Music review: Roddy Frame, Glasgow
Roddy Frame
Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Star Rating: ****
With his new band intuitively in tow, Frame has been inspired to revisit parts of the Aztec Camera catalogue which he had parked during his solo acoustic years as well as material from new album Seven Dials, such as White Pony with everything chiming in its right place. Forty Days of Rain held a spring in its step despite its heartache mood, Deep & Wide & Tall was, in fact, light and smooth and the yearning, slick soul of Working In A Goldmine was tasty indeed.
But for all the extra leverage his troupe of musicians gave him, the audience engaged just as warmly with the stripped-down arrangements of lovely piano ballad On The Avenue and the solo renditions of Killermont Street, named after the street on which the Concert Hall stands, and Down the Dip, still fresh in its youthful frustrations and aspirations.
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Hide AdFrame bounced around the stage with nervous energy, trying to judge the feast-or-famine mood of the room. Most of the crowd were on best, if muted, behaviour, allowing a handful of vocal fans to fill the gaps with gruff heckles before a late run of beloved tracks from debut album High Land Hard Rain broke the remainder of the ice.
FIONA SHEPHERD
Seen on 02.12.14