Ellie Williams at Mama Stone’s

(by Utterly B Groovy) Well I was able to catch the gig at Mama Stone’s in Exeter last night – and great to bump into Adam Sieff as well! Well, great for me but I expect it ruined his evening

What a great gig it was too!

First up was a guy called Cole Stacey doing his own brand of folky type stuff – and what a good voice he had too!

Ellie up next (and last), and did you know she suffers from nerves before a performance? I’ve heard that a lot of well established artists do too, so she’s in good company, but I’d have to say there was no evidence of nervousness when she opened with Unseen, which you may know is my favourite! This she played alone on the keyboards, but she had her band with her, in part or in whole, for other tracks and they sounded excellent. One of my problems with the whole “girl and a keyboard” genre is how samey the tracks can start to sound after you’ve heard a couple but Ellie’s (clever?) use of the band members simply stops this happening. There’s still the raw presence in the unaccompanied keyboards, but throw in Ellie singing to just an acoustic guitar on Firefly, Ellie on keys + acoustic, Ellie + full band, etc and you eliminate the problem entirely.

Enthusiastic cries of “MORE” from the crowd managed to entice an encore of another song from the album that I’d not heard and it’s another winner!

If that is a reflection of the forthcoming album then I’m even more eager to get my copy!

I’m really looking forward to the next Troubador gig in London now!
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