So anyway, besides the fact that I was actually quite ill (still am, hence the blog post at 3am; I cannot breathe) and also that I had to give up my prime spot in the centre of the room so that I could dash to the ladies in the far corner (I thought I was gonna blow chunks) and then stay in that corner, 1) just in case but 2) because that's where the air con was, BUT besides all that it was actually quite a great night!
Gabrielle Aplin has a fantastic voice, both live and in recordings but live... Her voice live is superior to her recordings (I think that's actually quite rare these days). She was super sweet, and appropriately nervous at the beginning but then seemed super chilled with the audience, cracking jokes with the rowdy, hench, 40-year-old male hecklers by the end (yeah, I don't know what they were doing there either).
She sang songs from her future release debut album English Rain (13th May), opening with Panic Cord, her next single from the album that has also been previously released on one of the two EPs that have seen the light of day on iTunes.
My favourite songs from the night were obviously the ones that I knew, including her cover of The Power Of Love, Keep Pushing Me and her current single Please Don't Say You Love Me. The track of night, I think everyone agreed, which was also the closer, was Home.
There was a brilliant moment when she was singing Home where, after realising that most of us knew it, she asked the audience to sing, stepping away from the mic, the band very quietly playing as everyone (mostly the females) in the audience sang the lyrics perfectly. It was the most harmonised sing along I've ever heard at a concert, I was quite blown away.
You can preview all of her songs off her album here. The ones I'm really looking forward to are Keep On Walking, a song that Gabrielle announced was "about some dick" to a round of laughter. This was another sing-along-song on the night where even the rowdy old men joined in quite joyously. Also looking forward to Salvation and the rest of the album, basically.
Here's her cover of The Power Of Love, in case you were in doubt about whether to listen to her or not...
Anyway, it's been a while, I basically missed out the whole of February, but who likes that month anyway?! I'm hoping to blog about Paramore soon this weekend. I've been wanting to since the video for Now came out, but here we are with another single (Still Into You) preparing us for the album orgasm we're going to experience when the album comes out on 8th april (it best be on my door step since I've pre-ordered it!)
I've also got some new tunes to blog about so I'll get on it!!!
~HL
