Walk off the Earth performing Gotye's "Somebody that I Used to Know"
Walk off the Earth performing Gotye's "Somebody that I Used to Know"

Walk off the Earth performing Gotye’s “Somebody that I Used to Know”

Samsung held a preview party to celebrate the launch of the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone, their newest flagship (launching on major Canadian carriers on May 3rd in limited quantities). The S4 party was held on the same evening on April 25th across 3 cities: Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Feist was hyped up to play all 3 cities simultaneously as a 3D hologram. Walk Off the Earth rocked the Kool Haus that evening playing 2 lively sets.

Walk Off the Earth

Walk Off the Earth

Sarah Blackwood, Walk off the Earth

Sarah Blackwood, Walk off the Earth

Samsung also held a casting call to showcase one local artist in each of the 3 cities. Toronto got a performance from this handsome guy, Milan Boronell.

Milan Boronell, Toronto's Samsung GS4 Casting Call winner

Milan Boronell, Toronto’s Samsung GS4 Casting Call winner

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Overall it was a great as expected and free tickets quickly sold-out as usual. Other great Samsung launches I’ve been lucky to attend include the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 launch (with Psy performing “Gangnam Style”) and the Galaxy S3 launch with Cobra Starship. Stay up to date with Samsung Mobile Canada on twitter to keep up with all the activity they have going on.

Feist Photo: Samsung Canada

Feist Photo: Samsung Canada


Awesome Gotye cover by  @WalkOffTheEarth at @SamsungMobileCA #GS4Canada

Some other tweets from the evening:

Check out our live video of Walk off the Earth’s “Somebody That I used to Know”.

Here is Feist’s live video performing “A Commotion”.

Behind the scenes video of the making of the Feist holographic concert

Walk Off the Earth’s set lists:
FIRST SET
Revo
Magic
Corner
Speeches
Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know”
Sometimes
Summer Vibe

SECOND SET
Red Hands
Trouble
No Ulterior
Shake
Little Boxes
Money Tree
Man Down
Gang of Rhythm

More info about the Samsung Galaxy S4 including specs are here here.

Photos below and also on the Facebook album here.

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Nick Lee

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