I ended up going down to the Holly Golightly show at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto this past Sunday. There's not much I can say in terms of a formal review. I'm relatively new to her music but I enjoyed her set immensely. This show was her debut Toronto appearance and on the whole she delivered the goods. Visually, the show was a bust as Holly and her bandmates were pretty sedantary throughout the set; in addition, at the beginning of the set, she instructed someone to turn down the stage lights, to a point where I just found it too dark[it didn't seem appropriate to use my flash on my camera, and the photos I took turned out to be a bust]. Otherwise, her music spoke for itself. Her music straddled the lines between garage, blues, country and rockabilly, albeit at a much more languid pace overall than I anticipated. Her guitar playing was rudimentary but was compensated by the more-than-competent musicianship of her bandmates. Vocally subdued throughout the evening, she didn't really cut loose until the last song during the encore. There were echoes of Buddy Holly and Patsy Cline combined with a more threatening garage/blues influence strewn throughout the music, which was a truly intoxicating blend. Later on in the set, there were some lineup changes, whereby the drummer took keyboard duties and the guitarist took on drumming duties. I still can't believe that such a dark-haired British lovely like Ms. Golightly, unassumingly dressed that evening, could create such sinister music. She was very gracious to us that evening and we got her to come back for an encore, including an intriguing song called "Virtually Happy", which was most notable in my opinion for straying from the 3-chord blues progression used on the majority of her songs. Simply sublime.
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Wikked Lil' Grrrls
I ended up going down to the Holly Golightly show at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto this past Sunday. There's not much I can say in terms of a formal review. I'm relatively new to her music but I enjoyed her set immensely. This show was her debut Toronto appearance and on the whole she delivered the goods. Visually, the show was a bust as Holly and her bandmates were pretty sedantary throughout the set; in addition, at the beginning of the set, she instructed someone to turn down the stage lights, to a point where I just found it too dark[it didn't seem appropriate to use my flash on my camera, and the photos I took turned out to be a bust]. Otherwise, her music spoke for itself. Her music straddled the lines between garage, blues, country and rockabilly, albeit at a much more languid pace overall than I anticipated. Her guitar playing was rudimentary but was compensated by the more-than-competent musicianship of her bandmates. Vocally subdued throughout the evening, she didn't really cut loose until the last song during the encore. There were echoes of Buddy Holly and Patsy Cline combined with a more threatening garage/blues influence strewn throughout the music, which was a truly intoxicating blend. Later on in the set, there were some lineup changes, whereby the drummer took keyboard duties and the guitarist took on drumming duties. I still can't believe that such a dark-haired British lovely like Ms. Golightly, unassumingly dressed that evening, could create such sinister music. She was very gracious to us that evening and we got her to come back for an encore, including an intriguing song called "Virtually Happy", which was most notable in my opinion for straying from the 3-chord blues progression used on the majority of her songs. Simply sublime.
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