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deathpixie) wrote2003-10-15 12:00 pm
deathpixie) wrote2003-10-15 12:00 pm
Will you miss me when you're sober...?
Okay, I've scrounged as much work as I've been able, and I'm out again. Still, it's 12 pm, I'll be able to go and have lunch and waste another half hour in a bit.
But first, gloatage over last night's show with Deborah Conway. :)
I've got to say, the Famous Speigeltent (not that famous, since I'd never heard of it before, but then again this time last year I was in Florida *sighs*) is a rather nifty venue. Although the seats could be a bit more comfy and maybe not there at all, so if you want to dance, you can. But any way, it's non smoking, has a bar and if you get there early you can get seats right up the front - it's non-allocated seating. I did indeed get there early, and sat reading Naomi Kline's Fences and Windows more portable than No Logo, which I'll be reading next), listening to the inane babble of yuppies with half and ear (they were practically standing on top of me, so I couldn't avoid it), when a waitress appears from the nearby bar and asks if I want a drink. Perfect, since I was on my own and had no-one to mind my spot. So there I was, sipping red wine, drinking in the balmy spring night and deciding that yes, I do like living in Melbourne. :)
So, onto the show. Deborah, with her band, named the Sleepwalkers in the fifteen minutes before going on, is as much of a diva live as she is recorded, and whilst the show was acoustic, she still managed to hit the notes she's known for. She sang a combination of songs from her forthcoming album (which I shall have to investigate getting, I can see this now) and some of her better known older songs, including "Will You Miss Me When You're Sober?", "It's Only The Beginning", "Alive and Brilliant" and the one that has a chorus of "goodbye, goodbye, today will be tomorrow/ goodbye, goodbye, tomorrow's almost here..." whose name I've obviously misplaced in the mental filing.
I had the strangest sense of familiarity, looking up at her. She's in her late thirties, possibly early fourties (she's been performing since the Eighties - some will remember Do Re Mi), but looks far, far younger. There's also this sense of energy, of passion, about her, a feeling that whilst she's had some tough times, she loves life and intends to get the most out of it. And she was having fun, up there on the stage, even though it was the Yuppie Audience From Hell who were far too busy worrying about how their clothes and hair were sitting to actually, y'know, move in time to the music (I think I bugged the couple sitting next to me with my chair dancing). ;)
I wanna be like Deborah when I grow up. :)
As a closer, they did "Man Overboard". With a double bass, acoustic guitar, keyboards and a banjo. And it was still a rocking good song.
Got home late-ish (close to midnight, which is late if it's a work night), tucked myself into bed and slept like the dead.
But first, gloatage over last night's show with Deborah Conway. :)
I've got to say, the Famous Speigeltent (not that famous, since I'd never heard of it before, but then again this time last year I was in Florida *sighs*) is a rather nifty venue. Although the seats could be a bit more comfy and maybe not there at all, so if you want to dance, you can. But any way, it's non smoking, has a bar and if you get there early you can get seats right up the front - it's non-allocated seating. I did indeed get there early, and sat reading Naomi Kline's Fences and Windows more portable than No Logo, which I'll be reading next), listening to the inane babble of yuppies with half and ear (they were practically standing on top of me, so I couldn't avoid it), when a waitress appears from the nearby bar and asks if I want a drink. Perfect, since I was on my own and had no-one to mind my spot. So there I was, sipping red wine, drinking in the balmy spring night and deciding that yes, I do like living in Melbourne. :)
So, onto the show. Deborah, with her band, named the Sleepwalkers in the fifteen minutes before going on, is as much of a diva live as she is recorded, and whilst the show was acoustic, she still managed to hit the notes she's known for. She sang a combination of songs from her forthcoming album (which I shall have to investigate getting, I can see this now) and some of her better known older songs, including "Will You Miss Me When You're Sober?", "It's Only The Beginning", "Alive and Brilliant" and the one that has a chorus of "goodbye, goodbye, today will be tomorrow/ goodbye, goodbye, tomorrow's almost here..." whose name I've obviously misplaced in the mental filing.
I had the strangest sense of familiarity, looking up at her. She's in her late thirties, possibly early fourties (she's been performing since the Eighties - some will remember Do Re Mi), but looks far, far younger. There's also this sense of energy, of passion, about her, a feeling that whilst she's had some tough times, she loves life and intends to get the most out of it. And she was having fun, up there on the stage, even though it was the Yuppie Audience From Hell who were far too busy worrying about how their clothes and hair were sitting to actually, y'know, move in time to the music (I think I bugged the couple sitting next to me with my chair dancing). ;)
I wanna be like Deborah when I grow up. :)
As a closer, they did "Man Overboard". With a double bass, acoustic guitar, keyboards and a banjo. And it was still a rocking good song.
Got home late-ish (close to midnight, which is late if it's a work night), tucked myself into bed and slept like the dead.