The Night Belongs to Beverley
Hammersmith Apollo was positively fizzing by the end of the evening last night (14th April 2005) as Beverley Knight put on yet another fantastic performance. For most singers it would have been a performance of a lifetime but I have now seen Beverley 3 times and she does it every single time!! What makes it even more incredible is that while she is thrilling up and down the auditory range and plundering hidden depths of the soul, she is also running around the stage, dancing, clapping, shaking her body and not once in the entire evening does she put in a duff note.
Beverley took us on an odyssey that took us through rock, funk, pop and soul. She is adept at whatever style she takes on but even though the crowd went mental fo final track 'Come As You Are', the tracks that she has written and that come from her heart are the ones that send the tingles down my spine. When she was hitting unbelieveable pitch perfect high notes I was goose pimpled all over, quite simply breathtaking.
She played all the tracks you would expect, Shoulda Woulda Coulda, Tea and Sympathy, et al. She also did a few covers 'Take a little Bit of My Heart', and in the middle of 'Made it Back' she introduced Luther Vandros' classic 'Never Too Much'. Even more incredible was her performance in the encore of McCartney's 'let It Be'
There is not one person who would not be amazed who went to see her live, of that I'm quite certain. Everyone recognises talent when its out of the top drawer.... if you ever get a chance to go and see Beverley live then JUST GO - do not think twice, you do not know what you are missing.
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DFA Records: Holiday Mix 2005
DFA Records: Holiday Mix 2005
