{"id":1062,"date":"2011-06-06T16:54:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T16:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2011-06-07T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:45:47","slug":"k-d-lang-the-siss-boom-band-royal-concert-hall-june-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/k-d-lang-the-siss-boom-band-royal-concert-hall-june-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"k d lang &#038; The Siss Boom Band &#8211; Nottingham Royal Concert Hall June 4th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/220px-Kdlang22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1063\" title=\"220px-Kdlang22\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/220px-Kdlang22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very slightly extended version of my review for today&#8217;s Nottingham Post.<\/p>\n<p>On kd lang\u2019s first visit to the Royal Concert Hall, nearly twenty years ago, the audience was dominated by screaming young women. Tonight the top tier is empty and there are notably more males, of the middle aged variety. The Canadian singer is touring with a permanent band who give her a more relaxed onstage presence. They launches into \u2018I Confess\u2019, followed by a boomy \u2018Summer Fling\u2019. The sound settles down for a delicate \u2018Water\u2019s Edge\u2019. Then it\u2019s a lovely \u2018Miss Chatelaine\u2019 from her breakthrough, still most successful album, \u2018Ingenue\u2019. \u00a0The intro is coquettish, her stage dancing joyful.\u00a0 The title track of new album, \u2018Sing It Loud\u2019, is dedicated to \u2018all the freaks. I expect Nottingham has its share. We have our share on stage, too.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The set reaches its peak with \u2018a country song by The Talking Heads\u2019, a mesmerising version of \u2018Heaven\u2019 that shows off k d\u2019s vocal pyrotechnics, reminding anyone who\u2019s forgotten that she\u2019s the best in the business. Even this is excelled by what follows, a stunning arrangement of \u2018Hallelujah\u2019 that brings many to their feet. It\u2019s a song that has been done to death in recent years, but k d was one of the first to cover it and reinvents it all over again. I\u2019ve only seen the song\u2019s writer, Leonard Cohen, perform it better.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble is that the remaining half of the show is an anti-climax. Twelve of the eighteen songs played come from the new album and, while the show remains enjoyable, things start to get samey. The band is great, but doesn\u2019t explore her sublime back catalogue in much depth. Only set closer \u2018Constant Craving\u2019 returns the excitement factor. There\u2019s always a balance between playing old stuff that the audience is familiar with and showcasing the new material that the artist, is, understandably, keenest on. Maybe I\u2019m in picky reviewer mode when I suggest that a longer set might get round the problem. The ninety minute concert ends with a full standing ovation for the final encore, a lovely version of \u2018Hungry Bird\u2019, which also closes the new album.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/14-Hungry-Bird.mp3\">kd lang &#8211; Hungry Bird<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very slightly extended version of my review for today&#8217;s Nottingham Post. On kd lang\u2019s first visit to the Royal Concert Hall, nearly twenty years ago, the audience was dominated by screaming young women. Tonight the top tier is empty and there are notably more males, of the middle aged variety. The Canadian singer is touring with a permanent band who give her a more relaxed onstage presence. They launches into \u2018I Confess\u2019, followed by a boomy \u2018Summer Fling\u2019. The sound settles down for a delicate \u2018Water\u2019s Edge\u2019. Then it\u2019s a lovely \u2018Miss Chatelaine\u2019 from her breakthrough, still most successful album, \u2018Ingenue\u2019. \u00a0The intro is coquettish, her stage dancing joyful.\u00a0 The title track of new album, \u2018Sing It Loud\u2019, is dedicated to \u2018all the freaks.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}