Re: Adele

If that is your review Brack, fair play, lovely use of words, if not please post the author as I would like to see where they are blogging this.

Brack wrote:

RAH Review

Adele at the Royal Albert Hall 
Category: Music Venues
Area: Knightsbridge
23/9/2011 First to Review

All Hail Adele!

Tonight I finally saw her in concert with Aisha. Adele was in her own potty mouthed way 'freaking amazing'!

Appearing first as a backlit silhouette singing Hometown Glory, her actual appearance onstage practically blew the roof off the Royal Albert Hall, with mass applause from a very appreciative audience. 

I  have to admit I just about made it through Turning Tables (arguably my favourite track off  '21'), without turning into a tear puddle, due to some hilarious pre-song banter from Adele regarding her ex partner who she wrote the song about.

Between song banter is a talent sadly lacking in some of the world's biggest music stars, which means when you come across gold star quality banter, which is exactly what Adele has in spades,you can't help but lap it up.

She is side splittingly funny, without being crude, nasty or harsh. Refreshingly honest about her mistakes in life and in particular with men.

We loved it. Nodding in agreement at those 'crappy' empathetic romantic moments that we've all experienced and laughing with her, about her mock diva outbursts. For someone who's known for singing sad songs, this lady is anything but that.

She sang all her hits - Chasing Pavements,Don't You Remember, Rumour Has It to name a few,and a few covers - Bonnie Raitt's I Can't Make You Love Me and the Cure's Lovesong, all of which were interwoven with her infectious personality and funny stories.

Her tone was beautiful, rich,warm and effortless. Her pitch was unbelievable, especially as she explained that she was recently recovered from a respiratory problem.  She gave it her all, even restarting one song, because she felt she hadn't nailed the beginning of it correctly.

Poignantly she paid tribute to Amy Winehouse by dedicating Make You Feel My Love, to her. Her beautiful rendition was heightened by the lights being dimmed, everyone switching their phone lights on at her request, while a blanket of lit stars spiralled around the hall, bouncing off a huge mirrored ball in the centre of it.

She saved Someone Like You, until the end and was just as electrifying as her now famous Brit Awards performance. We sang the chorus back to her twice and just like she did at the Brits, the love in the hall for her, moved both her and quite a lot of us to tears.

Fortunately, she came back out for an encore of Rolling In the Deep, which had everyone on their feet dancing and clapping. Adele left the stage, exactly as she arrived, to the sound of an audience, besotted by her voice, now in love with her humour and humility.

If you get the chance to go and see her, take my advice and do it !

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Me i personally really like Adele's voice, i find her one of the most refreshing new atists in years with real life lyrics within her heartfelt songs and a haunting stunning voice, to me the songs are what are really important and i enjoy the atmosphere she creates in both her albums also she is even better live.
She is a real down to earth girl and has the most fantastic sense of humour and is nowhere near starstruck, just a plain woman with a truly stunning voice.
Ken made a touched on good point in this lively discussion that artists like Elvis, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and numerous others who shot to fame in a very short time were ridiculed by the majority quickly but were all liked in their ardent fanbase and youth.
I too abhor the manufactured Simon Cowell American Idol/X Factor style of thinking to quick money making for the moment throwaway, there are some ok individuals but they never last in the fickle world of pop, but it's the way it's interperated as the real and only music out there in media/tv/radio/magazines and thats a shame really that most of the music consumers are supermarket shoppers and present buying folks thats proved in no record shops hardly only online music.
Anyway i like Adele have both her albums and like the variety it adds to my music collection from ABBA to ZZ TOP , from Classical to Speed Death Metal, as i always said there is good music in every genre if you search hard enough
Great to hear someone just doing it like the old days with just their voice with a piano, you don't have to have guitar in all your songs.

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no doubt there is a lot of wasted tallent out there... but compaired to the rest of the stuff in the top 10 Adele is probally the most genuine.. though no where near the likes of some bands that never get signed  hmm

58 (edited by Greenose 2011-09-23 18:35:05)

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mbcl wrote:

If that is your review Brack, fair play, lovely use of words, if not please post the author as I would like to see where they are blogging this.

