On Sunday, Lucy and I went to see the gorgeous Michael Kiwanuka at the Old Firestation again. It was such a lovely concert, his support was called Jack Bugg who was good, a little Johnny Flynn but very shy! When Michael came on, the crowd was welcomed to a beaming smile from him and a guitarist with the COOLEST afro I've seen in a long time. His voice is so soulful and beautiful it almost made me forget how ill I was at the time! I love it when a singer sounds just as good or even better live than on their albums and he definitely didn't disappoint.
He played all of his hits and few I hadn't heard before but all were just so beautiful you could just relax into his voice. I particularly enjoyed the synchronised bobbing heads from the band, who all closed their eyes during instrumental parts and bobbed up and down in perfect synchronisation!
It was such a nice concert and a huge change from the DJ Fresh gig, Michael definitely appeals to the older audience so for both concerts last week I didn't fit into the normal age group!! If you're lucky enough to be going to a festival this year I think he's making the rounds so make sure you try to get down and watch him, he is truly worth a watch and a rightful winner of the BBC Sound of 2012! This was my favourite song from the night:
Last night was very good fun, we got to the Firestation about 8 which felt weird as usually I'm going there for a night out at midnight! As soon as we got in there we were surrounded by kids, I never realised how popular DJ Fresh is with the teenage community so the atmosphere was quite strange as we waited for the gig to start.
The concert was basically called Fresh Live which meant it was more than just a DJ playing their songs and having a little dance on stage. DJ Fresh was at the back playing the tunes and you had a male rapper and a female singer to do all of the vocal parts for each of his songs.
I thought I'd only know the songs that I posted here but every single song started to us screaming about how much we loved the song, DJ Fresh has done some classics I didn't even realise were his! The singers were so good and it felt so much more interesting than just dancing to the songs as you would if you were just clubbing.
All in all a very good gig, I think it would be even better to watch late at night in a festival tent as the atmosphere was a little young in Bournemouth! I'm off for a Pizza Express tonight and my lovely little sister comes down to Bournemouth on Sunday to see Michael Kiwanuka, this week has been full of gigs! Have a lovely weekend everyone!
