Well, to begin with, what a great kick-off to the show - "To Bring You My Love" / "Send His Love To Me", Polly Jean standing in the middle of the stage on her own, in full voice and tearing out the chords on her extremely plugged-in guitar...hard to imagine how it could've been much better. The show in general was pretty well-balanced, with a bias towards the last couple of albums, neither of which I've listened to (though some of the Uh Huh Her stuff has turned up on mix cds from David before - including "The Desperate Kingdom of Love", which was a bit of a highlight); the ones that she introduced as being from the latest, White Chalk were reminiscent of solo Kristin Hersh and markedly spectral (good, too, though I'm not sure if they'd stand up to repeat at-home listening). All up, I was pretty happy with it - it was a good concert. The highlight was "Horses In My Dreams", which led off the encore - it's always been a bit special, but its dynamics came through more clearly when done live...it was a bit of a Moment.
(Support was Mick Harvey - just him on guitar + cello. Created a very warm sound and was all round good; did some nice covers including one of the Triffids' "Raining Pleasure" which worked a treat.)
(w/ trang, and her friends Ee-Lin and Liah)
