*james*
01-04-2004, 08:48
Ok, so, I've seen a few gigs, but nothing like this one.
it was all going well, for a couple of songs. then it all went wrong. my friend and i have a theory gathered from stuff she said and what progressed, that she must have dropped some pills backstage, as she came on all happy and relaxed, but slowly lost all focus, songs would mesh into one another as she forgot how to play them or what the words were, she played one 10minute song at the piano ending with some deranged adlib ending and her saying that 'now the audience hates me' and getting the house lights turned up so we couldn't see her. some bloke came up behind her on stage and did the fingers in the ribs thing to her aswell, and scared the hell out of her!
and she just lost the plot... songs ended up being 30 seconds long then she would just stop and start something else. it was like watching a drunk mate play in their bedroom. and the crowd started getting annoyed, and some mad girl kept crying out that Cat Power was fantastic, until some american guy told her to '********* shut up!'. then finally, with all the house lights up and her sort of playing random snips of songs she annonced that 'the shows over... it has been for some time...' then a standing ovation, then we left as she was semi mobbed by a few people then staggered off.
i have never seen anything like it. really, when you get down to it, it was such a letdown, as by rights she should be utterly captivating, but last night, she was really just.... dull.
j
it was all going well, for a couple of songs. then it all went wrong. my friend and i have a theory gathered from stuff she said and what progressed, that she must have dropped some pills backstage, as she came on all happy and relaxed, but slowly lost all focus, songs would mesh into one another as she forgot how to play them or what the words were, she played one 10minute song at the piano ending with some deranged adlib ending and her saying that 'now the audience hates me' and getting the house lights turned up so we couldn't see her. some bloke came up behind her on stage and did the fingers in the ribs thing to her aswell, and scared the hell out of her!
and she just lost the plot... songs ended up being 30 seconds long then she would just stop and start something else. it was like watching a drunk mate play in their bedroom. and the crowd started getting annoyed, and some mad girl kept crying out that Cat Power was fantastic, until some american guy told her to '********* shut up!'. then finally, with all the house lights up and her sort of playing random snips of songs she annonced that 'the shows over... it has been for some time...' then a standing ovation, then we left as she was semi mobbed by a few people then staggered off.
i have never seen anything like it. really, when you get down to it, it was such a letdown, as by rights she should be utterly captivating, but last night, she was really just.... dull.
j