k.d. lang was great. 'Great' meaning the most number of standing ovations I've ever seen in the Esplanade. Not that I bothered to count though. Practically everyone was standing. It's really understandable why she was so well-received - she has the stage presence (she was wearing this black velvet bathrobe looking thing with many layers of white underneath which made her look rather big and, well, bear-like) and the voice which she so effortlessly controls. She got the most laughs when she attempted to flit like a butterfly (?). For her size, hmmmm, I felt the ground move beneath my feet. Of course I was also thinking that her huge fan base may be also due to what she stands for. Last night saw the largest gay audience I've ever seen for any show,apart from Eleanor Wong's Mergers and Wills.
Well at least we heard her sing during the concert as compared to listening to her do her mic/sound check while we ate dinner. She yodels funnily, and it got quite grating after a while.
The thing about doing gigs, I think, is that it happens really fast you have so little impression of what happened. And considering that we didn't actually have idea how her songs sounded like, it felt a lot like downloading a song and deleting it after you've heard it once. Makes you feel like actually going out and buying her album - Hymns of the 49th Parallel.
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