Live Review - Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour

Canadians in Toronto were lucky enough to witness one of the first nights of Lady Gaga's new tour - The Monster Ball and roving pop reporter Will-W was there to catch all the action as it unfolded.  You can read the entire review over on Will-W's amazing blog - Pop Maven.  It's an interesting read most definitely and is already building a huge amount of excitement in me for when Our Lady of Gaga will bring the show to London's O2 Arena.  

Will has also provided the following live clips of "Bad Romance" and "Monster" for EQ readers to enjoy!  It's like Blond Ambition all over again for the year 2010!

And here's some other YouTube clips I've dug up - more to come when I find them...

Speechless | Dance In The Dark (intro)

Imogen Heap Gives Fans An Intimate Treat - Heaptweetup

Imogen Heap gets intimate with her fans at last nights London Heaptweetup

After having a most unruly day at work, a small ray of sunshine made it's way through the dark clouds hanging over me in the way of a "heaptweetup".  What is this you ask?!  Well basically Imogen Heap invited all her Twitter friends to come to a swanky London cocktail bar where she personally played tracks from her new album "Ellipse" via her laptop for the audience with an arousing Q&A in-between each song.

To be honest, it really was WAY more than I expected.  I pretty much had visions of someone coming out on stage to welcome the crowd, introduce Imogen, play the songs and then have a short Q&A afterwards. 

WRONG.

What transpired was a very intimate evening with Imogen Heap as you were escorted to a private swanky bar (which only held about 50 people), given free drinks and were greeted by none other than Imogen Heap herself - who gave a very chatty and witty commentary throughout the entire night.  What was surprising was that Imogen encouraged us all to make ourselves comfortable on the floor as she did, sitting with the crowd as she played us the new tracks and getting to experience the songs through our ears.  If there ever was an uber fan event for Imogen Heap - this was it my EQs.

Live Review - Lady Gaga at London's Brixton Academy, July 14 2009

All photos via Kate Green's flickr page - go check it out and leave her a comment...she took some great shots.

After almost a year of London club appearances, chart topping singles and gradual tabloid build-up frenzy, Lady Gaga performed her first London headline show to 5000 eager and sweaty fans last night at London's O2 Brixton Academy. 

Blonde wigs galore, thunder bolt eye-makeup abundent, homeade disco sticks and general Gaga wannabe craziness filled the auditorium whilst Hyper Crush and Gary Go warmed-up the exciteable crowd.  Clock turned 9:30pm and Lady Gaga took to the stage opening with her current UK single "Paparazzi" adorned with a disco ball dress that shined beaming rays of lights out in every direction to the audience - all of whom had their phones and cameras held high in the air to get a shot of the eccentric hit-maker.

It's interesting to see how Lady Gaga has opened up as an artist this past year since our early interview with her in July 2008.  Emerging onto the pop music scene as almost a mysterious chantuese in gigantic dark sunglasses, rectangular football-player shoulder pads in red satin and PVC before "Just Dance" dominated the world charts, Lady Gaga now seems to be much more in-your-face, child-like and yet uberly aware of her superstar status now that the world has fallen charmed to her quirky brand of unavoidable pop and homeade glittery costumes.

Listen To New Pandering & The Golddiggers "Oops Do You Love Me"

Pandering & The Golddigers have recently put up a new track on their MySpace called "Oops Do You Love Me" that is, as you would expect, beyond brilliant - I can't quite get enough of it and am waiting ever so patiently in the wings for the disco triplets to release their debut album.

The group told me that the track is going to be out on iTunes very shortly and they even are shooting a music video to it - tre exciting! 

Pump up your shotguns and shoot glitter everywhere...Pandering & The Golddiggers are coming EQs...

Live Review & New Video - Patrick Wolf At Electric Ballroom June 1st 2009

 

Patrick Wolf.  Rock God.  Pop Culture Icon.  Man Of Le Glam.

Last Monday night I had the pleasure of attending my first ever Patrick Wolf show at the Electric Ballroom in London's trendy Camden Town.  In the past few years, I've become somewhat fascinated by Patrick Wolf.  His sense of style and deep voice captivated me when his album "The Magic Position" was released.  Patrick was back then, a flaming red-headed pixie man, not afraid to wear bright colours and look moody, and I loved it.  Combine that with a soundtrack of quirky beats and use of unusual instruments creates for just pure artistry.  I kinda took a back-seat with Patrick Wolf back then and watched with a silent curiosity whenever he appeared on UK music shows - singing his signature songs "Accident & Emergency" and "The Magic Position".  He is a mysterious man, agreed, but above all else, he is a true musician who has captured my heart and ears.  Missing him perform this show in London was just, well quite unthinkable.

Having had an opportunity to interview Patrick last December, one thing I realised about him is that he's a deep individual, not afraid of experirimentation and most certainly not afraid to rebel.  This was most certainly the case at the Electric Ballroom.  To my satisfaction, he graced the stage wearing an outrageous signature red outfit and the new bleached blonde do.  The spirit and stage prescence of a young David Bowie was just oozing off him.  He had the swagger of a rock god during "Damaris" and the mystique of a cosmic flower child during "Libertine".  His performance of "Vulture" was purely electrifying - as shocking and undeniabley as rad as the song itself.  My favorite moment of the night was when he sang the one song I was dying to hear, "Who Will" - my personal favourite track from his stellar new folk/rocktronica album "The Bachelor".