Just back from seeing The Magic Numbers at the Barrowlands with Julie and Michael. We all really enjoyed it, although unfortunately Alison, Morag and Colin weren't able to make it as planned. Anyway, the Numbers were lovely - they seemed to be having a great time too. I was quite surprised at how loud and "rock-y" they came over, since they sound much more mellow on CD.
They played various songs from their original album plus several from their new one. This hasn't got great reviews so far but, apart from one slightly waily song near the end, I really liked the new ones. They also had a slow one that segued into Kate Bush's "Running up that hill" at one point and then back out again. I'm not sure if this was deliberate or whether they just got confused by the fact that they're also singers with lots of wild hair and had a temporary identity crisis...
They finished the main part of the set with "Love Me Like You", which is my favourite and, as Michael pointed out, the most raucous. Although they finished the concert with one that started out fairly quiet and slow and then ramped up into something that was causing isolated outbreaks of ceilidhing around the hall, finally ending up as a kind of rockstar Taize chant that just got wilder and wilder.
They were very keen on everyone singing along and we were even trained up in a couple of lines to make sure we joined in properly. A bit like graduation ceremonies only much less tedious and with more exciting lighting. Anyway, one of the audience-participation numbers was a song called "Anima Sola" which doesn't appear on either album, but you can download it from their myspace page. Go on, go on, go on, GO ON! (It's very pretty).
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