I have seen John Grant a number of times over the past few years and I was keen to see how the new album translated live. It wasn’t a show that I was desperate to see but, went along more out of interest than compulsion.
Two days later, the more I look back at the show, the more special I think it was. Two hours on stage with a full band, the new songs are a refreshing new direction in style. ‘The Queen of Denmark’ compositions now there as the bedrock of the solo catalogue.
John remains full of passion, anger and compassion and his strength is that he can channel that into his music, with quite startling results. The more electronic feel to aspects of his music feels a refreshing new start and someone moving forward.
A six song encore included the Czar’s ‘Paint the Moon’. it would be great one day if John could revisit some more material from the Czars but, we were grateful for ‘paint the moon’ on the night anyway.
Lap Top still missing but, an amazing show that should live with everyone who was there for quite sometime.
