When Pavement played the Vogue way back in July of 1999, the quartet of indie slackers were a bit unhappy with the Georgia Straight.

After the paper published a, shall we say, less than flattering feature on the band, the crew took the opportunity presented by the group’s Vancouver gig to let lowly Straight music critic Mike Usinger know exactly what it thought of an article he’d done to preview the show.

If you were there, you might remember one of the band members shouting “If Mike Usinger comes near any member of Pavement, we will kill him.” Or, at least something like that.

At the time meandering off radio charts and clinging to college rock’s dying corpse, it’s possible that Pavement was just blowing off some steam. Or, more likely, Usinger had it coming.

Regardless, after Pavement’s September 6, 2010, performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, it’s clear that no one in the band has held any ill will towards Vancouver.

Over the course of a set that kept the entire audience on its feet for a full two hours, Stephen Malkmus and the boys cranked out classic gold soundz all night, proving Spin magazine right for calling the band’s current tour “a perfect moment of reunion-rock congress.”

For a group that’s spent most of the last decade on hiatus—hell, for any band of 40-somethings doing messy alt-rock tunes for kids—it was one hell of show.

Here’s a peek.

Pavement plays "Starlings Of The Slipstream" at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.

Pavement plays "Conduit for Sale!" at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.

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