I probably wouldn't have booked this if I'd known I was going to end up booking others around it but I'm glad I did. An interesting singer witha history including lots of backing vocals and a spell signed to Motown. Surprisingly it was Carmelo who grabbed my attention as I hadn't heard of him but he was an excellent guitarist who played mostly acoustic and who would loop and switch between strumming picking and slide all within one song.
The setlist flowed nicely - Kiki dispensed with 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' second track but even that was a different take to her big hit version. Covers included a Neil Young (Harvest Moon), Leonard Cohen (Dance me (to the end of love)) and a Kate Bush (Running up that hill). I loved a couple of songs they did in the second half of the gig, 'She's Smiling Now' and 'Can't Fix the Maybe', the latter an up tempo countryish song.
She finished with 'I've got the music in me' and then an encore of 'Loving and Free' and 'Blackbird'.
Good show.
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