From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V7 #64 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Tuesday, September 14 2004 Volume 07 : Number 064 In This Digest: ----------------- Concert August 12th in Tivoli De Helling (Utrecht, Netherlands) [Edi Verm] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:55:35 +0200 From: Edi Vermaas Subject: Concert August 12th in Tivoli De Helling (Utrecht, Netherlands) It was more than five years ago that I discovered Sarah Slean on the internet. Preparing my trip to Canada in the spring of 1999. I was seeking some musical entertainment for the few days I would stay in Toronto. I found Sarah Slean's website and liked the song you could download: Twin Moon. I liked the song very much. That was the singer-songwriter I wanted to see in Toronto. Unfortunately miss Slean did not give lots of concerts that days. So I had to do it with Twin Moon and the other songs on her indie-CD. I bought the CD in the HMV store in the same street where her parents have their chocolate store (as I read some years later). And yesterday after five years (and two CD's later) the concert in venue De Helling in Utrecht, the town where I lived during my study at the local university. Sarah was the support act in a concert of Ron Sexsmith (never heard of, but normally I like the musical friends of Sarah, for example Hawksley Workman, who performed more than a year ago in another venue in Utrecht: Ekko). But of course Sarah was for me (and not only me) the real head act. The playlist was starting with Eliot and ending with Sweet Ones (the only song with support of the band, the rest was only Sarah: her voice, her hands and, of course, her personality). And, oh happy me, somewhere in the middle, Twin Moon, the song I know already for more then five years. Why do I love the song? Because it was the first song I heard from Sarah? I don't believe that. As a not native english speaking person I only hear the music and the voice, but I don't understand the words (at least not the first few times I listen to it). But I feeled the emotion, I recognized it. As every normal human being I had many ups in my life but also a reasonable number of downs. And the song remembered me of my first real period of depression during my study in Utrecht. Later, when I recognized fragments of the text, her words fitted perfect with my first impression of her music and the timbre of her voice. It's about the difficult times between youth and adulthood. When nobody understands you. Terribly sad because of little things (BTW: Sarah, you spelled my name wrong when you signed my concert ticket ;-). As you can think, I was very happy with the song. And not only me, also some young girls did know Twin Moon and had apparently similar feelings with that song. Later, listening to the other CD's of Sarah, I learned to appreciate other virtues of her. Experimenting with so many different music styles. Her perfection. Her own "cabaret" style. Also capable of making a hit (Sweet Ones). In her concert she showed in thirty minutes most of that virtues. As many of you already have said on this navy-soup list: she is really amazing in concert, lovely chatting between the songs and lots of attention for her fans after the concert. There were also some new songs for me (apparently not for the real hardcore fans) and I liked them also. I can't recover the whole playlist but I remember Pilgrim as a nice new song. It is worthwhile to mention that Sarah demonstrated her quality. In the beginning there where lot of loud voices in the back of the venue. But after the first three songs everyone stopped making noise, recognizing that in this support act there was happening something very special. So I had a very nice evening. And my family (wife, son and daughter-in-law) also enjoyed themselves with the excellent concert of Sarah, but also with that old man so adepted to that young lady... ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V7 #64 ******************************