Tegan & Sara

After a knackering week at work I needed some light relief and I was hoping tonight would provide that.

To be honest, sorry to admit this, only heard of Tegan & Sara through reading an article in Diva Magazine.

I did buy the latest album 'Heartthrob', but have only listened to it a couple of times, so tonight I would be so out of place.

Quite surprised how massive the two piece are back in the US and Canada and I was shocked to read this is their sixth album and I thought they were only in their early twenties, boy god the Oil of Ulay must be working.

We got to the venue as the temperature was rising and everyone was vying for a prime position at the front. I didn't expect what a massive Lesbian following the duo have got, the only other glimmer I've had of this was with artists such as Pink, Anastacia and KD Lang, obviously there were token men in there somewhere, but the audience was mostly made up of women.

The venue was packed to the rafters, cameras and phones were ready for the anticipated arrival of the duo and their band.

Only a handful of dates on this tour, so everyone wanted a good eyeful of the glamorous duo.



The stage set was fairly basic, massive backdrop and lights, just the band and their back catalogue to keep the audience company.

When I saw the set list I nearly had a coronary, 32 songs, did they know that it was curfew tonight at 23.00hrs!

The up tempo 'Drove Me Wild' kicked off the set from the new album, and this was an amazing start, how were they gonna keep the show going singing that amount of songs.

The answer was they breezed through it, like a knife through butter. They looked like they were having an amazing time, even having time to chat about how they loved New Kids on the Block when they were kids and how they witnessed a performance when one of the new kids reached a high note and ended up belching. The audience thought this was hilarious.

My partner and I kept looking at each other as it was like we were missing something, every single member of that audience was in total AWE, I have never seen so many people mesmerized and mouthing every single word, even screaming when certain songs came on.



The duo are very, very talented indeed, but the audience seriously weren't bothered about this, they were like rabid dogs salivating for the next song, 'I'm Not Your Hero', 'Goodbye,Goodbye' and 'I Couldn't Be Your Friend', all off the current album went down an absolute storm.

The duo seemed at home playing their acoustic guitars or the Synth Pop stylee from the new album. Christ it was an absolute plethora of songs, was the music ever gonna stop!!

Vocally the twins complement each other, we were both arguing which one is the better singer, we totally disagreed.

We, however, didn't disagree that they are both very talented. I would love to see a pure acoustic set with just them and guitars, now that would be heaven.

Well, tonight was a definite learning curve and indeed an experience, think I need to get the rest of the back catalogue and pin my lug holes back.

I shall certainly jump on the next Tegan & Sara, gravy train when it stops in the UK, first class ticket please.

FUTURE GIGS

sorry, we currently have no gigs listed for this act.