady Peace. That was 30 years ago. I lost the cassette for a while, but I was able to find it. It’s now in my personal archives.

There have been a couple of lineup changes since then, but OLP is still very much a going concern. To celebrate their 30th anniversary, they are going to play a rare club show at Lee’s Palace in Toronto (capacity ~350?) on September 25. OLP played Lee’s many times over the years, so it’s an appropriate place to kick off these anniversary celebrations.

I quote frontman Raine Maida:

“Our Lady Peace cut its teeth at Lee’s Palace in the early nineties. I’ve always viewed Lee’s as the same rite of passage as New Yorks CBGB’s was. Nirvana played Lee’s before anyone knew them as did the Pixies and Chili Peppers. It’s an honour for OLP to be playing there again. It’s also a chance to introduce new music from our forthcoming album and pay tribute to our fans and the songs that helped build our career. We’re all lucky Lee’s Palace still exists, and we look forward to ripping the roof off this iconic venue in the city I grew up in.”

Pre-sale tickets for this one-time-only show go on sale Thursday, September 5 here. General sales begin Friday, September 6 here.