Member Review: James Blunt

BPD member East Coast Sarah writes:

Who knew England’s James Blunt, he of the high voice, sensitive love songs, and boyish good looks, would improve with age? Blunty - now 37 - played enthusiastically in support of his third album, Some Kind of Trouble, released last November.

Perhaps it was a case of Blunt, the former Kosovo military officer who struck musical gold with his 2005 ballad, You’re Beautiful although he’s never quite reached those heights again, finally finding the perfect venue for his soft pop-rock-folk music or maybe his confidence has just grown exponentially.

Whatever, the reason, the singer came out swinging off the top of his hour-and-50-minute show, running through the crowd from the back of the floor, stopping to kiss and hug an excited female fan, before jumping up on stage to launch into So Far Gone from Some Kind of Trouble.

Backed by a tight-sounding (and great-looking) five piece band, some of who wore matching grey jackets, Blunt - who alternated between acoustic and electric guitar and piano over the course of the night - was a flirty chatterbox too.

Before the show, he told me backstage “Make no mistake about it. This is a girl’s concert”. Then he went out and demanded the females in the audience take off their clothes as a source of inspiration for him to sing “like I’ve never sung before.”

He had few takers, but his performance was solid anyway.

SET LIST:

So Far Gone

Dangerous

Billy

Wisemen

Carry You Home

These Are The Words

I’ll Take Everything

Out Of My Mind

Goodbye My Lover

High

Same Mistake

If Time Is All I Have

Turn Me On

Superstar

You’re Beautiful

So Long, Jimmy

I’ll Be Your Man

Encore:

Into The Dark

Stay The Night

1973

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