So, as I said in a previous post, it’s been three years since I last met Nerina (and she was doing a gig in the infamous King Tuts Wah Wah Hut but didn’t know that at the time) but decided at the 11th hour that I was going to see her…well who knows when the next time could be, right?
So yeah, on Monday the 2 cd version of her album The Graduate (read my review here) dropped through my door on release day(Play.com did something right!!) and ended up being played all day and added to discogs.com too. Anyhow, Wednesday came and headed off to Oran Mor. Now I knew roughly where it was (It’s a converted church, on the corner of Byres Road and Great Western Road, across from the Botanic Gardens..you get the idea on my directional skills :p) So I’d never been here so didn’t really know what to expect. Anyway, got through and first stop is the merchandise table where I bought 2 cds (the theory being if I left it till the end of the night then there would be none left) and then took up position for the rest of the night. (Note: don’t stand next to a speaker. Speaker + music = deafness)
So her warm up was Jonathan Jeriamiah who wasn’t actually bad (I don’t understand why people choose to miss the support acts at gigs….really I don’t) and played a number of tracks.
So after him and a short break while the stage was set up, the main event started. Opening track was The Right Side which got everyone in the mood (not that I think anyone needed any encouragement) onto Everything’s Illuminated! Then she started the banter that was to continue throughout the night. From then on she played Geek Love before being left on stage by the other two members of her band to play God Of Small Things (available on her Junebug EP and as a bonus track on the iTunes version of the album) before geting the guys back to give perform the forthcoming single Real Late Starter. Another bit of banter where she claimed that she ‘tends to get a bit bored’ and she hoped ‘her husband hadn’t heard that coment’ and varied a version of It Starts before performing When Did I Become Such a Bitch. This was followed by Everybody’s Gone To War, which had the venue singing along to as she donned the electric guitar was the second time that night.
After this, Nerina returned to the piano for I Don’t Want To Go Out. The final song of the night was a medley of songs by Elton John (this after an explanation that she had tried to edit her Wikipedia page to say she was the illegitimate love child of Elton and Kiki Dee…which lasted 24 hours before someone changed it so this was what she would have grown up with). After this she left the stage with the band only for the chanting to start. After a few minutes the threesome returned for her to play It Was Me and finished on a high with Sophia. At the end of this she stood up to a cheering venue which ended in tears.
Deciding that there was no point in trying to leave when everyone else was, I hung back. And I’m glad I did as Nerina came out to signed CDs….well, I’d paid my ticket so I was passing up an opportunity.
All in all, it was a great night and excellent value for money. I just hope that she won’t leave it another 3 years before she’s back in Glasgow
Regards
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