Shawn Colvin live
The first thing that comes to mind when she walks on stage in the Handelsbeurs is: "she's older and smaller than I imagined she would be from her photographs". But then she starts playing (her own Martin signature model and the only guitar on stage tonight) in that very distinctive style of hers and that voice comes through and you know it's her allright.
She's all alone on stage, plays a good selection of tunes from the new album "These four walls" and asks the audience what songs they want to hear.
We get all our favourites: "Polaroids", "Mona Lisa", "Kill The Messenger". "Sonny" etc...
There's lots of onstage banter while she's tuning and detuning her guitar, including an amusing anecdote about Sting ("such a wanker").
She even comes back for an encore with a nice version of Neil Finn's "4 seasons in 1 day" and an amazing finger-picked version of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy".
All in all, a really nice concert from an amazing picker and storyteller.
Glad I got to see her after listening to her albums for so many years...
