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chuckroThis was very much a rock concert. Alanis isn’t generally very pinned down by genre (and some of my favorite songs of hers are best performed in an acoustic, intime sort of space), but this was very much done as an electric guitars and giant speakers sort of affair.
Her drummer loves his life—he’s like Animal from the Muppet Show, except a 50-something bald guy. He also apparently needs to be kept safely behind plexiglass, and it’s unclear whether that’s a sound issue or physical protection.
Alanis is not a very good dancer; she mostly does a weird shake n’ shimmy with some head-bobbing. I figured out during the encore, though, that a bunch of her moves make perfect sense if you have long hair to swing around. Alanis is currently sporting a pixie cut.
Also of note that she sent 99% of the concert singing either to stage left or stage right. My best theory is that the spotlight (projected from far behind the audience in an outdoor stage) was so bright that she couldn’t comfortably look in that direction. I suspect she was also having problems with her monitor / earpiece, because she was clearly motioning to someone off in audience right for multiple songs. Or as Jethrien put it, “I’ve got one hand in my pocket / and the other one’s signaling the sound guy.”
All that said, it was a totally fun show. She played all the hits an a couple of the newer tracks, and threw in a few bonus lines (“Melt it down / the way a two- and seven-year-old would do”) that you hope for in a live show. The weather behaved, as we were under an awning and the temperature was pleasant. And while the summerstage isn’t a great venue, it’s a perfectly acceptable one for this sort of show.
(Also of note, my parents were watching ARR, so we got to stay over after the concert and sleep through the hotel breakfast. That was also lovely.)
Her drummer loves his life—he’s like Animal from the Muppet Show, except a 50-something bald guy. He also apparently needs to be kept safely behind plexiglass, and it’s unclear whether that’s a sound issue or physical protection.
Alanis is not a very good dancer; she mostly does a weird shake n’ shimmy with some head-bobbing. I figured out during the encore, though, that a bunch of her moves make perfect sense if you have long hair to swing around. Alanis is currently sporting a pixie cut.
Also of note that she sent 99% of the concert singing either to stage left or stage right. My best theory is that the spotlight (projected from far behind the audience in an outdoor stage) was so bright that she couldn’t comfortably look in that direction. I suspect she was also having problems with her monitor / earpiece, because she was clearly motioning to someone off in audience right for multiple songs. Or as Jethrien put it, “I’ve got one hand in my pocket / and the other one’s signaling the sound guy.”
All that said, it was a totally fun show. She played all the hits an a couple of the newer tracks, and threw in a few bonus lines (“Melt it down / the way a two- and seven-year-old would do”) that you hope for in a live show. The weather behaved, as we were under an awning and the temperature was pleasant. And while the summerstage isn’t a great venue, it’s a perfectly acceptable one for this sort of show.
(Also of note, my parents were watching ARR, so we got to stay over after the concert and sleep through the hotel breakfast. That was also lovely.)