It's not Brack's words. Again he's passing off others work as his own. As you'll see from this profile the true author is clearly female while Brack's real name is Paul  hmm

The blog is here: http://www.yelp.co.uk/user_details?user … hd1ph8MzsQ

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funny how these Adele haters keep posting on this topic,,,thus continue to bump it to the top.........lol.

60 (edited by Pete The Cabby 2011-09-24 00:07:33)

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Greenose wrote:

...It's not Brack's words. Again he's passing off others work as his own.

...i dont see where Brack was passing this off as his own...sorry!

...Brack clearly posts a link under RAH Revue as a reference.... in no way does he insinuate or imply that these are his own words!

...Brack's post  shows he has edited the post...that does not mean he edited the text of the revue!

...think you owe someone an apology myself!  hmm

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Pete The Cabby wrote:
Greenose wrote:

...It's not Brack's words. Again he's passing off others work as his own.

...i dont see where Brack was passing this off as his own...sorry!

...Brack clearly posts a link under RAH Revue as a reference.... in no way does he insinuate or imply that these are his own words!

...Brack's post  shows he has edited the post...that does not mean he edited the text of the revue!

...think you owe someone an apology myself!  hmm

Don't hold your breath Pete!

Wow!  How did I miss this spirited debate.  If you forgive the personal shots (I do), then what Duncan and Martin are saying are accurate assessments of an unfair (music) industry.  I happen to like Adele's music and prefer her 19 album over the over-marketed 21 effort.  Naturally this is just one man's opinion, but I don't have a problem with her having a thread here as opposed to a real head-scratcher like Taylor Swift.  That's the only disagreement I have with Duncan.  I like the debate a global sensation brings here vs I went to a gig and twenty people showed up to see ________.  Good stuff!  Guess I'll go back to bed.....

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Pete The Cabby wrote:
Greenose wrote:

...It's not Brack's words. Again he's passing off others work as his own.

...i dont see where Brack was passing this off as his own...sorry!

...Brack clearly posts a link under RAH Revue as a reference.... in no way does he insinuate or imply that these are his own words!

...Brack's post  shows he has edited the post... hmm

Brack only posted the link to the RAH review as a reference after he'd been asked to source it, note that Martin's quote of the full review before the edit does not include a link.
This is precisely what I referred to in post 8 of this thread (which is unedited and shows what I do dislike and it's not Adele). I rest my case your honour.

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Pete The Cabby wrote:
Greenose wrote:

...It's not Brack's words. Again he's passing off others work as his own.

...i dont see where Brack was passing this off as his own...sorry!

...Brack clearly posts a link under RAH Revue as a reference.... in no way does he insinuate or imply that these are his own words!

...Brack's post  shows he has edited the post...that does not mean he edited the text of the revue!

...think you owe someone an apology myself!  hmm

AHhh Brack's the web ticker of the forum if nothing else, he ain't doin' nuthin' but havin' fun like we all like to do~! big_smile
It's like he's in a race.  He ain't doin' know harm! wink

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Rocket wrote:

AHhh Brack's the web ticker of the forum if nothing else, he ain't doin' nuthin' but havin' fun like we all like to do~! big_smile
It's like he's in a race.  He ain't doin' know harm! wink

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Disagree, Rocket and Pete. Brack is the mindless link poster and provocateur of the forum, nothing more. Duncan is correct. Brack has all sorts of history for posting other people's words without sourcing them. Anyone who knows his 'style' by now knows that he can't write more than three sensible words of his own. In this case he again posted without a source, then when asked by Martin, he posted the source in a separate post, then he deleted that post and put the link at the top of the original post. If nobody had pulled him up about it he would have left the original text as it was, leading those who don't know his 'style' to suppose that the words were his.  roll

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Just to let you all know, I never will respond to anything both greenose & amsterhammer have to say about me or my posts - if it becomes personal, i contact the Mods - thats their job. Thats my style.

Anyway...... back to the topic of Adele!

