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36 Bido Lito! May 2015 Reviews nigh, those in attendance for the headliners – and the gig is by no means a sell-out – seem to be saying the same kind of things: “I can’t believe I’m seeing this live”, “I never thought this day would come” and other such rabid expulsions of fawning adoration to befit a music-smitten fanboy a third of most of their ages. Although of course it’s a great shame that Kaleidoscope never hit the heights of Floyd and co there’s a silver lining of sorts in that they can still get away with a low-key gig of such intimacy. Low-key is certainly the word – take for example the visual accompaniment to the set: quite literally a laptop slideshow of Google images of the band in their prime. There’s also the fact that there’s only one member of the original band onstage, alongside four far younger musicians: original leader Peter Daltrey, garbed in a dapper velvet blazer and cravat, to place him somewhere between the best Doctor Who never cast and an acid casualty Fagin. All that pales into significance after an opening rendition of Aries, however, Daltrey’s voice still as woozily beautiful as ever, and as he and his band – excellent musicians, it must be said – drift through the legends’ stellar catalogue with aplomb, the uncompromising psychedelia of Snapdragon, Music and other such outings holding their own alongside a simply epic Sky Children. With tributes paid to the late Cynthia Lennon and Daltrey’s evident love for Liverpool quite clearly reciprocated, it’s a truly heartening night; save, that is, for that aforementioned second problem: that the support’s small group of fans decide to chat loudly and inanely for the entirety of Kaleidoscope’s set. Though it’s clearly no fault of The Wicked Whispers, it’s infuriating, and frankly completely disrespectful that, were it not for the headliners’ magisterial brilliance, a transcendent night of psychedelia at its most phenomenal may have been blunted. GHOSTPOET Palaces – James Canty EVOL @ The Kazimier Paddy Clarke This evening The Kazimier seems very excited. Doors having just opened, there are plenty of people in the venue’s main space sipping beer and talking in hushed whispers. Something exciting is about to happen. The first artist of the evening is JAMES CANTY, whose guitar-driven solo musings provide foot tapping and head nodding across the board. The audience are appreciative and as the venue fills up the set comes to a close. After Canty, we have PALACES, who fill the room with reverbheavy music that inflates the crowd like air in balloons. They glide slickly through a set full of lovely moments and brilliant ambiances, and set the tone wonderfully for an evening of musical delights. Palaces are a band with an exciting future. After a short break there is darkness… voices Ghostpoet (Jack Thompson / m0nks.co.uk) howl and scream as a figure appears on stage. The figure is Obaro Ejimiwe aka GHOSTPOET, the man of the moment. What is initially striking about Ejimiwe is his stature: he is a big man and he commands the stage with a melodic brutality that is very exciting to watch. Without a moment for breath, Ghostpoet storms through the first couple of tracks from his new album Shedding Skin. At first his vocals are lost under a soundscape of guitar keyboards and bass but luckily this is quickly fixed and his soft, croaky, southern refrains become perfectly audible. Ghostpoet has previously mentioned an uncomfortable relationship with live performance but as he gets into the swing of his set this concept is hard to believe. Songs such as Off Peak Dreams and X Marks The Spot show why this is an artist on everybody’s musical radar. His music brings a poetic sweetness to the gritty painstaking routines of paying bills and going to work. The performance has moments of real intimacy with slow, musing tracks such as Be Right Back Moving House which grab the heart strings without resorting to crass clichés. It is clear to see the transformation that Ghostpoet has taken after his Mercury Award nomination a few years ago. There is a swaggering confidence about the man that slowly leaks into the wideeyed, energised Liverpool audience. As the evening progresses, tracks glide seamlessly into each other as Ghostpoet leads his musicians like a hip hop conductor. However, what is most striking about the performance is that this rapper is humble. Like some men who resemble their dogs, Ejimiwe is an artist who takes after bidolito.co.uk
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