{"id":18718,"date":"2013-01-20T16:06:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T21:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=18718"},"modified":"2013-01-24T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T05:19:07","slug":"now-playing-emeli-sande-plus-the-week-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/now-playing-emeli-sande-plus-the-week-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Playing: Emeli Sand\u00e9. Plus, the Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw gorgeous singer Emeli Sand\u00e9 perform at Webster Hall on Thursday. Last year, I swore I wouldn’t go back to Webster Hall, ever, after experiencing a Theophilus London<\/a> rap concert there. Webster Hall<\/a> has been around in its current incarnation as a dance club and concert venue for 20 years. I used to go there in the early ’90s.\u00a0 As the floor bounced scarily under the\u00a0pogoing<\/a> fans directly in front of the stage at the London concert, I thought, “Have they reinforced this floor since the last time I was here in 1993?” My friend Debra asked me more pointedly, “Do you think we’re going to die?” And that was before Theophilus — a tall dude wearing a leather jacket with spikes on it<\/a> — threw himself into the audience a few inches from our heads.<\/p>\n

But I decided I truly wanted to see Emeli, whose soulful album Our Version of Events<\/em><\/a> hit No. 1 on the U.K. charts last year. (She also performed at the opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics<\/a>.) Based on her music, I figured the audience would dance rather than jump, so I got tickets and once again<\/a> convinced designer<\/a>\/blogger<\/a>\/stylist\/partner-in-crime Stacy Lomman to see an artist she’d never heard of. As I hoped, the floor behaved itself — this fan base expressed its enthusiasm by singing every word to every song rather than jumping around — and the concert exceeded expectations.<\/p>\n

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My one crappy Instagram picture of Emeli performing.<\/p><\/div>\n

I haven’t been able to stop listening to Our Version of Events<\/em> for three days.\u00a0 If you haven’t heard Emeli Sand\u00e9, here are two of my favorite songs: “Heaven” and “Next to Me.” (I love every song on the album though.)<\/p>\n