Looking forward to gig especially when I realised that it was to be 'In the round'. Along with a few photographs from her Facebook site showing what appeared to be the construction of illuminated stage props.
Did not look at the tickets when they arrived from Songkick who had alerted me to the gig and it was only on inspection when we arrived at the Roundhouse did it become obvious that this was a seated event, and we did not have a good location.
So it proved.
The gig was not in the round, but on a thrust stage, we were located stage left in the upper stalls and I had one of the cast iron columns right in my line of sight of the front of the stage.
Then to matters matters worse, the enlarged band from the last time we saw, were far too heavy, and I will point out the drummer and lead guitarist in that respect.
When the songs had little or no musical backing, all was great, but then in the act of unleashing some additional drama into the songs (which was not neccessary) the overwhelming and continuous thud thud from the drums and the scream of the guitar just drowned it all out.
The other half quite rightly commented that it made it sound amateur.
Nice little tribute to Bowie and I was surprised not to hear any mention of Wogan, who had passed away earlier in the day.
Late introduction of the 'Roundhouse Choir' was greatly appreciated and used to great effect on the final number, Nick Cave's The Ship Song. This I managed to video well as the couple in front of me had just left and I was able to from a human tripod with my legs and arms to steady the camera and also shot straight at the stage. Five efforts revealed that I was pointing to high as I tried to shot over the large head sitting down in front of me.
