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I’m pretty sure that you and my parents both will excuse my expletives when I say: HOLY FUCKING SHIT! Especially when it’s in reaction to this, live footage from RNB virtuoso The Weeknd‘s very first gig.

Backed by a full band of musicians, Toronto-based singer Abel Tesfaye sounds huge – about 347,490x bigger, louder, smoother and cooler than he evens does on his brilliant self-released and Polaris-nominated debut mixtape House of Balloons.

Check four live tracks below, including set-opener ‘High for This’, as he basks in the revel of an adoring hometown crowd.

‘High for This’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Ft4NlqVUg

‘Rolling Stone’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AxNkg15jTM

‘What you Need’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE54zjA-BLc

‘The Party & The After Party’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOrNqsRwPZM