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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Kate Voegele - The Academy, Dublin
9th September, 2011
Kate Voegele first came to my attention playing the timid and lovable Mia on popular teen-drama, One Tree Hill. Voegele won the role of Mia shortly after the release of her first album, Don't Look Away, in 2007. Since then, she has released two more albums (she's currently touring with her latest, Gravity Happens) and is still a regular feature on One Tree Hill.
This was only her second time performing in Ireland (she played The Academy 2 last year) and it was definitely a case of practise makes perfect for Voegele. Having witnessed her début Irish performance, I was more than impressed to find that her vocals sounded even better the second-time round and in the bigger of the two venues.
Kate performed a 14-song acoustic set including a more than incredible performance of Britney Spears' Till The World Ends and a selection of some of her best tracks from the three albums. Her performance of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah was simply breath-taking and instantly brought the crowd to a standstill.
Voegele's crowd interaction was simply terrific, making sure to acknowledge those with banners while also managing to maintain eye contact with what seemed like every member of the crowd throughout the night. Voegele received a huge cheer of approval when she substituted the word 'Darlin' with 'Dublin' during her rendition of one of her newest songs, Say You're Mine. The singing and songwriting actress mentioned that she very much hopes to play a show in Ireland again very soon!
The Go! Team - The Academy, Dublin
Published: 8th March, 2011 - http://www.meg.ie/the-go-team-at-the-academy/
Having been a fan of the band since I first discovered their music about 6 years ago whilst watching US teen drama One Tree Hill (who says these shows don’t give back!), I was more than a little bit excited when it was announced that The Go! Team would, once again, be playing a show in Dublin.However, despite my near decade-long membership of the fandom, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the gig as I'd been told their live gigs were completely different from their recorded material. As soon as Ninja (lead singer) bounced (literally) out onto the stage any and all doubts I had about these guys not living up to the hype completely evaporated. To say that they have a great stage presence feels like grossly underestimating their sheer stage-power.
The show was a mixture of jumping around, crowd-interaction, sing-a-longs and just pure, pure energy filled goodness. Managing to switch around who played what instrument (and, at times, who sung lead vocals) numerous times in the most flawless way possible, it was hard to single out which song was the best of the night although a special mention has to go to Huddle Formation as it was the song that first got me interested in the band. The set-list was the perfect mixture of both old and brand-new songs even managing to incorporate using a typewriter on stage as an instrument and a set of steel-drums. Formed way back in 2000, even without knowing this, it's quite evident that this Brighton-based sextet are veterans of the stage and will continue to make great energy-filled music for many years to come.
Having been a fan of the band since I first discovered their music about 6 years ago whilst watching US teen drama One Tree Hill (who says these shows don’t give back!), I was more than a little bit excited when it was announced that The Go! Team would, once again, be playing a show in Dublin.However, despite my near decade-long membership of the fandom, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the gig as I'd been told their live gigs were completely different from their recorded material. As soon as Ninja (lead singer) bounced (literally) out onto the stage any and all doubts I had about these guys not living up to the hype completely evaporated. To say that they have a great stage presence feels like grossly underestimating their sheer stage-power.
The show was a mixture of jumping around, crowd-interaction, sing-a-longs and just pure, pure energy filled goodness. Managing to switch around who played what instrument (and, at times, who sung lead vocals) numerous times in the most flawless way possible, it was hard to single out which song was the best of the night although a special mention has to go to Huddle Formation as it was the song that first got me interested in the band. The set-list was the perfect mixture of both old and brand-new songs even managing to incorporate using a typewriter on stage as an instrument and a set of steel-drums. Formed way back in 2000, even without knowing this, it's quite evident that this Brighton-based sextet are veterans of the stage and will continue to make great energy-filled music for many years to come.
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