[DID NOT ATTEND: May 6, 2020] Destroyer / Rosali
It was just over two years ago that Destroyer was the last show I saw before the pandemic shut everything down. So, Destroyer will always have a warm place in my heart because of that. When this show was announced, I immediately bought tickets for it.
Then, over the next few weeks, SIX other shows were posted for that very same night. Gogol Bordello, Sunflower Bean, Olivia Rodrigo (which sold out long before I could get a ticket), Lucius and Pup (which my son and I went to).
Pup was a big hit in my house and so we decided to go to that one.
I’m sure Dan and his team will be back for another tour in the not too distant future.
I saw Rosali open for Graham Coxon.
Here’s what I had to say about her in 2018
She is a Philadelphia-based singer songwriter with two albums out (her last album got some pretty glowing reviews).
She has a lovely voice which reminded me of Aimee Mann. … But the problem was that there were no hooks in her songs.
She also had very little stage presence. She stated as much, confessing that stage banter wasn’t her thing. No kidding. One time she asked if anyone watched the news today, after some mild boos, she didn’t follow it up. Every other time that she tuned, she was basically quiet. In fact, she never said her name, the most basic thing you do when tuning your guitar.
The other problem was her guitar. She was playing an electric guitar and was primarily playing slowly, picked notes. But the settings of this guitar–so clean and sharp–were not helping with her voice at all, which was pretty and rather quiet.
She needed either some echo or vibrato or even an acoustic guitar to let the music resonate more. She made a number of chord flubs which is no big deal but which really stood out since she was by herself and her guitar was so unforgiving.
I hope that her stage show has gotten better in the last four years, because I did really like her voice.
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