While the Portuguese band David Fonseca They acted as well-deserved opening acts and calmed the long-awaited wait, My nerves were increasing and I wished with all my heart that the sensations I had would not betray me and leave me in the arms of disappointment and that this concert would be a simple performance., one more, in the newly named capital of the Mediterranean.
They comment that with Under the iron sea (his second) Part of the credibility they had formed as an alternative rock group got out of hand., with just a first job, And what a good fault those macro tours had for this., in huge stadiums, where maybe, someone, intended (what you want) direct them as best sellers.
Now I understand everything. Nothing could be further from reality. Now I understand the group's turn with this third album, how they have redirected their sound and their live shows, returning a little to their origins in small and medium-sized venues and demonstrating that they are clear that they can and want to be in this music business..
I don't know what words to use to describe the concert. Keane in Razzmatazz. This has been a concert to delight all his followers (although also to his detractors). A special night, magic, where group and public have given everything, mutually.
The concert was spectacular. With a packed room, with the sign of no tickets for a long time and, as i said before, with a totally surrendered audience and with a most natural staging: without fanfare, no shift screens, without unnecessary accessories on stage and focusing all attention on the band and its instruments.
The lovers are losing sounds and I take a deep breath. The first song and it's already much better than the one on the album. The live performance makes the song incredibly good. My doubts about the new sound dissipate and I really begin to be aware of who these guys called Keane and what are they trying to do tonight?.
one after another, without hesitation, with forcefulness and security, The songs have been taking center stage and throughout the evening the room has been a clamor to which we have succumbed and where the unbeatable and surprising voice of Tom Chaplin has been perfect. Power, sound and nuance in musical themes that we are all very familiar with and that, live, has been able to enhance, take one more turn, making them bigger, louder, little musical hymns.
The time has come, the band disappears, Mr. Chaplin hangs up his guitar and Bend and break starts to ring. The audience falls silent and I have the feeling that we all think the same. This can't be. The song is naked and is only covered by the chords and his voice. The song is more musical than ever, bigger, more powerful, more song.
The band reappears and with it I realize that even this supposed improvisation is studied in detail., fully synchronized, perfect, without giving respite to error and where Chaplin does not take a break, breaking with the image that I had created so much of him., like a group. Good proof of this is the energy, the walks around the stage and the constant contact with the public, the waste and the color of his shirt. At the beginning of the concert it was red and it ended up completely black (of sweat, clear).
It is not very difficult to realize that Perfect Symmetry wins a lot live. The reality of the live show is very pleasant since the songs are not so loaded, full of unnecessary decorations, Although it is true that they do not look bad either, live they lose the superfluous and where they really maintain the basic structure of the recording studio.
And like everything has an end, this concert, unfortunately, also. I don't want to abuse the excitement and high that the concert has left me and I wouldn't like to stop being objective..
Sunday night special, with almost 1:45 minutes of perfect Keane high.
I want to conclude by saying that anyone who believes that Keane is a group for fifteen-year-olds is wrong.. Whoever thinks that their followers are just hysterical girls is wrong again and for those who think that they are the commercial group on duty, with no more pretensions than to sell records, I can only tell them to go to a concert.
