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[15:53] Lior
We went out to see Lior play at The Spitz tonight. This was a Shona-organised event, I'm not really familiar with Lior, but she figured that for £8 it's got to be worth it dragging me along! You might know him as the talent behind This Old Love, a track that JJJ had on pretty high rotation last year (and which I "broke" my knee whilst listening to, riding home in the storm water drains...but that's another story) or perhaps Autumn Flow which made it into the Hottest 100 at position 43. I certainly had no real association of the name to the music before I went.
I'm certainly glad that I DID go. The Spitz is a nice, small venue - somewhat reminiscent of The Gypsy Bar or Tilleys back in Canberra - I doubt that you'd get more than 200 rammed into the wee attic that is the concert area (downstairs being a restaurant). The cosy venue provided a perfect match for the relaxed and personable gig that Lior played. I don't know if he's normally so interactive but he really had the crowd (me too) under his spell. Possibly this is because said crowd was something like 90% slightly inebriated Australians (he checked), and possibly he played to this by giving Albury a bit of a ribbing and generally slipping in little Australiana tidbits, but overall he just put on a great show that would have been appreciated by anyone who saw it!
Liors music is a blend of Mark Cohn-style lyrics with a Jeff Buckley-esque delivery, he's certainly got a good set of lungs on him. He has an Israeli background and he uses the musical heritage from that part of the world in a couple of his songs, specifically Bedouin Song and the closing "song" of the night, a Hebrew prayer. I'd highly recommend that you check him out if you get a chance.
[Posted at: 26/06/2006 23:53]