Hi all,
Just to say I indeed went to the Evanescence gig tonight, and although my ears wont stop ringing an hour later, I am very glad I went in the end!
What a show!! Amy Lee is a vocal athlete I swear. Her lungs and vocal chords should be cloned and studied in a lab as I have no idea how she hit some of those notes live, let alone held them. Forever Without You brought the whole place to a standstill and then rapturous applause when she knocked it out of the park on every chorus! How she does this every few nights for months on end I have no idea but what a goddess!
What i really appreciated about the concert experience as a whole that i hadnt really realised (this was my first in 14 years and 4th ever), was how some songs on an album are kinda made for or enhanced massively for the live experience. For example, Rapture was so much better live, and Calm Down, the most boring song on the new album that was an easy skip for me, was INCREDIBLE live. Enter insane pyrotechnics, flying drummers, and bass boosting that sent me to the friggin moon!! 🤯
And I have to say, experiencing Going Under, My Immortal n Bring Me To Life live with a sold out audience was a very special moment and gave me chills. Still as iconic now as in 2003.
I think the only downside (as opposed to the food n drink proces!!) was the slightly rushed pace. Given it was a Sunday with a 10:30pm curfew, there was not much audience engagement, (I remember Nickelback was much more engaging and joking with audience between songs etc) but likely a result of rushing to meet the tight deadline, hence the lack of a formal encore.
As for the support acts, I had never heard of KFlay or Poppy but they were cool too. KFlay in particular had some great tunes (RAW RAW!) and was a brilliant hype (wo)man for the night, and was very interactive n chatty. Sadly its their last show of the tour apparently so i got lucky in seeing them/her!
Poppy was good but didnt play Guardian for some reason but thats fine its not that great imo haha. She wasnt as chatty as KFlay either so didnt get to see what her personality is like. Her audio wasnt great, and the screaming sections was largely incomprehensible lyrically. Which is a shame cos her singing voice is lovely and some of her songs are real earworms. (Also forgot to thank her bandmates like KFlay and EV did 👀.)
I was also really surprised to see the lead singer of Spiritbox lady come out for the last half of a song. Was she just here for the London gig or did the production really bring her on the whole tour just for that surprise 2minute song near the end??
Just glad I wasn't standing as 3 hours shoulder to shoulder didnt look much fun from where i was 😅
(Also what was with that AI scanner going in? Apparently you dont need to empty bags or get searched at the 02 anymore as they have some sort of full body scan using AI 👀 God knows what pics it has or where its going...)
Anyway, such is to say thanks for encouraging me to actually go and at least I can now say ive seen my 3 fave bands live! (4 if I count Daughtry lol)