Post by fugees-online on Dec 13, 2005 9:26:26 GMT 1
Review by Puling (from runboard)
The room was almost full, some people couldn't come because of the strike on some trains line, too bad for them.
They started around 9h45, so i waited for 1 hour and 45 minutes while two guest sang their stuff, the first were a ****ty group from the virgin island, and the 2nd was adeena, or something like that, she was good.
Then as usual wyclef came the first, and then the two other cats came round. They sang the same songs that in the other concerts, so i'm not gonna describe them.
The sound was ok, better than for her solo concert back in july, but still, there was a ugly echo that transformed their voice, especially her, so i can't really tell how good she sounded. Though she got breathless a few times.
They were really concerned about the crowd, Wyclef is a showman, he got in the crowd, and at some point, he saw a french rapper named Passy, and ms.hill told him "look who's there" and he got next to him in the seats, and then he got on stage with them, rapping a little verse (****ty, by the way) while the 3 fugees danced and rapped too.
It was some kind of weird, because i felt that they were doing that more for the audience than to make music for real. They're still as good as they were, but it lacks some chemistry, and some real new flavor to be honest.
Anyway, Wyclef and Praz got in the crowd, it was fun, people got crazy, and the atmosphere in Bercy (the indoor stadium) was quite good.
Ms.Hill smiled, danced, did her things, but sometimes she would left the stage and let Wyclef alone. It made me think he was trying to keep the audience hot, but surprisingly, she wasn't the big picture, except for her solo songs on which she demonstrated her talent.
It seemed too mechanical to me, but it was good, really good.
At the end of the show, Ms.Hill started throwing a towel in the crowd, and then another one, and then another one, and then someone throw something at her that looked like a shawl, and she put it around her neck, and she continued to throw towels. It was a ritual : she first put some of her sweat on them, and she would then threw them in a extremely funny way, she was tryin to throw it far, i thought she would get on her ass. And finally, she did go inside the crowd ! Ladies and gentlemens, Ms.Hill, the woman who does not want people to look at her and who does not want to be touched, got in the crowd (with the security ehh, she's a woman after all, people could touch her. And she went to a corner in the seats and she gave a towel to someone. I would have like to be closer to her to get a few words with her, but hey, it was crowded, next time maybe.
Surprising, hey ?
The room was almost full, some people couldn't come because of the strike on some trains line, too bad for them.
They started around 9h45, so i waited for 1 hour and 45 minutes while two guest sang their stuff, the first were a ****ty group from the virgin island, and the 2nd was adeena, or something like that, she was good.
Then as usual wyclef came the first, and then the two other cats came round. They sang the same songs that in the other concerts, so i'm not gonna describe them.
The sound was ok, better than for her solo concert back in july, but still, there was a ugly echo that transformed their voice, especially her, so i can't really tell how good she sounded. Though she got breathless a few times.
They were really concerned about the crowd, Wyclef is a showman, he got in the crowd, and at some point, he saw a french rapper named Passy, and ms.hill told him "look who's there" and he got next to him in the seats, and then he got on stage with them, rapping a little verse (****ty, by the way) while the 3 fugees danced and rapped too.
It was some kind of weird, because i felt that they were doing that more for the audience than to make music for real. They're still as good as they were, but it lacks some chemistry, and some real new flavor to be honest.
Anyway, Wyclef and Praz got in the crowd, it was fun, people got crazy, and the atmosphere in Bercy (the indoor stadium) was quite good.
Ms.Hill smiled, danced, did her things, but sometimes she would left the stage and let Wyclef alone. It made me think he was trying to keep the audience hot, but surprisingly, she wasn't the big picture, except for her solo songs on which she demonstrated her talent.
It seemed too mechanical to me, but it was good, really good.
At the end of the show, Ms.Hill started throwing a towel in the crowd, and then another one, and then another one, and then someone throw something at her that looked like a shawl, and she put it around her neck, and she continued to throw towels. It was a ritual : she first put some of her sweat on them, and she would then threw them in a extremely funny way, she was tryin to throw it far, i thought she would get on her ass. And finally, she did go inside the crowd ! Ladies and gentlemens, Ms.Hill, the woman who does not want people to look at her and who does not want to be touched, got in the crowd (with the security ehh, she's a woman after all, people could touch her. And she went to a corner in the seats and she gave a towel to someone. I would have like to be closer to her to get a few words with her, but hey, it was crowded, next time maybe.
Surprising, hey ?
