When
Caro Emerald was back in the UK in September 2013
she announced an massive arena tour for March
2014 which sold out straight away but then soon
had to be rescheduled to October 2014 due to Caro
Emerald falling pregnant and needing to take some
much needed time off to start her family, however
it seems like that time has flown by as tonight
I headed down to the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff
to check out the third night of Caro Emerald’s
lengthy headline UK Arena tour.
Now im not used to going to all seated concerts,
I prefer to stand myself so I have the freedom
to go to the bars when I want or generally stand
wherever I want however after tonight’s
show I have to say that I am more up for seated
concerts as everything was professionally organised
tonight, pretty much every seat in the venue was
full and everyone was ready to have a good time
and be entertained.
The
one and only support act of the night was a young
and beautiful lady called Kris Berry and she had
a good 45minute set tonight and during that time
she played a number of sweet and soulful songs
where her flawless vocals shined throughout, she
was backed up by a solid backing band which featured
Nick Croes on guitar, Andret Tijsma on Bass and
Bas Bouma on drums and they did a great job of
complimenting Kris Berry and her wonderful vocals.
The
songs that Kris Berry played tonight were so relaxed
and peaceful sounding, they always flowed for
a long time but never at any point did things
start to get boring as Kris Berry has such a wonderful
voice which happened to draw you in from the very
start, the set came to an end with ‘Rocket
Man’ a song which was written for the tour
and finished the set off nicely.
After a good 45minute break it was the time for
what everyone had been waiting for as Caro Emerald
and her amazingly talented 8 piece band were due
to take to the stage and in no time Caro’s
band took to the
stage playing away and moments later Caro Emerald
appeared backlit from behind a screen which soon
dropped as she opened with the quite serious and
moody sounding ‘I Belong To You’,
as soon as the screen dropped Caro Emerald revealed
her true beauty dressed fully in red and looking
as stunning as ever.
As the set progressed Caro Emerald really got
into things along with her backing band she played
her way through the likes of ‘Coming Back
As A Man, ‘Tangled Up’, ‘Pack
Up The Louie’, ‘That Man’, ‘Paris’
and so many other amazing songs from her back
catalogue and the
great thing was that during each and every one
of these songs Caro was smiling so much and putting
so much energy into her vocals and dancing whilst
her band played solidly.
In stylish fashion Caro Emerald left the stage
a couple of times for a much needed outfit change
which fitted the themes of the next few songs
of the set and what was amazing was that when
Caro left the stage her band continued to entertain
and they pretty much played constantly for a good
hour and a half and were at the top of their game
throughout.
Towards
the end of the set Caro played her more famous
and upbeat material such as ‘Liquid Lunch’,
‘Back It Up’, ‘Stuck’,
‘Dr Wanna Do’ and ‘A Night Like
This’ and throughout all of these songs
everyone got up from their seats and sung, danced
and clapped along to the catchiness of these songs,
you even had people dancing down the aisle giving
it their all.
The show came to a close after Caro Emerald did
a little speech to the crowd telling them that
she is going to finish the night with a cover
of Mama Cass’s ‘Dream A Little Dream
Of Me’ because it was the first song she
performed in public at the age of 11 and was made
her realise that she wanted to
be a singer and the cover was beautiful and left
everyone who was up dancing like their lives depended
on it seconds ago back sat in their seats taking
in every emotional word that Caro belted out.
Caro Emerald is easily one of the most talked
about female artists at the moment and it is easy
to see why as it’s not every day that an
artist comes around who appeals to pretty much
every age range, as looking around tonight there
were people in their early teens right up to oap’s
and everyone seemed to know the lyrics and easily
left the venue with a massive smile on their face
so it is safe to say that Caro Emerald came and
delivered the goods tonight and the only downside
is that I would imagine it will be a long time
until Caro Emerald is back in the UK as it’s
been a good 18 months since she released her second
album ‘The Shocking Miss Emerald’,
which means it must nearly be time for work to
commence on album number 3.
Kris Berry 4/5
Caro Emerald 5/5
Review By Trigger
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