Mon 25 Jul 2011
The Weeknd Performs “House of Balloons” and More at His First Solo Concert in Toronto (Video)
Posted by Mr.North under About Miss Info , Concerts , Good For Hip Hop , New Music , Photos , Things I Like , Videos[9] Comments
The Weeknd, that ever-illusive singer/songwriter made his much anticipated live show debut at Toronto’s Mod Club on Sunday night. The show was just supposed to be The Weeknd’s practice run for his upcoming appearance at Drake’s OVOfest, but the club’s tickets sold out within three hours, and fans were reportedly lined up as early as noon on Sunday afternoon. The Weeknd and a live band performed about an hour and a half of songs off his critically acclaimed House of Balloons mixtape to a packed house, while Drake and record bigwigs such as Joie Manda/WarnerBros. and Harve Pierre/BadBoy, looked on.
Above, The Weeknd performs “High For This,” the song that also appeared on Sunday’s season opener of HBO’s Entourage. (Props to NOW Magazine)
Fans will get a second chance to catch The Weeknd in a week when he opens up for Drake and Rick Ross at the second annual OVO Festival during Toronto’s Caribana festival.
Watch The Weeknd performing “The Birds (Part 1)”, “What You Need”, “Loft Music”, “Rolling Stone”, “House of Balloons”, etc…
And see twitpics from the audience…
After the jump…..
“The Birds (Part 1)”
“Loft Music”
“Rolling Stone”
“House of Balloons”
“The Party & The After Party” (videos via Danjafeetz and Sweetie2Shy)
Twitpics via: HustleGrl, CashUp, Bruce23WaynE, afrotoe, _anupa, Mr_Morgan, The_INFAMOUS, JonDekel, The_Real_BigC, christinatalie
Previously: The Weeknd “Trust Issues (Remix)” | Drake Admits To Having “Trust Issues” (New Music) | The Weeknd Leads Up To ‘Thursday’ With His New Track “The Birds (Part 1)” | The Weeknd – “Rolling Stone” | The Weeknd’s “High For This” Selected As Entourage’s New Theme Song | The Weeknd Performs “What You Need” At The University Of Toronto (Video)
July 25th, 2011 at 2:49 am
What do you think Miss Info..?? Future face of r&b and soul and beyond?
July 25th, 2011 at 2:57 am
Sooo..
It was like ..a sing-a-long with the Weeknd?
I’ll keep to the mp3’s
July 25th, 2011 at 5:16 am
A guy named “ripeballer” actually recorded those videos and uploaded them on Youtube for us to enjoy.
The videos you linked were stolen from “ripeballer” and re-uploaded by “Danjafeetz” to his own account an hour after “ripeballer” originally uploaded them to Youtube(without giving rightful credit to the guy he stole them from).
I made a comment to him about it and he deleted it, so he obviously wants people to think that they are his videos.
July 25th, 2011 at 10:07 am
oh I’m sorry about that. we had no idea. How bizarre! stealing Weeknd clips?
July 25th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
people singing along is annoy especially the wounded dog during what you need. SM to the H
July 25th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
I really didn’t notice the amount of voices singing along when I was in there… was way too high lol
July 25th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
miss info you give and show the weekend more than toronto has no idea about this dude
July 25th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
His voice is amazing. Its Incredible he created his buzz through the internet and took it from there. Makes you wonder are A&R’s really needed. Their leg work is done by computers now
July 25th, 2011 at 9:27 pm
Sean, clearly you havent been listening close to the people of Toronto. For once, we are supporting our own – a real rarity around these parts.