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A review from 5D Music & Theatre writer Maria Robertson.
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Having seen this band 3 times before, and having loved many of their songs for many years, I was keen to attend this concert. They did not disappoint.
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To start with they treated us to two support acts, first up was Anni Pohto a lady with a keyboard and a lovely voice. She took a selfie with the audience to “make my friends back in Finland jealous”. Then it was the turn of D3lta (@ThisIsD3lta) from Greece. He was a dimpled singer songwriter who plays guitar and keyboard and has an amazing voice, his band was a guitarist from Greece and another 2 chaps from Brighton who presumably are just playing these UK gigs with him. His song Strange became a radio hit and he’s just released a new single Happy Out of Love which he closed his marvellous wee set with. We also got Hello, Hey You (“get your flashlights out!”) and Punching Bag, for which we were encouraged to sing back to him “never change”. The audience loved him and I really hope we hear a lot more of him, he has brilliant lyrics and catchy melodies, not to mention his contagious big grin!
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The atmosphere when Scouting For Girls came on stage was electric, this was a sold out gig with the audience ranging in ages and demographic from a quick scan. Certainly jumping along to Michaela Strachan and its lyrics about Wacaday I was next to girls who would not have been alive early enough to know who she or was! The set started with Missing Part from the new album and varied through new and old songs, in a most pleasing combination.
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Part way through the evening they changed to an acoustic set up with a smaller drum kit at the front of the stage, just the 3 original band members: Roy, Greg and James. Roy showed us the new album cover, The Place Where We Used to Meet, and explained that the house in the picture is his childhood home, and he showed us his bedroom window (top right) which was where he wrote many of their songs and where the 3 of them would meet to practice. When they were starting out they could not afford any posh electronic gadgets or amps so they called themselves Power Cut. They played 3 songs in this original format: I’m Not Over You, It’s Not About You and The Luckiest Boy in the World, which is on their latest album.
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Apparently they would prefer not to play 1+1 but it is their most requested song and so they did, and gosh we enjoyed it! Then it was Posh Girls, and us screaming out the “boys at school” in the appropriate times. There was a lot of audience participation, from asking if we could be louder than Edinburgh the previous night, or if the left side of the room could be louder than the right, to clapping, or waving the lights on our phones. They proclaimed us the 5th member of the band, after introducing us to Nick Tsang on guitar. At some points the noise and heat in the room were almost unbearable but still we pushed forward and jumped and clapped and just had an awesome time. It was one of those fantastically unforgettable nights that will stick in everyone’s memory for a long time. The contented happy faces filing out the room at the end were testament to this.
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Tickets for their 2024 tour are selling quick and you would be a fool not to get one!
Further information: D3lta – https://www.instagram.com/thisisd3lta/ and Scouting for Girls: https://www.scoutingforgirls.com/
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Maria Robertson is the Chief Music & Theatre Writer for the 5D Pop Culture Website and provides reviews & coverage of local Aberdeen music & theatre gigs. She’s an experienced writer for numerous sources and is a self-confessed live gig addict ever since seeing The Counting Crows at the Barrowlands in 1994.
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