Cloaca Melodia

Benedum Center, Pittsburgh, PA..... With a Morrissey concert, one always wonders whether it will take place at all--given Morrissey's well-documented history of shows cancelled at the last minute. So it was concerning when several recent of his concerts had to be scrapped due to credible death threats on the former Smiths frontman. But, it turned out not to be a concern and the show went on as scheduled. Morrissey was in fine voice but I had some issues with the setlist. Towards the end of the main set, I thought it's got to be bangers all the way down, but I was disappointed. Some deeper cuts, but more problematically, midtempo songs that didn't get the energy up except for the hardest-core of Moz-heads. There were a lot of people heading to the exits early, and my daughter (first time seeing him live) said to me at one point, "The music for each song sounds good but once he starts singing, they all sound the same." The last time I saw Morrissey , while a showcas...

Benedum Center, Pittsburgh, PA ....   sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!    

Benedum Center, Pittsburgh, PA sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Benedum Center, Pittsburgh, PA... The show was originally booked for the Post-Gazette Pavilion but was moved in July to the Benedum Center. It was probably a good plan to have her indoors in a theater rather than doing the shed thing, but because of the move it seemed like they had to accommodate more people than they have seats at the Benedum. They had added folding chairs at the far ends of most aisles in the orchestra section and I ended up in one of these extreme-angled view seats. Norah was very enjoyable to see, and she was still riding extremely high from the ginormity (is that a word?) of her debut album, Come Away With Me . When you look back at her career, her debut was 12x platinum, her sophomore release was 4x platinum, her third album was 2x platinum, her fourth was platinum, her fifth was gold, and all subsequent albums weren't big sellers to the point of RIAA certification. And yet most of her albums were of very high quality, so one can say that her debut was the ex...

Benedum Theater, Pittsburgh, PA sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!