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Amsterhammer wrote:
Rocket wrote:

AHhh Brack's the web ticker of the forum if nothing else, he ain't doin' nuthin' but havin' fun like we all like to do~! big_smile
It's like he's in a race.  He ain't doin' know harm! wink

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

Disagree, Rocket and Pete. Brack is the mindless link poster and provocateur of the forum, nothing more. Duncan is correct. Brack has all sorts of history for posting other people's words without sourcing them. Anyone who knows his 'style' by now knows that he can't write more than three sensible words of his own. In this case he again posted without a source, then when asked by Martin, he posted the source in a separate post, then he deleted that post and put the link at the top of the original post. If nobody had pulled him up about it he would have left the original text as it was, leading those who don't know his 'style' to suppose that the words were his.  roll

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Interview: Adele, singer

Published Date: 22 September 2011
By Gary Flockhart
MEMO to staff at the Usher Hall: Adele would probably quite like a sick bucket to be included in her backstage rider ahead of Saturday's gig.


"I puke quite a lot before going on stage," says the 23-year-old. "Though never actually on stage."

The pre-gig puke, she says, is down to stage fright. But it guarantees a great performance from the Brit and Grammy-winning superstar.

"The bigger the freak-out, the more I enjoy the show," she confirms, laughing.

No airs and graces for Adele, she tells it like it is. And seemingly no subject is out of bounds for the young Londoner - not even the failed relationship that inspired the songs on her record- breaking second album, 21.

The story goes that after the release of Adele's 2008 debut, 19, things started to go wrong for her and her then partner.

The pair split up in April that year, but it wasn't until December that she felt ready to pour her heart out and reveal everything on record.

"I just had to wait and be ready to be honest with myself, and to properly articulate what I wanted to say. Otherwise it would have been 19, Volume 2," says the singer. "I needed that light bulb to come on."

From there, it was a fairly quick writing process, which involved super-producer Paul Epworth - "I wouldn't be able to cope if I had as many ideas in my head as him, I'd explode," says Adele - former Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson and OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, a respected tunesmith who has written hits for female superstars like Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson and Whitney Houston.

"I first met Ryan in a lift in the States with about 100 balloons," she explains. "He said he knew it was me because he recognised my laugh - Scott Mills had made a clip of it on his Radio 1 show, which he'd heard while in the UK.

"Anyway, he came in the lift, popped loads of the balloons and said we had to work together."

That 21 was a success is an understatement. By far and away 2011's top seller worldwide, the album has taken little more than seven months since release to break the ten million mark and looks likely to reach 13 million sales by the end of the year.

Earlier this week, it was announced that the chart-topping album is to be recognised for a hat-trick of achievements by Guinness World Records.

Adele has set new UK records for a solo female with both the most consecutive weeks at number one (11, beating a record previously held by Madonna's The Immaculate Collection) and the most cumulative weeks at the top (18, erasing out both Alanis Morissette and Shania Twain, who shared the previous record at 11 weeks).



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smile

Brack wrote:

Interview: Adele, singer

Published Date: 22 September 2011
By Gary Flockhart
MEMO to staff at the Usher Hall: Adele would probably quite like a sick bucket to be included in her backstage rider ahead of Saturday's gig.


"I puke quite a lot before going on stage," says the 23-year-old. "Though never actually on stage."

The pre-gig puke, she says, is down to stage fright. But it guarantees a great performance from the Brit and Grammy-winning superstar.

"The bigger the freak-out, the more I enjoy the show," she confirms, laughing.

No airs and graces for Adele, she tells it like it is. And seemingly no subject is out of bounds for the young Londoner - not even the failed relationship that inspired the songs on her record- breaking second album, 21.

The story goes that after the release of Adele's 2008 debut, 19, things started to go wrong for her and her then partner.

The pair split up in April that year, but it wasn't until December that she felt ready to pour her heart out and reveal everything on record.

"I just had to wait and be ready to be honest with myself, and to properly articulate what I wanted to say. Otherwise it would have been 19, Volume 2," says the singer. "I needed that light bulb to come on."

From there, it was a fairly quick writing process, which involved super-producer Paul Epworth - "I wouldn't be able to cope if I had as many ideas in my head as him, I'd explode," says Adele - former Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson and OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, a respected tunesmith who has written hits for female superstars like Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson and Whitney Houston.

"I first met Ryan in a lift in the States with about 100 balloons," she explains. "He said he knew it was me because he recognised my laugh - Scott Mills had made a clip of it on his Radio 1 show, which he'd heard while in the UK.

"Anyway, he came in the lift, popped loads of the balloons and said we had to work together."

That 21 was a success is an understatement. By far and away 2011's top seller worldwide, the album has taken little more than seven months since release to break the ten million mark and looks likely to reach 13 million sales by the end of the year.

