Isobel Campbell - Lisboa Soundz

Here I’m sorry but I will have to be really mean as this must have been one of the most pathetic concerts I’ve seen in my life and sincerely it isn’t worth the trouble. Resuming, we had a full grown woman in her thirties acting as a little girl of 5, oh so god dam sweet that any idiot could see straight away it was highly cynical, the type of sweetness some women try to use to manipulate people with their oh I’m so sweet, don’t you think so? Her musicians didn’t smile the whole 30 minutes the concert must have lost and all the times she spoke with them smiling and giggling all so sweetly they didn’t even smile to her and most of the times didn’t even look to her. They played mechanically without any passion; she did back vocals or sang in duets with another vocalist, but mainly only the refrains.

I wonder why the act is called Isobel Campbell if she isn’t the main vocalist, she hardly plays instruments and she even gave us a rather peculiar moment, when we know she has more than a decade of shows on her back… She sat to play her violoncello her band started to play, she ran out of the stage, then returned sat down, her band began to play again but she rumbled through her staves trying to find the right page, then after 3 attempts from her band she finally began to play but then got lost again when she had to turn another page and turned 2 instead…

Basically it was a disaster and what surprised me more was there where actually people applauding and cheering her as if they where enjoying her performance and the little butterfly like runs to the mic to say thanks very low and run away from it straight away, as most of the time she was with her back to the public or singing with her eyes shut. Go figure with Howe there where hardly any enthusiastic applause and even less cheers and with such a pathetic performance…