I found myself once more at St John's Church in Coventry to see a band I hadn't even heard of until last month. I loved two tracks on Robert Plant's new album and found they had both been written by Sparhawk and Parker who are the main members of Low and then I found that Low were performing locally as one of only a few UK appearances.
The support was a singer songwriter Paul Thomas Saunders who had a band as well. The songs were interesting but I couldn't take to his singing. He was over-ambitious in trying to sing beyond his capabilities.
Low kicked off with a simple and attractive song appropriately about the saving of souls and then hit me with the two songs from Plant's album, 'Silver Rider' and 'Monkey'. Monkey in particular was exhilirating, it was a fuzzy, rasping version of the song.
Right from the start I was bowled over by Mimi Parker's voice. She mainly did backing singing and her voice meshed brilliantly with Alan Sparhawk's but whether she was leading or backing there was a quality and a strength to the voice that had echoes of Grace Slick.
Of course there was much of the set that I didn't know yet every track had something about it and some songs were outstanding. There was one that started with the words 'Cry me a river' (it's not yet released apparently where Mimi took lead vocals and one directly after that 'Lullaby' which again had brilliant lead vocals from her and great guitar as well.
They finished the set with 'Murderer' and then came out for an encore but couldn't decide what to play for a while. Eventually three tracks were selected and played.
I've now got some more albums to buy and enjoy and hopefully I'll get to see Low again.
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