Today I stumbled upon The O'Brien family at the Moss Street Market. It's a market 2 blocks from my house, a farmer's market I visit all the time. I expect nothing remarkable to come from these visits, unless we're talking about pie, because pie is always remarkable, especially during fall.
When I arrived, the band was singing Coldplay's 'Yellow', which is always a good song in my opinion. It's why Coldplay is famous, basically. Now I don't know if it was a combination of the warm sunshine on a crisp October day (I'm thinking about pie again), or the acoustics, but I abandoned all my other plans and sat down to listen. Which is about the time the band announced they were only singing one more song. Alas. I jumped up to talk to the singer, whose name is Fintan, a boy who looks like a better behaved Justin Bieber during his swoopy haircut phase. Unlike Bieber, Fintan was wearing properly fitted pants. I asked him what instrument he was playing (an electric bass. Fancy!), grabbed a card as they were out of CD's and thanked them for being awesome because I find it's always nice when someone tells you you're awesome.
Fintan is on iTunes here. Paul plays in Victoria a bunch and here's the band playing at Butchart Gardens in September. So glad I stumbed upon them today!
