Last Saturday, Hockey Day In Canada took place throughout the country. You basically had two option: 1) the lazy option, which was to watch the tripleheader of NHL action featuring the six Canadian teams on T.V 2) the brave option, which was to take your gear and go play hockey in the street.

You hadn’t pictured me as a metalhead, had you? Well, I’m not usually into heavy metal but I love Metallica. I had heard the band was great live and I couldn’t wait to attend the concert in Ottawa.

Welcome to my new series, the “Canadian List of Ten”! Ten weeks, ten posts, ten lists and one hundred new Canadian things for you, from food to language, from city to weather.

Today, we will start with music, something I really enjoy (and you may have noticed it given the number of concerts we went to!).

On Saturday, on an impulse, Feng and I decided to drive to Montréal to attend The Killers’ concert. Initially sold out, the show had been moved to a bigger venue at the last minute: the Bell Center.

We hadn’t been the Montréal since the very muddy Radiohead concert last year. This time, the weather was gorgeous… but we were indoor.

On Monday, ACDC played in Ottawa and we had the chance to go see them.

The place was packed with over 17,000 fans and the concert was sold out. Sure, we didn’t have great seats like we did for Green Day a month earlier, but the atmosphere was great.