On Sunday I went to a fabulous gig at Earl's Court to see Razorlight in their last gig on this particular tour. Aside from a bit of a scary girl fight in the croud (one girl got smacked in the head by another girl, and I mean properly smacked) the night went off without a hitch.
They opened up with "In the morning" and basically spent the early part of the gig rattling through their newest album and mixing in more and more material from their first album as they went on. I wasn't their biggest fan before the gig and neither am I now, but they certainly are an extremely good live act: my only complaint is that they didn't really give off an air of enjoying themselves - apart from the lead singer they spent the whole gig with heads down and trying to look cool. The afformentioned lead singer put on a great vocal performance and although he is obviously very very talented he was completely full of himself.
NB: To be fair they've just put on a sell out arena tour, scored a number one single and album (and a host of top 5 singles too) and he's knocking off Kirsten Dunst - I'd probably be full of myself too.
Back on track, he came in dressed all in white (tight white jeans, tee shirt and white trainers) looking something like a mix between Freddie Mercury and Mark Bolan, and certainly confirmed his Mercury-ambition with a spot of signature 'Sing-a-note, get-audience-to-sing-it-back' going on. He (and us for that matter) did pretty well out of it too. He spent quite an embarrassing amount of time looking like we going to cry and having a bit of a 'moment' every five minutes whenever he was just on mike, but once he picked up his guitar again he looked the part and stopped looking like he was going to have a Michael Jackson / Jesus moment.
All in all a bloody good night, despite some theatrical misgivings. Thoroughly reccomended.
They opened up with "In the morning" and basically spent the early part of the gig rattling through their newest album and mixing in more and more material from their first album as they went on. I wasn't their biggest fan before the gig and neither am I now, but they certainly are an extremely good live act: my only complaint is that they didn't really give off an air of enjoying themselves - apart from the lead singer they spent the whole gig with heads down and trying to look cool. The afformentioned lead singer put on a great vocal performance and although he is obviously very very talented he was completely full of himself.
NB: To be fair they've just put on a sell out arena tour, scored a number one single and album (and a host of top 5 singles too) and he's knocking off Kirsten Dunst - I'd probably be full of myself too.
Back on track, he came in dressed all in white (tight white jeans, tee shirt and white trainers) looking something like a mix between Freddie Mercury and Mark Bolan, and certainly confirmed his Mercury-ambition with a spot of signature 'Sing-a-note, get-audience-to-sing-it-back' going on. He (and us for that matter) did pretty well out of it too. He spent quite an embarrassing amount of time looking like we going to cry and having a bit of a 'moment' every five minutes whenever he was just on mike, but once he picked up his guitar again he looked the part and stopped looking like he was going to have a Michael Jackson / Jesus moment.
All in all a bloody good night, despite some theatrical misgivings. Thoroughly reccomended.
