One man and an acoustic guitar is the oldest format there is and the easiest to do badly, which makes the handful of people who can hold a thousand-seat room alone genuinely remarkable to watch. The voice does most of the work: cracked, insistent, pitched slightly higher than seems sustainable, and used as a rhythm instrument as much as a melodic one. Songs about distance and weather and leaving, delivered with an urgency that studio recordings flatten. Between numbers the tuning takes a while and the talk is funnier than the material would suggest. This is a show where the room goes properly silent, which is increasingly hard to find and worth seeking out deliberately. Go on your own if that appeals; a lot of the audience will have done the same.
One man and an acoustic guitar is the oldest format there is and the easiest to do badly, which makes the handful of people who can hold a thousand-seat room alone genuinely remarkable to watch. The voice does most of the work: cracked, insistent, pitched slightly higher than seems sustainable, and used as a rhythm instrument as much as a melodic one. Songs about distance and weather and leaving, delivered with an urgency that studio recordings flatten. Between numbers the tuning takes a while and the talk is funnier than the material would suggest. This is a show where the room goes properly silent, which is increasingly hard to find and worth seeking out deliberately. Go on your own if that appeals; a lot of the audience will have done the same.
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One man and an acoustic guitar is the oldest format there is and the easiest to do badly, which makes the handful of people who can hold a thousand-seat room alone genuinely remarkable to watch. The voice does most of the work: cracked, insistent, pitched slightly higher than seems sustainable, and used as a rhythm instrument as much as a melodic one. Songs about distance and weather and leaving, delivered with an urgency that studio recordings flatten. Between numbers the tuning takes a while and the talk is funnier than the material would suggest. This is a show where the room goes properly silent, which is increasingly hard to find and worth seeking out deliberately. Go on your own if that appeals; a lot of the audience will have done the same.