Crunchy ‘Nanas

While I was watching, you did a slow dissolve…

I am told that when I was a baby, I woke up singing. For whatever reason, I’ve lost much of my morning perk since I moved to England. But thanks to an excellent performance by David Gray and his band at the Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone last night, I woke this morning with Slow Motion humming around my head.

I’ve listened to David Gray for close to nine years now, and yet this was my first chance to see him perform live. For the last couple years, I’ve been in California when he was playing local England shows and in England when he was in California. But last night, I was there and I was not disappointed. It was great to see him in a venue so small. His voice reverberated around me and I could appreciate how much vocal control he really has. I loved hearing all his yips, na-nas and yee-hees so close and I was, at times, completely absorbed by Neill MacColl on the guitar.

Tell me something, tell me something I don’t already know…

The only disappointment of the night was the rudeness from people who seemed to be there only to get wasted, talk, and start show-stopping fights. There are places in the material where you should be able to hear a pin drop, but last night that space was filled with the constant rumble of socializing at the bars. Not very respectful to the people on stage, nor the audience members who came to appreciate the music. The performance felt a bit stiff for a while after David Gray had to summon security during a very intense and jammin’ end to Lately to get the fighting punks out of there. I’m thinking he won’t play there again, which is too bad for us.

Feels like lightning running through my veins… 

Small pellets of ice fell as we drove home last night and snow flurries fell tonight. Perhaps this year, it will be a white Easter. I hope so. It might as well snow and be pretty if it’s going to be this cold.

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Now playing: David Gray - Slow Motion
via FoxyTunes

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