Jamie Cullum – What a talent!

Nov 15, 10:34 am in Misc

We went to see Jamie Cullum yesterday at Royal Albert Hall and came out breathless. The talent of this young guy and his band is nothing short of amazing. After a quite sedative warm up act Jamie came on stage around 20.30 and left it first 2.5 hours later – 2.5 hours of high beat non-stop entertainment.

He went through most of expected songs from his previous and new albums. He also played a new song yet to be recorded. Though I find his songs great it was all in the delivery. Every song was delivered with some kind of twist like being sung without an amplifier and only supported by a double bass in the middle of the audience. These guys really gave a lot of them selves and it was very clear that they loved every minute of it.

Jamie Cullum is surely a man of some considerate talent. Besides having a great voice, some serious piano prowess, playing the guitar and the occasional drum he managed to build up a complete song by drumming with his hands on a piano frame, only inserting the occasional chord and it was a great experience. The rhythm is just there, it’s like he can pluck music from thin air. His drummer also demonstrated some of this ability when going off on a 5 to 10 minute drum solo around the stage. Tapping away on mike stands, drums, the floor, a double bass and then making a high hat out of a cymbal flipped upside down on the floor. Some people just have it and this gang does in bucket loads.

The show concluded with the cover version of Radiohead’s High & Dry. Towards the end of it Jamie managed to convert the whole Royal Albert Hall audience to a two voice backing choir. I’m not sure but I think he improvised that move just to play and experiment with the acoustic qualities of the Royal Albert Hall – enjoying himself immensely and hence entertaining us even more.

If you can get tickets for tonight’s show just go! If not get the his records and make sure not to miss his next concert. This guy is going to be around a long time.

Jamie, thank you for the music!

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