Earlier this week, it was announced that the chart-topping album is to be recognised for a hat-trick of achievements by Guinness World Records.

Adele has set new UK records for a solo female with both the most consecutive weeks at number one (11, beating a record previously held by Madonna's The Immaculate Collection) and the most cumulative weeks at the top (18, erasing out both Alanis Morissette and Shania Twain, who shared the previous record at 11 weeks).



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69 (edited by Stu Craig 2011-09-25 09:17:19)

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Greenose wrote:

I honestly do not see the need to post about Adele on Joe's forum, it's hardly a similar style of music. Brack if you want to congratulate Adele on her success why not spend some of that eternal time that you do online and find if she's got a fan forum you can copy and paste your lifted but unsourced quotes from. Maybe now she's playing the RAH you might go and see her live, since you didn't go to see Joe live before he played there. I saw you commented on Pete's videos of Henrik Freischlader, did you actually go and see him, or just sit at home and wait for the youtube clips? Rather than collecting 4,500 more posts of nonsence why not get out there and support live music at a local level and maybe tell us about someone we've not heard about before?

Ok I am confused. Thought this was the "Other Artists" section of the forum, where people talk about...other artists. What am I missing here?

70 (edited by Curby 2011-09-25 10:29:11)

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Last evening my wife and I went to a wedding of a family friend.  We used to babysit the bride when she was a baby and saw her periodically throughout her childhood.  The wedding was held outdoors with rain threatening, but it thankfully didn't materialize until much later.  The reason I mention this is instead of a wedding march when the bride arrived the young couple played Adele's "Make You Feel My Love".  After the exchange of rings, but before the ceremony ended another Adele song was played in its entirety while the couple lit candles.

I mention this because I was a little surprised at some of the negative statements lobbed at someone like Adele.  Both those songs Lauren and Jason picked were off that "atrocious" 19 album that sold in the millions and happens to be a very good album in my humble opinion.

Here's that second song - the lyrics answers why they chose it....
http://youtu.be/fjQJz_8rQkY

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Stu Craig wrote:

What am I missing here?

You're missing the ill feeling towards a particular forum member from many of the British members of this forum. It's evident throughout this whole thread, however there's many others who feel the same way who prefer to say nothing. Like me they find it such a turn off that one person can spout so much hot air to the extent that they become the fifth highest poster on the forum without very saying any thing of value at all that's not lifted from the words of someone else. It's a major reason why many choose not to post here anymore, once quality meant something over quality. It seems those days have gone. As for Adele, I have no strong feelings one way or another.

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So she got a break.  So she's popular.  So she's got a money machine behind her.  Life's not necessarily fair; the biz is most definitely NOT fair.  She writes about a universal theme.  Dumping or being dumped is a mother lode for songs of every genre.  Let her enjoy her success.  Wife & daughter like her.  They play (musical instruments), so it's not mindless.

Duncan, it's rare that we agree on defining the blues and often I tease about you being a cheapskate, but you are in the street, conducting research and writing about it for publication.  Expert yet?  wink  but soon come.   tongue  lol  I understand (and agree with) your annoyance with the unceasing nonsense & overkill by Brack, just take a deep breath.  He's in the right thread.

George, you've asked Brack in email & online to change some stuff.  He finally did so.  You fume and Brack does NOT care other than to rile you up.  I assume (perhaps wrongly) that he enjoys it.  Let it be.

Brack, you say here that you will never respond to Greenose or Amsterhammer and when it gets personal you turn it over to the mods.  Yet you have interjected your opinion in the past in/on other's personal matters.  Even on this thread, some of your responses could seem defiant, especially to some who are working so hard to try and make it.  It's touchy.  So while I would defend your right to be here, I would like to see/read some info about you. 

You obviously want or need to share, so share.  Maybe something  that's not a link.   wink   If you've ever posted an Introduction, I missed it.  I apologize if I did.  Being partly disabled, occasionally  I find myself bored to tears and spend far too much time surfing pure rubbish. 

I'm looking at your avatar.  Are you or were you a drummer?  Do you read?  Do you play?  Did you get run down playing soccer/futbol?  Got a family?  Just a thought.  We are all only human at best.

Yeah Adele is doing well.  More power to her.

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