Not-as-Close-as-I-Thought-to-Toronto Show Thoughts

[catinthedark]

just back from the show - casino rama is an hour and a half from toronto - two hours+ in friday traffic. who knew?

anyway -

no vanessa carleton. no new songs. she did mix up the order a bit. not to mention a couple of lines in "if anyone falls."

show started at 9:10pm, and ended at 11pm. she wore the boots, and did the walk. no tumble tonight. she made a little joke about it, though. most of the audience was likely very, very confused.

is this new? she is introducing almost every song with a little anecdote. i could practically recite along with most of them. the only one that contained any new information (for me anyway) was the intro to sorcerer. she talked about how she wrote it after polydor dropped buckingham-nicks and they were so devastated, etc, etc, but then she said, so this is "sorcerer" or "hollywood is weird!" cute. i had never heard that.

anyway - the intros give it a real lounge act feel. not sure i liked it. found all the pics of her dad during landslide a bit much. too personal. i started to feel uncomfortable. there were also a LOT of, um, not young people at this show. like i'd say the average age was... 50. because there were so many people in their 60s bringing it up! bizarre. and security at this place was evil incarnate. they literally walked everyone to their seats. and there was NO getting into the front section if you couldn't produce a ticket. no getting down there for the edge walk. they were all old and bitter. (can you tell i'm not so fond of this venue yet?)

i had my worst seats in many, many shows. 16th row centre - which was actually quite fabulous. not far back at all (plus there were two giant screens). but when you've stood at her feet at the stage, 3 or 4 times, it's a whole different baby to be back some. so i decided to accept it and experience it as such. i had two very enthusiastic girls on either side of me (one of the REEKED of alcohol) but i just sat back and mellowed out. sat. i don;t think i have ever sat for a stevie or FM show. but it was easy, because to tell the truth, it was a little boring. same clothes, same boots, same choreographed movements, same songs. she looked great and she sounded great. but i'm not sure i'll pay $100+ to see her solo anymore. which makes me sad.

i got home feeling like tonight was a strange night. i think i'm a bit dismayed. my perfect beloved everything-to-me speaks-to-my-heart stevie has stalled and doesn't seem to want to move forwrad anymore. which is entirely her prerogative. it just makes me sad.