Nov 22, 2008 Posted by Herko on Nov 22, 2008 in Personal notes | 0 comments

Partying with Róisín Murphy

Yes­ter­day we went to a con­cert of Róisín Mur­phy in Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall. Róisín is the for­mer Moloko singer. We saw her before twice: once as part of Moloko, and once as part of a Groove Armada con­cert. Both times she brought great energy and a tight per­for­mance to the stage, so our expec­ta­tions and hopes were high.

The show started a bit slow and tame, like she didn’t really feel like per­form­ing but was doing so any­way. Still, her voice is flaw­less, her band is incred­i­ble, and her back­ground singers are awe­some, so even then it was still a good con­cert. Not great tho.

Inter­mis­sion

Then there was an awk­ward inter­mis­sion, about a half hour into the show. This took over 5 min­utes, dur­ing which some bits and pieces of music were played, and the band gath­ered to dis­cuss –appar­ently. Because after the inter­lude she came back with a vengeance.

She left the com­mer­cial easy lis­ten­ing tunes for what they were, and played some of her new tracks. With a new energy, a new vibe, and an appar­ent love to per­form them, she found the way into the hearts and ears of the crowd. Every­body on stage seemed to like this response to an exper­i­men­tal set, and they showed their appre­ci­a­tion by adding more and more energy and drama to the sounds and performance.

Dress up Diva

At one stage Róisín even dressed up in two inter­twined inflat­able dum­mies. Her stage dresses are stuff of leg­end already, as she changes clothes about 10 times dur­ing a show, one out­fit even more extrav­a­gant then the other.

I was think­ing that Stephen Fry should write a musi­cal star­ring ms. Mur­phy. That would be cool

All in all an enter­tain­ing and a wee bit exper­i­men­tal show. We thor­oughly enjoyed it

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