Imogen Heap at Shepherds Bush, London UK

In this pic, Imogen is using the Roland ax-1 for voice sound effects. My dad will be proud when he sees this one!


Last night, Jassen and I were lucky enough to attend the Imogen Heap gig. All in all, it was a good performance, but on another note, the audience was pure and utter rubbish. You know the saying that one rotten apple spoils the whole barrel? Well, that was this case, especially during the two opening acts.



The first to appear was Zoe Keating from California. She is a cellist and did a most excellent job at what she does. She records the cello at the same time she is playing, since she is a one woman band, and it sounds beautiful. The crap part was that the audience were all talking and shite and it was hard to hear her and Jassen and I were the 2nd row centre!

Zoe made it a point to slyly remark on how loud the audience was, but they really couldnt take a hint. Granted it was only about 35-40% of the people being arseholes, it was just so disrupted. You could tell that Zoe was fed up with the audience on her 3rd song and when she left, the audience all clapped, but i think it was just because it was something to do. Half the people, im sure were sincere in their clapping.

Next was a guy named Jon Hopkins. He was a cross between Jonny from Radiohead and a DJ. I thought he was average and it made me feel my hurting feet and back quite a bit. FINALLY, at 925-930, Imogen took the stage. What a vibrant character. She had come out before each of the opening acts to support them, which i thought was super cool on her part.

(Imogen Heap aka Frampton Comes Alive remix)

Her songs are almost nearly as good if not better than on her albums and she has a talent for her voice. She did about the same thing as Zoe and really is a one-person band as well, but tonight, a few times, she had zoe come out as well as Jon and others to help her support her sound. There was also this rapper dude that came out and I had no clue as to who he was.



For the encore, Imogen came out in her dress that was used for her latest video that isnt out yet. She wanted an excuse to wear it again!



And a backview!

I'm still just a bit peeved at the audience, the people in front were annoying and you just knew they were complaining about how close we were to them(but its a concert people). There was a bunch of fcukin chatty birds behind us with quite atrocious laughters. They complained about the fact that Jassen was only there to take picture. Granted we did take over 100+ fotos, it isnt our issue that they werent quick enough to be in front of us(plus they were all short and probably couldnt see). Then one of the friends managed to squeeze next to me, and I had even less room, felt a bit sick and uneasy and the atmosphere was pretty much negative.

I commented on the Imogen myspace about the audience not being that great, and one person commented that it was rude of me to say that. Instead of being childish and commenting back on the myspace public forum, i sent her an email instead, so that was fun. People kinda suck, but there are some good ones out there. Sometimes I wish i was still as naive as I was when i was small, but I know that could never be me.

Am I that cynical? If that is the case,I need to tapper down.:-/