Panadola Diction

Licky Lee was in a sold-out Sugar Club last Thursday night, and so was I. I was in the audience. She was on the stage, with her band. Her third name is Timotej, a bit like the shampoo, and she has spent winters in India and Nepal, according to Wicklowpedia.

Anyway, it was good, she was good, and it sounded good, but she seemed intent on putting on a “rock concert”, as she put it. The Sugar Club is a terrible place for a rock concert. For anybody who has never been, it’s a small venue with graduated couch & table seating going from the stage to the bar at the back. So there we all were at the “rock concert”, lounging on couches, much to Licky’s dismay. “I’m not the Dalai Lama!” she said, appealing for us to be upstanding, but we just smiled and applauded politely.

For the very last song of the set, ‘Breaking It Up’, a second appeal finally got some people up to dance, and they were then treated to a second (speeded up) airing of ‘I’m Good I’m Gone’, and an encore of A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Can You Kick It’, which was as good as it was unexpected.

Overall, a good show from a likable lady, but hopefully next time she’ll be in a different venue.

Support was from her statuesque fellow Swede, El Perro Del Mar - The Dog of the Sea, in case you didn’t know. Woof.

This isn’t a comment about the post. It’s just to tell you that I’ve tagged you with the Seven Songs meme.

Ooh, I’ve never been tagged before, I feel slightly violated. But pleased. I’ll see what I can do..

Shame it was seated. I think this lady is going to be a star- though I haven’t had the chance to see her live.

R - yes, I think it could have been great(er) if it had been in maybe the Village, or Whelan’s even. Somewhere small but standy. It did strike me that she was quite the talent though, the kind of singer who could sing anything convincingly - twee ballads, upbeat dance stuff, rap, whatever.