Memorable Concert

My blogging prompt for today: Have you been to a memorable concert? What made it stand out to you? 

If you are following along with my blog (thank you, I shall pay you later), you will see from my Musical Madness post that I do not attend concerts.  I managed one many years ago and nothing since. 

I therefore thought this blog post would be brief, but then I remembered I have attended another one!  This time, it was not what you’d consider a traditional arena style concert. 

The singer is a small (less-known, not as in height), independent singer.  She performs in intimate venues across the UK.  I say UK, but I really mean England.  She has never made it across the border to Scotland.  I’ve berated her a few times for her lack of Northern touring.   

Friends have seen her live a few times, so we decided we’d make the effort and arrange to tootle South for one of her intimate gigs.  Typically, they are around 200 people in a small venue; tables; food; wine.  Ideal. 

And then Covid arrived, and like the rest of the planet, we turned to hermits for a while.  Fast forward a year or so and she restarted her ‘tour’, but this time on-line.   

It was perfect.  She sat with her band in a recording studio; everyone tuned in via the magic of the internet.  We also Zoomed with our friends to feel a little more joined-in.   

We sat in our house with the music on the big TV, us comfortably relaxing on our sofa, and our friends joining us at the side of the TV on a laptop.  We had a great time singing along together.   

It did get a little confusing sometimes as our feed seemed to be a few seconds behind our friend’s feed.  Which meant our friends would chime out loud, “Oh, we love this one”, while I was still boldly singing the last few bars of the previous song. 

Good times

#22/50 FiftyIn50 Blogging Challenge