REVIEW: Armin Only: Intense at Metro Toronto Convention Centre 19/04/14 by Montana McGiverin

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I’m still in awe about what had taken place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Saturday, April 19th, 2014. Armin van Buuren brought his Armin Only: Intense to Toronto, something that this city is truly blessed with getting! As the days moved closer to the show, I couldn’t be more excited and the show exceeded my expectations by a landslide.

I had arrived at the venue early, before doors even opened, and rushed into the venue as soon as they started letting us in. It was very well organized; I couldn’t believe my eyes when I had went up the escalator, the entire venue was opened and could easily have fit thousands of people. I patiently waited for 9 p.m. to roll around, and it was well worth the wait.

Armin started off the show performing in something similar to a lit-up globe. The globe had his silhouette shown throughout the entire opening, which lasted about an hour. During the opening Armin played one of my favourite of his tracks, Waiting for the Night ft. Fiora, and Fiora appeared performing live vocals! I was on cloud 9 at that point and I still had more than 4 hours to go!

Throughout the night he had acrobats and trampolinists jumping in the air over him and around him, doing tricks I have never seen before! Some of the time I could barely focus on the music, I was so mesmerized! There were several vocalists throughout the night including Fiora, along with Laura Jansen, Lauren Evans and Richard Bedford all performing the most beautiful songs that they’ve collaborated on with Armin. Armin had even had his own brother, Eller van Buuren playing live guitar throughout the night, and had included a band to perform for a couple of songs.

Armin took us through a magical evening of trance music, the classics, the new trance, and treated us to visual and audio magnificence. I await his return to Toronto, along with the rest of the TranceFamily. Thank you to Live Nation and Armin van Buuren for one of the most incredible nights of my life.

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Montana McGiverin EDM TOR

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Adele is the owner of Tranceported. She manages and maintains the social media and the photo and video teams, and has been shooting our event photos since 2011. She has been a fan of Trance music since the mid-90s and started this website (formerly called EDM TOR) in 2012.

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