What can I say? This was an even-better show than last year's outdoor concert at Stubb's in Austin! It is quite an event playing Radio City, and Glen and his mates rose to the occasion, playing a two-hour, 10-minute set, with a 5-song encore.
The very-first song let everyone know it was going to be a special night: Glen walked out on stage alone with his beat-up guitar and sang 'Say it to me now' at the top of his voice -- away from the microphone. A few people even yelled "we can't hear!" before realizing he did this deliberately, like he was performing on a street corner (get it?). They ended the show by bringing out his opening act--the guy in the movie who sang at the dinner party -- to sing his song from the soundtrack, 'Gold.'
Here is what they sang in between:
2. Lies
3. This Low
4. The Moon
5. When Your Mind's Made Up
6. True*
7. On My Mind*
8. Falling Slowly
9. Leave (solo)
10. What Happens When the Heart Just Stops*--I'm paraphrasing
11. a Van Morrison cover
12. ???
13. then Marketa asks her sister to come up on stage for a duet of a song from the 1973 movie The Wicker Man, "Gently, Johnny."
14. the obligatory "Hoover Fixer-Upper Guy"
15. Happiness*
16. Once
Encores:
1. If You Want Me
2. Gold
3. Fitzcarraldo
4. Star, Star
5. and finally, they closed with an audience sing-along of Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic." (He always knows how to end a concert on a high).
>Have I had my fill of the 'Once' phenomenon now?? I just this week purchased my one-day ticket to September's Austin City Limits Music Festival, headlined by The Swell Season. Let that be your answer! (Whether you've had your fill reading about them is another question entirely ... the answer to which the foreignfilmguy has no interest in hearing).
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>>Two more female singer/songwriters to promote.<<
KATHLEEN EDWARDS -- truthfully, I'm more into her than her music (alt-country in a voice reminiscent of Iris DeMent), but she loves Austin and cats, and has an entertaining blog ... and she's another red-headed Canadian!! (see Sarah Harmer; Melissa auf der Mar).
(she's got that Cate Blanchett-look working for her, doesn't she??)
EDIE CAREY -- she came all the way from New England to Houston to perform at the very first 'house concert' I've ever attended, so of course I bought her cd. And she started her second set by asking: "Has anyone seen the movie Once?" before launching into "Falling Slowly."
